Sc. 2.
"If it be too little for your thief," etc.
I quite agree with those who make this part of Abhorson's speech.
"This is a gentle Provost. Seldom when."
Mr. Singer reads 'seldom-when' as one word, and quotes in defence of it seldom-time, any-when, seldom-what; and he might have added seld-when, from Gower's Conf. Amantis. In any case, 'Tis seems wanting before it, as in "'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb" (2 Hen. IV. iv. 4).
"That wounds the unsisting postern with those strokes."
The printer, by a most common error, omitted re in unresisting. Surely the critics in general should have seen this, as Rowe did.