Note 205 — THE MASQUE.
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in cone] Qy. incontinent (i. e. immediately)?—the MS. having had, perhaps, “incon.” A friend suggests that there might have been some abbreviation of contra, or contraries: see what follows; doctor Almanac charges them to do the reverse of what they ought to do, for “to bid ’em sin’s the way to make ’em mend.”