ACT V.
Scene 1. Page 155.
Bast. Away then, with good courage; yet I know,
Our party may well meet a prouder foe.
Mr. Steevens has noticed Dr. Johnson's misconception of this passage; yet it may be doubted whether he has sufficiently simplified the meaning, which is, "yet I know that our party is fully competent to engage a more valiant foe." Prouder has in this place the signification of the old French word preux.