Passages from Shakspeare

*Ang.* We are all frail. *Isab.* Else let my brother die, If not a feodary, but only he Owe, and succeed thy weakness. *Ang.* Nay, women are frail too. *Measure for Measure*, Act. ii. Sc. 4. I should paraphrase Isabella's remarks thus:— "If it be otherwise, if we are not all frail as thou sayest, then let my brother die, unless he be but in the same case as others; if he alone possess and follow thee in that particular frailty to which thou has half confessed." A feodary, I should observe, was an officer of the Court of Wards, who was joined with the escheator and did not act singly; I conceiv…