Note 270 — Part I.—The Roisterers
Henri Van Laun translation
"That spark, who has his fruitless designs upon the bed-ridden rich widow, down to the sucking heiress in her... clout.—Love in a Wood," I. 2.
Mrs. Flippant: "Though I had married the fool, I thought to have reserved the wit as well as other ladies."—Ibid.
Dapperwit: "I will contest with no rival, not with my old rival your coachman."—Ibid.
"She has a complexion like a Holland cheese, and no more teeth left, than such as give a haut goût to her breath."—Ibid. II. 1.