From successary, but purchas'd with my blood.”
The poet doubtless wrote “successry,” which, though not adopted in our language, would be, on many occasions, as here, a much more significant phrase than ancestry.
“The Little French Lawyer.”
Act i. sc. 1. Dinant's speech:—
“Are you become a patron too? 'Tis a new one,
No more on't,” &c.
Seward reads:—
“Are you become a patron too? How long
Have you been conning this speech? 'Tis a new one,” &c.