[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.