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=4. 3. 33 f. Decayes the fore-teeth, that should guard the tongue;=
etc. Cf. _Timber_, ed. Schelling, 13. 24: 'It was excellently said of
that philosopher, that there was a wall or parapet of teeth set in
our mouth, to restrain the petulancy of our words; that the rashness
of talking should not only be retarded by the guard and watch of our
heart, but be fenced in and defended by certain strengths placed in
the mouth itself, and within the lips. '

Professor Schelling quotes Plutarch, _Moralia, de Garrulitate_ 3,
translated by Goodwin: 'And yet there is no member of human bodies
that nature has so strongly enclosed within a double fortification
as the tongue, entrenched within a barricade of sharp teeth, to the
end that, if it refuses to obey and keep silent when reason "presses
the glittering reins" within, we should fix our teeth in it till the
blood comes rather than suffer inordinate and unseasonable din' (4.
223).

=4. 3. 39 Mad-dames. = See variants. The editors have taken out of
the jest whatever salt it possessed, and have supplied meaningless
substitutes.
Gifford followed the same course in his edition of Ford
(see Ford's _Wks. _ 2. 81), where, however, he changes to Mad-dam.
Such gratuitous corruptions are inexplicable. Cf. _Tale Tub_, _Wks. _
6. 172:

Here is a strange thing call'd a lady, a mad-dame.

=4. 3. 45 Their seruants. = A common term for a lover.
Cf. _Sil. Wom. _, _Wks.