Note 344 — ACT III., SCENE I.
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The manner of dating letters from abroad, before the alteration of the calendar, according to the reformation of it by Pope Gregory XIII. In "The Woman's Prize; or, the Tamer Tam'd," by Beaumont and Fletcher [Dyce's edit. vii. 194], Maria says to Petruchio, who had threatened to travel, in order to be rid of her—
"I do commit your reformation; And so I leave you to your stilo novo."
—[Act. iv. sc. 5.]