ne, madam," &c.

The meaning is:--"It shall be a better way, first;--as it is, I will not
give it, or any that you in your present mood would wish."

"The Laws Of Candy."

Act i. Speech of Melitus:--

"Whose insolence and never yet match'd pride
Can by no character be well express'd,
But in her only name, the proud Erota."

Colman's note.

The poet intended no allusion to the word "Erota" itself; but says that
her very name, "the proud Erota," became a character and adage;--as we say,
a Quixote or a Brutus: so to say an "Erota," expressed female pride and
insolence of beauty.

_Ib._ Speech of Antinous:--

"Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd
From _successary_, but purchas'd with my blood."

The poet doubtless wrote "successry," which, though not adopted in our
language, would be, on many occasions, as here, a much more significant
phrase than ancestry.

"The Little French Lawyer."

Act i. sc. 1. Dinant's speech:--

"Are you become a patron too? 'Tis a new one,
No more on't," &c.

Seward reads:--

"Are you become a patron too? _How long_
_Have you been conning this speech?_ 'Tis a new one," &c.

If conjectural emendation like this be allowed, we might venture to read:--

"Are you become a patron _to a new tune_?"

or,--

"Are you become a patron? 'Tis a new _tune_."

_Ib._--

"_Din._ Thou wouldst not willingly
Live a protested coward, or be call'd one?

_Cler._ Words are but words.

_Din._ Nor wouldst thou take a blow?"

Seward's note.

O miserable! Dinant sees through Cleremont's gravity, and the actor is to
explain it. "Words are but words," is the last struggle of affected
morality.

"Valentinian."

Act i. sc. 3.--

It is a real trial of charity to read this scene with tolerable temper
towards Fletcher. So very slavish--so reptile--are the feelings and
sentiments represented as duties. And yet, remember, he was a bishop's
son, and the duty to God was the supposed basis.

Personals, including body, house, home, and religion;--property,
subordination, and inter-community;--these are the fundamentals of society.
I mean here, religion negatively taken,--so that the person be not
compelled to do or utter, in relation of the soul to God, what would be,
in that person, a lie;--such as to force a man to go to church, or to swear
that he believes what he does not believe. Religion, positively taken, may
be a great and useful privilege, but cannot be a right,--we