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Else let my brother die, If not a feodary, but only he Owe and succeed thy weakness.

O am I to live the god's slave? feodary be to Cybele?

Sc. 2., we read: "Senseless bauble, Art thou a feodary for this act, and lookst So virgin-like without?" where feodary clearly means confederate, associate.

Else let my brother die, If not a feodary, but only he Owe, and succeed thy weakness.

A feodary, I should observe, was an officer of the Court of Wards, who was joined with the escheator and did not act singly; I conceive therefore that Shakspeare by this expression indicates an associate; one in the same plight as others; negatively, one who does not stand alone.