Chapter LXIII: Act II

SC. 1. "And why so, my _dear_ lord?--Not for because."

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"Or a half-moon made with a pen.--Who taught _you_ this?"

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"All's true that is mistrusted."

For 'is' it might be better to read _was_. The change was not unusual.

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"Has made thee swell thus.--But I'd say he _had_ not."

_Has_ might seem to have been the poet's word.

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"More, she's a traitor; and Camillo is
A federary with her, and one that knows _her_
_To be_ what she should shame to know herself,
But with her most vile principal."

'Federary' is an unknown word. It may be a printer's error for _federate_; but I rather think--as I find that Malone, followed by Singer and Dyce, reads, and which is also more metrical--that the right word is _fedary_, to be taken in the same sense as in Meas. for Meas. and Cymb. As Polyxenes is styled 'her principal,' the meaning may be that she (and Camillo 'with her') had transferred her allegiance to him.

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"You did mistake,--_No_, no, if I mistake."

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"I would land-damn him."

As 'land-damn' seems to be an unknown term, it might be better to read, with Collier's folio, _lamback_, derived perhaps from _lambiccare_, It. There is also a vulgar term _lambaste_. 'Damn' was probably suggested by the same word in the preceding line.

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SC. 3. "We have always truly served you and beseech _you_."

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"They have been absent. 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells."

We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.'