[23]There is a pun here in the original.

[24]In Holberg's comedy of "Erasmus Montanus," III, 6.

[25]Cf. "The Banquet."

[26]Eccles, 3, 7.

[27]Comical power.

[28]In uncertain battle.

[29]According to the development of these terms in Kierkegaard's previous works, the "absolute" belongs to the ethic, the "relative" to the æsthetic sphere.

[30]Heroine of Mozart's "Don Juan."

[31]Quotation from Wessel's famous comedy of "Love without Stockings," III, 3.

[32]Viz besides the eggs she duly furnishes; Holberg, "The Busy-body," II, 1.