“The Spanish Curate.”
Act iv. sc. 7. Amaranta's speech:—
“And still I push'd him on, as he had been coming.”
Perhaps the true word is “conning,”—that is, learning, or reading, and therefore inattentive.
“Wit Without Money.”
Act i. Valentine's speech:—
“One without substance,” &c.
The present text, and that proposed by Seward, are equally vile. I have endeavoured to make the lines sense, though the whole is, I suspect, incurable except by bold conjectural reformation. I would read thus:—