the two syllables being slurred into one, or rather snatched, or sucked, up into the emphasized 'your.' In all points of view, therefore, Ben's judgment is just; for in this way, the line cannot be read, as metre, without that strong and quick emphasis on 'your' which the sense requires;—and had not the sense required an emphasis on 'your,' the tmesis of the sign of its cases 'of,' 'to,' &c. would destroy almost all boundary between the dramatic verse and prose in comedy:—a lesson not to be rash in conjectural amendments. 1818.
Ib. sc. 4.
'P. jun.' I love all men of virtue, frommy Princess.—
'Frommy,' 'fromme', pious, dutiful, &c.
Act v. sc. 4. Penny-boy sen. and Porter:—
I dare not, will not, think that honest Ben had Lear in his mind in this mock mad scene.
THE NEW INN.
Act I. sc. 1. Host's speech:—