Note 387 — PROLOGUE TO THE DISAPPOINTMENT, OR THE MOTHER IN FASHION. BY MR SOUTHERNE, 1684. SPOKEN BY MR BETTERTON.
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Our author seems to copy himself in this passage. "His old father, in the country, would have given him but little thanks for it, to see him bring down a fine-bred woman, with a lute and a dressing-box, and a handful of money to her portion."—The Wild Gallant, Vol. II. p. 66.