This conduct was censured
by Caesar, who observed that Cato had an eye to the main chance. "It was
the wealth of Hortensius. He lent the young man his wife, that he might
make her a rich widow."--Langhorne's Plutarch, 1838, pp. 539, 547.]
{271}[333] [_Othello_, act i. sc. i, lines 19-24.]
[gf]---- _though with greater latitude_.--[MS. A.]
{272}[gg] ---- _with one foolish woman wed_.--[MS. B.]
[334] [The famous _bed_, measuring twelve feet square, to which an
allusion is made by Shakespeare in _Twelfth Night_, act iii. sc. 2, line
44, was formerly preserved at the Saracen's Head at Ware, in
Hertfordshire. The bed was removed from Ware to the Rye House in 1869.]
[gh]
_His Highness the sublimest of mankind,_
_The greatest, wisest, bravest, [and the] best,_
_Proved by his edicts somewhat blind,_
_Who saw his virtues as they saw the rest_--
_His Highness quite connubially inclined_
_Had deigned that night to be Gulbeyaz' guest_.--[MS. A.]
[335] See Waverley [chap. xx.]
[gi] _May look like what I need not mention here_--[MS. A.]
{273}[gj] _Are better signs if such things can be signed_.--[MS. A.]
[336] [For St.
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