SCÈNE VIII

1. 20. froisser, *rend', *crush'. He means that this law about duelling (referred to above p. 37, 1. 30), though he gives crédit to the intention with which it was framed, has only resulted in making the scaffold glorious, and that now a man of honour has to choose between the infamy of what would be called cowardice if he refuses to fight, and the légal punishment of death if he consents to do so.