Note 474 — ACT I. SCENE I.
Reading edition
a country house, &c.] “The country house here alluded to,” says Malone, “was at Brentford; and in the plays written in 1607, and for some years afterwards, there are frequent allusions to the practice of carrying women of the town thither.” Life of Shakespeare, p. 428 (Sh. by Boswell, vol. ii.)