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.
O miserable! Dinant sees through Cleremont's gravity, and the actor is to explain it. 'Words are but words,' is the last struggle of affected morality.