Sir John Bevil makes the same trial of his son, as Simo of his: and young Bevil makes the same reply with Pamphilus. The only difference in the conduct of the plot in that part is, that Bevil is not apprized of his father’s stratagem by his own servant; but by Humphrey, which, as it shews a sort of half-treachery in him, is an inferior arrangement to that of the Latin poet. NOTE 82. _That Pamphilus had actually married this strange woman._ The expression ξένα, _peregrina_, or _strange woman_, was generally used amongst eastern nations, to signify a woman of light character: it is very frequently employed in the Holy Writings in that sense. _Vide_ Judges, chap. xi. ver. 2; Proverbs, chap. v. ver. 3. 10, 20. Thais, in the Eunuch, speaking of her mother, says, “_Samia mihi mater fuit: ea habitabat Rhodi._” _My mother was born in Samos, and dwelt in Rhodes._ Athenian citizens were not allowed to marry foreign women, even of reputation and virtue; this law was not strictly observed: the penalty for the violation of it was fixed at one thousand drachms. Simo mentions the epithet _peregrina_, as what Chremes said he had heard Glycera called; but does not himself drop the slightest hint against her, but, on the contrary, praises her modest demeanour; as he must have been well aware, that she did not deserve such an epithet, being her opposite neighbour, and having seen her abroad: ξέναι, or _strange women_, when they appeared in public, were obliged to wear striped dresses, to distinguish them from women of innocent conversation. NOTE 83. _Of a wicked mind, one can expect nothing but wicked intentions._ In the Latin, _mala mens, malus animus_. It is not easy to discriminate with accuracy the different meanings the Romans attached to _mens_ and _animus_. Some think that _animus_ meant the _heart_, and _mens_ the faculty of thinking. Grotius has, in this passage, taken those words to signify _conscience_ and _judgment_: but, I think it probable, that the word _animus_ was usually employed when they spoke of the _soul_, and that _mens_ was intended to express what we understand by the word _mind_, when we speak of _greatness of mind_, or _littleness of mind_. _Animus_ was, perhaps, about equivalent to that elegant expression,――_instinctus divinitatis_. NOTE 84. _Exit Sosia._