Chapter 112

“Are you become a patron too? ’Tis a new one, No more on’t,” &c.

Seward reads:—

“Are you become a patron too? _How long_ _Have you been conning this speech?_ ’Tis a new one,” &c.

If conjectural emendation like this be allowed, we might venture to read:—

“Are you become a patron _to a new tune_?”

or,—

“Are you become a patron? ’Tis a new _tune_.”

_Ib._—

“_Din._ Thou wouldst not willingly Live a protested coward, or be call’d one?

_Cler._ Words are but words.

_Din._ Nor wouldst thou take a blow?”

Seward’s note.

O miserable! Dinant sees through Cleremont’s gravity, and the actor is to explain it. “Words are but words,” is the last struggle of affected morality.

“Valentinian.”