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( 34 ) better. More and pour as eaily become mo-er and pow-er, as our and hour become ow-er and how-er; and arm, by a vulgar provincial pronunciation not yet wholly diued becomes a-rum, as eaily as alarm is converted into alarum; two words that undoubtedly had the ame etymology.—But of thee verbal diquiitions enough.

Let us now examine the complaint to which thee notes of Mr. Tyrwhitt's have given birth. "The editor" [i. e. Mr. M.] we are told, "has inerted both Mr. Tyrwhitt's notes, without taking notice of the concluive reply already made to the latter." This reply, I mut inform you, appears to have been made by this agacious remarker himelf. Hinc illæ lacrymæ.—But how tands the fact? The comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona was printed in the year 1786. It hould eem therefore not to have been a crime of very great magnitude not to have ubjoined to Mr. Tyrwhitt's note a reply to it which was made two years afterwards, viz. in 1788. It might however, we hall perhaps be told, have been inerted in the Appendix. But unluckily to this there was an unurmountable objection; which was, that the editor had originally reolved not to ber