attraction is your pretty, petulant, languishing, lasciviously-composed countenance! these amorous smiles, those soul-warming sparkling glances, ardent as those flames that singed the world by heedless Phaeton! in body how delicate,[386] in soul how witty, in discourse how pregnant, in life how wary, in favours how judicious, in day how sociable, and in night how—— O pleasure unutterable! indeed, it is most certain, one man cannot deserve only to enjoy a beauteous woman: but a duchess! in despite of Phœbus, I’ll write a sonnet instantly in praise of her. 357
[Exit.
[349] In the margin of old eds., opposite the title, is printed “Vexat censura columbas.” (Juvenal, Sat. ii. 63.)
[350] So ed. 1.—Ed. 2. “ragged.”
[351] “I suppose this is a word coined from tod, a certain weight of sheep’s wool. He seems willing to intimate that the duke, &c., are mutton-mongers. The meaning of laced mutton is well known.”—Steevens.—Not at all satisfactory.
[352] Old eds. “Howle againe”—printed as part of the text.
[353] So ed. 2.—Ed. 1. “pray.”
[354] “Within herself”—added in ed. 2.
[355] “The church”—added in ed. 2.
[356] “Of”—added in ed. 2.