Note 166 — ACT III. SCENE I.
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deduct it to days] “A Latinism, deducere, bring it down, or, reduce it to days. This absurdity of consulting the church-book for the age, &c. may be kept in countenance by Beaumont and Fletcher, vol. 6th, p. 248. Indeed there are several passages in this play that resemble some in the Queen of Corinth.”—Gifford.