Note 1066 — SCENE III.
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these men-widwives, &c.] So in The Whore of Babylon, 1607, by Dekker (see note, p. 490): “Doe not you know, mistresse, what Serieants are? ... why they are certaine men-midwiues, that neuer bring people to bed, but when they are sore in labour, that no body els can deliuer them.” Sig. D.