“Of half-a crown a week for pins and puppets.”
“As there is a syllable wanting in the measure here.”—Seward.
A syllable wanting! Had this Seward neither ears nor fingers? The line is
a more than usually regular iambic hendecasyllable.
_Ib._—
“With one man satisfied, with one rein guided;
With one faith, one content, one bed;
_Aged_, she makes the wife, preserves the fame and issue;
A widow is,” &c.
Is “apaid”—contented—too obsolete for B. and F.? If not, we might read it
thus:—
“Content with one faith, with one bed apaid,
She makes the wife, preserves the fame and issue;”—