Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug.
. . . . . .
—but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug!"
This quotation proves clearly, I consider, that dug was meant by Cleopatra, and not dung; and so I considered before the old manuscript correction of Mr. Collier's appeared. The words "an awful" are as clearly to my mind and lawful. I doubt, however, if they will be so acknowledged, as the use of the words "an awful," it may be contended, are countenanced by other passages in Shakspeare; I quote the following.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV. Sc. I.—
"3rd Outlaw. Know then, that some of us are gentlemen,