brakes
“of vice and answer none—Some run from,”
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 1.
39.
(
“ice,”
Cambridge
), Here the meaning of brakes (a word which
was used in sundry significations) has been much disputed. The context, I think, shows that
we ought to understand it in the sense of “engines of
torture.”
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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