T' increase the number of this young man's days.[279]
Compare with this another passage in The Duke of Milan:
Sforza. O you earthly gods,
You second natures, that from your great master,
Who join'd the limbs of torn Hippolytus,
And drew upon himself the Thunderer's envy,
Are taught those hidden secrets that restore
To life death-wounded men![280]
In A Very Woman[281] Paulo, on entering with two surgeons, is thus addressed:
Duke. My hand! You rather