[563] Contraction of "you must."
[564] Given to _Aurelia_ (perhaps rightly) in ed. 2. and
some copies of ed. 1.
[565] "I ha' done," &c.--Old eds.:--
"_Aur._ I ha done; one word, take heede, I ha done."
[566] Regions.--"Marche. A region, _coast_, or
quarter."--_Cotgrave._
[567] Some copies of ed. 1. "Genoa."
[568] Ed. 2. "count."
[569] Ed. 2. "to."
[570] Some copies of ed. 1. "come downe."
[571] A _frotted_ jerkin--a jerkin in which sweet oil had
been rubbed. Cf. _Cynthia's Revels_, v. 2:--
"_Amo._ Is the perfume rich in this jerkin?
_Per._ Taste, smell; I assure you, sir, pure benjamin, the
only spirited scent that ever awaked a Neapolitan nostril.... I
frotted a jerkin for a new-revenued gentleman yielded me three
score crowns but this morning, and the same titillation."
[572] Old eds. "as."
[573] Omitted in some copies of ed. 1.
[574] Old eds. "_Pietro._"
[575] Some copies of ed. 1. "_Lorenzo._"
[576] Some copies of ed. 1. "to liue till."
[577] "O, I have seen ... so patiently" (ll. 180-202).--This
passage was added in ed. 2.
[578] Some copies read "men."
[579] Old ed. "conceale."
[580] Some copies read "men."
[581] Where the bawdy-houses were located.
AN[582] IMPERFECT ODE, BEING BUT ONE STAFF,
SPOKEN BY THE PROLOGUE.
To wrest each hurtless thought to private sense
Is the foul use of ill-bred impudence:
Immodest censure now grows wild,
All over-running.
Let innocence be ne'er so chaste,
Yet at the last
She is defil'd
With too nice-brainèd cunning.
O you of fairer soul,
Control 10
With an Herculean arm
This harm;
And once teach all old freedom of a pen,
Which still must write of fools, whiles't writes of men!
[582] The "imperfect ode" and the epilogue are not found in some
copies of ed. 1.
EPILOGUS.
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