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( 15 ) for—"cannot I help;" in p. 174, "this paper," "for his paper;" in Vol. II. p. 70, hould, for hall; in p. 143, dipos'd, for betow'd; in p. 157, "Ay, let none enter," for—"Ay, and let none enter;" and in p. 190, therefore, for thereof.

It is not an incurious peculation to conider how many errors the writer to whom I am indebted for the above lit, would have been guilty of in collating and printing one hundred thouand lines. He tells us himelf that ome remarks which he publihed a few years ago, "have been repreented as the mot incorrect publication that ever appeared, and that, from the lit of errata in the book itelf, and the additional one given in another pamphlet, the charge does not eem to be without foundation." We have een that in collating thirteen paages he has committed, if not three, certainly two errors; if therefore he had undertaken to collate one hundred thouand lines, his inaccuracies according to the mot moderate calculation would only have amounted to about.

The next high crime and midemeanor with which the late editor of Shakpeare is charged, is,