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:—