1. He mocks himself of me.] Melantha, like some modern coxcombs, uses the idiom as well as the words of the French language.
  2. Dangerfield.] A dramatic bully, whose sword and habit became proverbial. "This gentleman, appearing with his mustaccios, according to the Turkish manner, Cordubee hat, and strange out-of-the-way clothes, just as if one had been dressed up to act Captain Dangerfield in the play, &c." Life of Sir Dudley North.

EPILOGUE.

Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation,

And led you all the way to reformation;

Not with dull morals, gravely writ, like those,

Which men of easy phlegm with care compose,—

Your poets, of stiff words and limber sense,

Born on the confines of indifference;

But by examples drawn, I dare to say,

From most of you who hear and see the play.