Note 505:A — Chapter XII
Reading edition
"Alon. If thou beest Prospero, Give us particulars of thy preservation: How thou hast met us here, who three hours since Were wreck'd upon this shore."
Act v. sc. 1. Reed's Shakspeare, vol. iv. pp. 160, 161.
"Alon. What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours."
Act v. p. 163.