Note 65 — ACT III. SCENE I.
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the better term] “Ladies of easy virtue were, in the time of our poet, frequently called termers, from their visiting the city when the courts of justice were open, and the inns of court filled with young lawyers: to this, I conceive, Witgood alludes.” Editor of 1816.—Witgood seems to use the word term with a playful allusion to the double meaning of suitors.