The sense I believe is, _What he has in his
heart_ is waiting there _to help us to break his neck_.
III.iii.57 (386,8) Rather than envy you] _Envy_ is here taken at large
for _malignity_ or ill intention.
III.iii.64 (386,9) season'd office] All _office established_ and
_settled_ by time, and made familiar to the people by long use.
III.iii.96 (387,1) has now at last] Read rather,
--has _now at last_ [instead of _as now at last_].
III.iii.97 (387,2) not in the presence] _Not_ stands again for _not
only_.
III.iii.114 (388,3) My dear wife's estimate] I love my country beyond
the rate at which I _value my dear wife_.
III.iii.127 (389,4)
Have the power still
To banish your defenders'; till, at length,
Your ignorance, (which finds not, till it feels)]
_Still retain the power of banishing your defenders, till your
undiscerning folly, which can foresee no consequences, leave none in the
city but yourselves, who are always labouring your own destruction._
It is remarkable, that, among the political maxims of the speculative
Harrington, there is one which he might have borrowed from this speech.
_The people_, says he, _cannot see, but they can feel_. It is not much
to the honour of the people, that they have the same character of
stupidity from their enemy and their friend. Such was the power of our
authour's mind, that he looked through life in all its relations private
and civil.
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