You _show too_ great distraction.--

V.ii.108 (128,7) But with my heart the other eye doth see] I think it

should be read thus,

But _my heart with_ the other eye doth see.

V.ii.113 (128,8) A proof of strength she could not publish more] She

could not publish a stronger proof.

V.ii.125 (129,1) I cannot conjure, Trojan] That is, I cannot raise

spirits in the form of Cressida.

V.ii.141 (129,2) If there be rule in unity itself] I do not well

understand what is meant by _rule in unity_. By _rule_ our author, in

this place as in others, intends _virtuous restraint, regularity of

manners, command of passions and appetites_. In Macbeth,

He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause

Within the belt of rule.--

But I know not how to apply the word in this sense to _unity_. I read,

If there be rule in _purity_ itself,

Or, If there be rule in _verity_ itself.

Such alterations would not offend the reader, who saw the state of the

old editions, in which, for instance, a few lines lower, _the almighty

sun_ is called _the almighty fenne_.--Yet the words may at last mean, If

there be _certainty_ in _unity_, if it be a _rule_ that _one is one_.

V.ii.144 (130,3) Bi-fold authority!] This is the reading of the quarto.

The folio gives us,

_By foul_ authority!--

There is _madness_ in that disquisition in which a man reasons at once

_for_ and _against himself upon authority_ which he knows _not to be

valid_. The quarto is right.

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