Lies my safe way.”
Seward's note and alteration to—
“'Twixt the cold bears, far from the raging lion”—
This Mr. Seward is a blockhead of the provoking species. In his itch for correction, he forgot the words—“lies my safe way!” The bear is the extreme pole, and thither he would travel over the space contained between it and “the raging lion.”
“The Pilgrim.”
Act iv. sc. 2.—
Alinda's interview with her father is lively, and happily hit off; but this scene with Roderigo is truly excellent. Altogether, indeed, this play holds the first place in B. and F.'s romantic entertainments, Lustspiele, which collectively are their happiest performances, and are only inferior to the romance of Shakespeare in the As You Like It, Twelfth Night, &c.
Ib.—
“Alin. To-day you shall wed Sorrow,