[212] Eds. 1. and 3. "protest ignorant."--Ed. 2. "prote ignorance." [213] So eds. 1. and 3.--Ed. 2. "Not _one eminently_." [214] Old eds. give:-- "_Gon._ Quicke, ist not? _Gra._ Ist not Fawne Why," &c. [215] Eds. 1. and 3. "Yet let me _be_ the loyal," &c. [216] Ed. 2. "sentious." [217] Ed. 3. "every." [218] Eds. 1. and 2. "anexou e ampexou."--Ed. 3. "anechon, eapechon." The reference is to the maxim of Epictetus (reported by Aulus Gellius, xvii. 19)--'Anechou kai Apechou. [219] Virg., _Æn._ i. 135. [220] Eds. 1. and 2. read:--"Entreates? What (I thing valules) am not, Worthie but to graunt," &c. Ed. 3. and some copies of ed. 1. give:--"Entreates? What I thinke valulesse and not Worthy but to graunt," &c. [221] Old form of "digest." ACT IV. SCENE I. _Palace of the Duke of Urbin._ _Enter_ HERCULES _and_ GARBETZA. _Herc._ Why, 'tis a most well-in-fashion affection, Donna Garbetza. Your knight, Sir Amorous, is a man of a most unfortunate back, spits white, has an ill breath; at three, after dinner, goes to the bath, takes the diet, nay, which is more, takes tobacco; therefore, with great authority, you may cuckold him. _Gar._ I hope so; but would that friend my brother discover me--would he wrong himself to prejudice me-- _Herc._ No prejudice, dear Garbetza: his brother your husband, right; he cuckold his eldest brother, true; he gets her with child, just. 11 _Gar._ Sure there's no wrong in right, true, and just? _Herc._ And, indeed, since the virtue of procreation growed hopeless in your husband, to whom should you rather commit your love and honour to, than him that is most like and near your husband, his brother? But are you assured your friend and brother rests entirely constant solely to you? _Gar._ To me? O Fawn, let me sigh it with joy into thy bosom, my brother has been wooed by this and that and t'other lady, to entertain them (for I ha' seen their letters); but his vow to me, O Fawn! is most immutable, unfeigning, peculiar, and indeed deserved. 23 _Enter_ PUTTOTTA _and a_ Page. PUTTOTTA _with a letter in her hand_.