+Elv.+ Be not dismay'd, Fernando, Since I profess this a mere act of duty; Another duty may Elvira move To reinflame on better grounds her love. +Don J.+ [_ironically._] Blanca, I fear you'll hardly be persuaded To give yours to Don Zancho; but a brother For once may play the tyrant. Give it him: It must be so. [_They join hands._ +Don F.+ I now renounce old maxims: having you, Elvira, I am sure the very best proves true. +Chi.+ Hold there, I beg you, sir: that will appear By that time you have married been a year. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [17] Without any sufficient reason, and to the evident injury of the metre, of which the author has nowhere been very careful, he here and elsewhere preferred the Spanish word _capricho_, to the English word _caprice_.--_Collier._ [18] Dodsley and Reed very absurdly gave this line to Don Fernando, when it is evidently a reply by Don Julio to the request of his friend. The old copy did not mislead the former editors.--_Collier._ [19] _Cauls_ are little membranes, found on some children, encompassing the head, when born. The vulgar opinion has generally been, that every person possessed of one of these _cauls_, whether originally belonging to him, or obtained by purchase, would be fortunate, and escape dangers. "Lampridius tells us, that the midwives sold _cauls_ at a good price to the advocates and pleaders of his time; it being an opinion, that while they had this about them, they should carry with them a force of persuasion which no judge could withstand: the canons forbid the use of it, because some witches and sorcerers, it seems, had abused it."--See ["Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," 1870, iii., 139-42.] Sir T. Brown ("Vulgar Errors," b. v., ch. 21) quotes "the life of Antonius delivered by Spartianus" on the subject. The caul, a "sillyhow" (as Sir T. Brown terms it), is still considered a preservative against danger, and especially against drowning. Notices of the sale of them used to be daily posted on the Royal Exchange, and they are bought by captains of ships and others going to sea, and great prices given for them. The _Times_ newspaper of March 17, 1827, has the following advertisement:--"A child's caul, well worth £20, to be sold for £14. Apply at Academy," &c.--_Collier._ [20] He calls him Sir Galor in reference to the character this knight sustained in the old romances. He was sometimes known by other names.--_Collier._ [More properly, Sir _Galaor_. He was a brother of Amadis of Gaul.] [21] [Old copy, _lady whom_, which injures the metre. The latter, however, is not very regular or correct in this play.] [22] _Herself_, omitted by Dodsley and Reed.--_Collier._ [23] _Almost_ omitted by Dodsley and Reed.--_Collier._ [24] [Old copy _into_.] [25] Or _pantofle_. In "Damon and Pithias" [iv. 67,] we have seen it called _pantacle_.--_Collier._ THE MARRIAGE NIGHT. _Edition._