—with one breed apaid—
that is, satisfied with one set of children, in opposition to—
A widow is a Christmas-box, &c.
Colman's note on Seward's attempt to put this play into metre.
The editors, and their contemporaries in general, were ignorant of any but the regular iambic verse. A study of the Aristophanic and Plautine metres would have enabled them to reduce B. and F. throughout into metre, except where prose is really intended.
THE HUMOROUS LIEUTENANT.
Act I. sc. 1. Second Ambassador's speech:—
—When your angers, Like so many brother billows, rose together,
And, curling up your foaming crests, defied, &c.