Note 157 — Chapter IV

This reminds one of Alice's subtraction sum. "Take a bone from a dog. What remains?... The dog's temper would remain" (Through the Looking-Glass, chap. ix.). A somewhat different and more sombre turn of thought than the above was suggested to Southey's Dr Dove by the resemblance between the words. "Woman," he says, "evidently meaning either man's woe—or abbreviated from woe to man, because by woman was woe brought into the world" (The Doctor, chap. ccviii.).