p. 302 _Starters._ .... cf. also _The Lucky Chance_, I, i: ‘I am no Starter.’ (Vol. III, p. 193), and note on that passage, p. 485. _Lucky Chance_ note: _Starter._ This slang word usually means a milksop, but here it is equivalent to ‘a butterfly’, ‘a weathercock’--a man of changeable disposition. A rare use. * * * * * * * * * Errors and Irregularities: The Widow Ranter In the Notes, alternation between .’ and ‘. at paragraph-end is as printed. The abbreviation “cf.” is always lower-case. Editor’s Introduction and she sinks into his arms to die [his ams] The Widow Ranter [Points to _Dull._ _Whim._ _Whiff_, and _Tim._ [_Dull,_ _Whim,_] [_correction based on ordinary punctuation of this text_] thy Friend that kept thee Company all the while [taht] [Goes in. / [All exeunt. [_bracket before “All exeunt” added for consistency in e-text_] Critical Notes p. 261 _a Bob._ [p 261] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE YOUNGER BROTHER; OR, THE AMOROUS JILT. ARGUMENT. Mirtilla, the Amorous Jilt, who had once been attached to George Marteen, the Younger Brother, married for a convenience the clownish Sir Morgan Blunder. Prince Frederick, who had seen and fallen in love with her during a religious ceremony in a Ghent convent, follows her to England. They meet accidentally and she promises him a private interview. George Marteen had recommended a page to Mirtilla, and the lad is his sister Olivia in disguise. Mirtilla, although she falls in love with her ‘smooth-chin’d boy’, receives Prince Frederick, but the house wherein she lodges catches fire that night, and it is George Marteen who, in spite of the fact that he knows his friend the Prince is with her, procures a ladder and rescues the lady at some danger to himself. The Prince is able to escape by the same way, and he then carries Mirtilla to his own lodgings, where feigning to be ill with fatigue and terror she begs her lover to leave her to repose. This is done with the idea of entertaining her page, and on Frederick’s approach she conceals Olivia, who thus creeps off unseen, beneath the train of her gown, whilst she herself retires with the amorous Prince. None the less, Mirtilla still pursues Olivia, and eventually Frederick discovers she is a wanton jilt, as he surprises her leading the page to her bed. He is, however, reconciled when Mirtilla discovering to her amaze that the lad is a woman reveals this fact to the Prince to confound him, but afterwards avowing her frailty, throws herself on Frederick’s generosity. Olivia has been promised by her old father, Sir Rowland Marteen, to Welborn, whom she has never seen. On meeting Welborn she falls in love with him, without knowing who he is, and he, also, whilst ignorant of her name, is soon enamoured of her in turn. Prince Frederick