Note 840 — SCENE II.
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so strangely] i. e. so coyly—with such an appearance of coldness. In Johnson’s Dict. (even in Todd’s ed.), the lines from Shakespeare’s Two Gent. of Verona, act i. sc. 2.
“She makes it strange; but she would be best pleas’d
To be so anger’d with another letter,”—
are absurdly cited for an example of the word strange in the sense of remote.