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( 30 ) Vol. III. is there any thing of his; and in p. 27 of Vol. III. I am o far from adopting his comment, that I have maintained a poition directly ubverive of it.

I hall now, my dear Sir, trouble you with a very few more words.—In The Two Gentlemen of Verona, p. 120, I have inerted two notes of my late mot repectable friend Mr. TyrrwhittTyrwhitt [sic], in which he proves that Shakpeare ometimes takes a liberty in extending certain words to complete the meaure. Thus, in The Comedy of Errors,

"where, (ays he,) ome editors, being unnecearily alarmed for the metre, have endeavoured to help it by a word of their own,—

"So, (he adds,) country is made a triyllable.

T. N. Act. I. c. ii.

"The like of him. Know't thou this country?"

Remembrance, quadriyllable.

T. N. Act. I. c. i.

"And lating in her ad remembrance,"

Angry,