He is now grown reasonable enough
to determine, that having done so much evil he will do no more; that he
will not fight against the country which he has already injured; but as
life is not longer supportable, he will die in a just cause, and die
with the obscurity of a man who does not think himself worthy to be
remembered.
V.i.9 (271,3) to put on] Is to _incite_, to _instigate_.
V.i.14 (272,4) To second ills with ills, each elder worse] For this
reading all the later editors have contentedly taken,
--each worse than other,
without enquiries whence they have received it. Yet they know, or might
know, that it has no authority. The original copy reads,
--each elder worse,
The last deed is certainly not the oldest, but Shakespeare calls the
_deed_ of an _elder_ man an _elder deed_.
V.i.15 (272,5) And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift] [T:
dreaded, to] This emendation ia followed by HANMER. Dr. WARBURTON reads,
I know not whether by the printer's negligence,
And make them _dread_, to the doers' thrift.
There seems to be no very satisfactory sense yet offered. I read, but
with hesitation,
And make them _deeded_, to the doers' thrift.
The word _deeded_ I know not indeed where to find; but Shakespeare has,
in another sense _undeeded_, in _Macbeth_:
"--my sword
"I sheath again _undeeded_."--
I will try again, and read thus,
--others you permit
To second ills with ills, each other worse,
And make them _trade it_, to the doers' thrift.
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