Note 118 — SCENE III.
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froating] “May mean freting or adorning with fretwork. But Witgood’s vices, according to his own confession in a former scene, were those of sensuality, and not of foppery; and it is possible that this was the demand of the keeper of some brothel,” &c. &c. Editor of 1816.—Perhaps so; but, I think, froating means here nothing more than dressing up, repairing.