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forth’. _The Debauchee_ (1677), Act II, i: Mrs. Saleware speaks of buying ‘fine clothes, and tours, and Points and knots.’ _The Younger Brother_ (1696), Act V, the last scene, old Lady Youthly anxiously asks her maid, ‘is not this Tour too brown?’ During the reign of Mary II and particularly in the time of Anne a Tower meant almost exclusively the high starched head-dress in vogue at that period.

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Errors and Irregularities: The Younger Brother

In the Notes, alternation between .’ and ‘. at paragraph-end is as printed. The abbreviation “cf.” is always lower-case.

Dedication

for tho suffering Merit [_elsewhere tho’ with apostrophe_]

The Younger Brother

a fighting, whining Lover’s Company [fighing] Sir _Morgan_, and Sir _Merlin_ [_“and” non-Italic (emphatic)_] _Geo._ [to _Teresia_.] [_italics/roman reversed in stage direction_] [Smiling. [Exit. [_bracket before “Exit” added for consistency in e-text_]

Notes on the Text

p. 338, l. 10 [p. 331]

Critical Notes

is perhaps the locus classical for mohocking [_text unchanged: usual term is “locus classicus”_] Wills’ Coffee-house [_body text has Will’s_]

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