Note 1035 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
Attend the gentlewoman] Part of the present scene,—from the entrance of the Mother to these words,—is given, with a few omissions, in Specimens of Engl. Dram. Poets, by Lamb, who observes, “This is one of those scenes which has the air of being an immediate transcript from life. Livia, the ’good neighbour,' is as real a creature as one of Chaucer’s characters. She is such another jolly Housewife as the Wife of Bath.” P. 155.