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( 29 ) editor of that book; in K. John, Act II. c. ii. I am repreented as having adopted a corrupt reading introduced by the ame editor,—"run on," intead of the authentick reading—roam on; in a paSS undefinedage in King Henry V. Act III. c. i. I am untruly repreented as reading with the ame copy,—" You noblet Englih;" and till further, (ave reverence, as our author ays, of the word,) to hew the amazing acutenes and unerring accuracy of this hypercritick, the paage is tated as being in the Firt Part of King Henry IV. as another pa{ls}}age which is quoted from Meaure for Meaure, is to be found in The Comedy of Errors.

As a few trifling emendations made by the ignorant editor of the econd folio, have been adopted, o on the principle already tated the very few obervations of this Remarker that were entitled to any notice, have been admitted into the late edition. Thee adopted remarks are to be found, ays their author, "in Vol. II. 11, 256, 491, 507; III. 27, 77, 316, 394; IV. 497, 504; VI. 146, 273; V. 459; [which is correctly placed after Vol. VI.] VIII. 634." And here we have another pecimen of this Remarker's extraordinary accuracy; for lo! neither in p. 256 of Vol. II. nor in p. 316 of Vol.