Note 73 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
Smile at lovers' perjuries.
Ridet hoc, inquam, Venus ipsa.
It would be as well if the queen of love had been a little more fastidious on this subject. Her facility, I fear, has done much mischief, as lovers of all ages have availed themselves of it: but she had it from her father, whose laxity of principle is well known:
—————perjuria ridet amantûm Jupiter.
Gifford.