... “with one breed apaid”—
that is, satisfied with one set of children, in opposition to,—
“A widow is a Christmas-box,” &c.
Colman’s note on Seward’s attempt to put this play into metre.
The editors, and their contemporaries in general, were ignorant of any but
the regular iambic verse. A study of the Aristophanic and Plautine metres
would have enabled them to reduce B. and F. throughout into metre, except
where prose is really intended.
“The Humorous Lieutenant.”