[250] Ed. 2. “hir.”
[251] Ed. 1. “heard some so try.”
[252] Omitted in eds. 1. and 3.
[253] Eds. 1. and 3. “cuckolds, and decently and stately enough.”
[254] I have followed the reading of ed. 2. Eds. 1. and 3. read:—“O that we could get one another with child, Fawn, or like flies,” &c.
[255] The reader will recall a famous passage of Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici:—“I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.” Montaigne has some reflections of a similar kind. See also the complaint in Euripides’ Hippolytus, ll. 616-24.
[256] “Might”—omitted in ed. 1.
[257] “Hams”—omitted in eds. 1. and 3.
[258] Ed. 1. “face.”—Ed. 3. “fate.”
[259] So ed. 3.—Eds. 1. and 2. “neglecst.”