Now, if you could wear a mind
Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise
That, which, to appear itself, must not yet be,
But by self-danger]
To wear a dark mind, is to carry a mind impenetrable to the search of
others. _Darkness_ applied to the _mind_ is _secrecy_, applied to the
_fortune_ is _obscurity_. The next lines are obscure. _You must_, says
Pisanio, _disguise that_ greatness, _which, to appear_ hereafter _in its
proper form_, cannot yet appear without great _danger to itself_. (see
1765, VII, 329, 6)
III.iv.149 (230,5) full of view] With opportunities of examining your
affairs with your own eyes.
III.iv.155 (230,6) Though peril to my modesty, not death on't,/I would
adventure] I read,
_Through_ peril--
_I would for such means adventure_ through _peril of my modesty_; I
would risque every thing but real dishonour.