Note 459 — SCENE III.
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scorn’d the motion] Here S. P., an annotator in Dodsley’s Old Plays, wishes unnecessarily to read “mention.” Middleton has the same expression elsewhere; and so in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Cupid’s Revenge, act iv. sc. 3.
“3 Cit. You had best
Go peach; do, peach!
2 Cit. Peach? I scorn the motion.”