Note 127 — ACT II.
Reading edition
This beautiful line, which ought, says Mr. W——, to be written in gold, is imitated in the New Sophonisba:
"Oh! Sophonisba; Sophonisba, oh! Oh! Narva; Narva, oh!"
The author of a song called Duke upon Duke hath improved it:
"Alas! O Nick! O Nick, alas!"
Where, by the help of a little false spelling, you have two meanings in the repeated words.