Note 146 — SCENE V.
Reading edition
longer day] “Dampit means to insinuate, I conceive, that he had borrowed money of him, and only called to postpone the payment.” Editor of 1816.—
“You know this meeting
Was for the creditors to give longer day.”
Brome’s City Wit, act i. sc. 1.—Five New Playes, 1653.