Note 264 — Part I.—The Roisterers
Henri Van Laun translation
As Jupiter is departing, on the plea of daylight, Alemena says to him: "But you and I will draw our curtains close. Extinguish daylight, and put out the sun. Come back, my lord.... You have not yet laid long enough in bed To warm your widowed side."
—Act II. 2.
Compare Plautus's Roman matron and Molière's honest Frenchwoman with this expansive female (Louis XIV and Mme. de Montespan were not very decent either. See "Mémoires de Saint-Simon.")—Tr.