Note 474 — ACT III.

“This fantastical cohibition against the freedom of Nature in this part, makes me reflect upon as inconvenient a restraint (deserving but a collateral insertion) imposed upon the reverse of this and the benefit we receive from the egestions of Port Esquiline. For the Guineans are very careful [ne pardant], and wondered much at the Netherlanders’ rusticity and impudence.... The Irish are much of the same opinion in this point of unnatural restraint, whereas the Romans, by an edict of Claudius the Emperor, most consonant to the law of Nature, at all times and in all places, upon a just necessity, freely challenged the benefit of Nature.”—Bulwer’s Artificial Changeling, ed. 1650, p. 220.