rhyming an hour before--why, pray, should not Signorina Capulet have
had a few previous
affaires du coeur
? Depend upon it, she had; for
was she not already past thirteen?
In like manner, I dare say that a deal passed between Desdemona and
Cassio that the honest Moor never knew of; and that Lucrece was
probably very pleasant and agreeable to Tarquin, as a well-bred
hostess should be; and that Helen had that little affair with Theseus
before she ever thought of Paris; and that if Cleopatra died for love