Note 1049 — ACT III. SCENE I.
Reading edition
white boys] There is a play on words here: “white boy” was often used as a term of endearment;
“And that’s to talk of her white boy, she’s fond on.”
Brome’s New Academy, p. 7 (Five New Playes, 1659.)
Reading edition
white boys] There is a play on words here: “white boy” was often used as a term of endearment;
“And that’s to talk of her white boy, she’s fond on.”
Brome’s New Academy, p. 7 (Five New Playes, 1659.)