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( 28 ) publihed. By turning over the pages of my work, as I have contantly noticed from whence every emendation was taken, this lit was eaily formed; but it has been exhibited with that inaccuracy which might have been expected; for in The Merchant of Venice Act II. c. iii. I am repreented as having adopted a corrupt reading found in the econd folio, ("If a chritian did not play the knave, and get thee," &c.) though I have expresly written a note to hew that this reading was the offspring of ignorance in the editor