Note 269 — ACT V. SCENE I.
Reading edition
To call you judges doth not suit your years,
Nor heads and beards shew more antiquity;—] “Mr. M. Mason reads,
To call you judges doth not suit your years,
Nor heads; and brains shew more antiquity.
It is evident that he did not comprehend the sense, which, though ill conceived and harshly expressed, is,—You have not the years of judges, nor do your heads and beards (old copy, brains) shew more of age.”—Gifford.