Note 46 — ACT I.
Reading edition
The author has not been very strict in the observance of his metre in any part of the play, and in this respect the changes he made in the third edition were sometimes injurious. Thus in the two earlier copies this line, which would have read very well if in had been substituted for during, is given as follows—
"And what was done in this parenthesis."
It was a point gained, however, to get rid of the figure.—Collier.