Note 988 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
The place I speak of, &c.] See Malone’s Essay on the Origin of The Tempest, reprinted in vol. xv. of his Shakespeare (by Boswell). At p. 425 of the Appendix to that tract, Malone, having occasion to notice the present passage, says, that Any Thing for a Quiet Life “appears from internal evidence to have been written about the year 1619.”