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( 14 ) The ingle remark here neceary to be made is, that the fact is not o. The only authentick copy of this play, the folio of 1623, which is now before me, exhibits the line as I have printed it.

5. Vol. II. p. 477. A Midummer-Night's Dream.

"Through the foret have I gone, "But Athenian found I none."

"All the old editions (we are again intructed) read—find."

Here we have another intance of dogmatical and preumptuous ignorance; and the ame hort anwer will erve. The fact is not o. The copy of A Midummer-Night's Dream, printed by Fiher, which is in ome places preferable to that printed by Roberts, which lat appears to have been followed in the folio, reads—"found I none," as I have printed the line.

The eight retorations which I am now enabled to add to thoe I have already made in the text, are thee: In Vol. 1. p. 80, I have inadvertently followed former editors in printing "if thou be pleas'd," for—"if you be pleas'd;" in p. 140 of the ame volume, " more precious," for—"mot precious;" in p. 155, "I cannot help," for