“A Wife for a Month”
Act iv. sc. 1. Alphonso’s speech:—
“Betwixt the cold bear and the raging lion
Lies my safe way.”
Seward’s note and alteration to—
“’Twixt the cold bears, far from the raging lion”—
This Mr. Seward is a blockhead of the provoking species. In his itch for correction, he forgot the words—“lies my safe way!” The bear is the extreme pole, and thither he would travel over the space contained between it and “the raging lion.”