Dryden, Wife of Bath's Tale.

I have printed my own conjecture e'en. Hanmer read ev'n, and yet Tyrrwhitt probably was right, frailty being meant.


"And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;

And she, mistaken, seems to doat on me."

I quite agree with Mr. Dyce in reading As for 'And' in the second line. These words are confounded even at the present day.


Sc. 3.

"I had such a leg; and so sweet a breath to sing."

I suspect 'leg'; for what has it to do here? and Sir Andrew had already praised his own leg.