Note 417 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
imposterous] i. e. deceitful, cheating. The word occurs in several of our early writers. Dodsley and his editors chose to give the line thus:
“For when th’art known to be a whore, impostress.”
Reading edition
imposterous] i. e. deceitful, cheating. The word occurs in several of our early writers. Dodsley and his editors chose to give the line thus:
“For when th’art known to be a whore, impostress.”