In Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, Viola declares: "We men may say more, swear more, but indeed Our shows are more than will; for still we prove Much in our vows but little in our love." (see Act 2, Scene 4; readily available at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/12night-table.html). It seems to me that the phrase "Our shows are more than will" may have suffered from a transcription error. Twelfth Night has been transmitted only in the First Folio (no quarto versions of this play exist). In transcribing a manuscript to print for the First Folio, "n'ore" (indicating "no more" or "not more") might easily be mistaken for "more". The former provides a much more coherent sense of the phrase within its circumstances - from the specific speech, through its context in the play, to Shakespeare's over-all themes and historical situation. For a discussion of the broader context of will, love, and persons in Twelfth Night, see Section IV.C of "Sense in Communication," available at www.galbithink.org Has anyone found in an early modern English manuscript the phrase "n'ore" as a contraction for "no more"? Thanks for any help. Douglas Galbi