Chapter 18

_Malcolm_. 'Tis his main hope: For where there is _advantage to be given_, Both more and less have given him the revolt; And none serve with him but constrained things, Whose hearts are absent too.

The impropriety of the expression _advantage to be given_, instead of _advantage given_, and the disagreeable repetition of the word _given_ in the next line incline me to read,

--where there is _a'vantage_ to be _gone_, Both more and less have given him the revolt.

_Advantage_ or _'vantage_, in the time of Shakespeare, signified _opportunity_.

_More and less_ is the same with _greater and less_. So in the interpolated Mandeville, a book of that age, there is a chapter of India the more and the less.

NOTE XLIV.