Note 298 — ACT II. SCENE I.
Reading edition
And fed upon thee, &c.] Old ed.
“And fed upon thee: good Mat. (if you please) so base as
Scorne to spread wing amongst these.”
Mr. Collier, in a note on the last ed. of Dodsley’s Old Plays, first made the alteration which I have adopted: as Bellafront, he observes, here uses the contraction Mat, so her husband presently calls her Front.