Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.

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Title: Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
Author: Plautus, Titus Maccius.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and T. Child ...,; 1694.
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Scene the Fifth.

Palestra was separated from her Companion, first by the greatness of her Fright, which made her suppose her drown'd; then by the different ways they took through the Cliffs and Precipices; and this makes her ap∣pear alone upon the Stage. What she says is very na∣tural for one of her Circumstances, and agreeable to the Doctrine and Religion of her time.

Pag. 160. l. 26. I was born a Gentlewoman, it avails nothing; I'm more miserable than if born a Slave.] These Words seem to have been spoken with no other Design than to express Palestra's concern at this time, and they appear only the natural effects of her Passion; but the Poet design'd 'em a Preparation towards the main Inci∣dent, her Discovery.