[Pleas'd you to do't at peril of your soul,
Were equal poize of sin and charity]
The reasoning is thus: Angelo asks, whether there might _not be
a charity in sin to save this brother_. Isabella answers, that
_if Angelo will save him, she will stake her soul that it were
charity, not sin_. Angelo replies, that if Isabella would _save
him at the hazard of her soul, it would be not indeed no sin,
but a sin to which the charity would be equivalent_.
II.iv.73 (56,7) [And nothing of your answer] I think it should be
read,
_And nothing of_ yours _answer_.
You, and whatever is _yours_, be exempt from penalty.
II.iv.86 (56,9) [Accountant to the law upon that pain] _Pain_ is here
for _penalty, punishment_.
II.iv.90 (57,2) [But in the loss of question,] The _loss_ of
question I do not well understand, and should rather read,
_But in the_ toss _of question_.
In the _agitation_, in the _discussion_ of the question. To _toss_
an argument is a common phrase.
II.iv.106 (57,4) [a brother dy'd at once] Perhaps we should read,
_Better it were, a brother died_ for _once,
Than that a sister, by redeeming him.
Should die_ for _ever_.
II.iv.123 (58,6) [Owe, and succeed by weakness] To _owe_ is, in this
place, to _own_, to _hold_, to have possession.
II.iv.125 (59,7) [the glasses where they view themselves; Which are
as easily broke, as they make forms] Would it not be better to
read,
----take _forms_.
II.iv.128 (59,8) [In profiting by them] In imitating them, in taking
them for examples.