If conjectural emendation like this be allowed, we might venture to read:—
“Are you become a patron to a new tune?”
or,—
“Are you become a patron? 'Tis a new tune.”
Ib.—
“Din. Thou wouldst not willingly
Live a protested coward, or be call'd one?
Cler. Words are but words.
Din. Nor wouldst thou take a blow?”
Seward's note.