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( 36 ) he has an excluive privilege to all the nonene to which the commentaries produced by the late editors of Shakpeare have given rie. On this ground, a remark in anwer to one of Dr. Johnon's in the firt act of Troilus and Creida, having been lightly noticed in the late edition, this monopolizer will have it that he mut have been meant; and no uch remark being in fact found in his book, with his wonted decorum he charges the editor with forgery. But trange as it may appear, mot true it is, that there are others now living capable of writing remarks on Shakpeare and his editors, beide himelf, though not with uch a total diregard of decency; and that the obervation in quetion appeared among ome on Mr. Steevens's edition, which were publihed in a micellaneous volume, in 1785.

One other paage only of this elegant and modet performance remains to be noticed. In the firt volume of the late edition of Shakpeare I have mentioned that a pamphlet, which is now avowed by this writer as his production, was uppreed after its original publication, from modety as it hould eem; and that afterwards it was once more given to the world by its author. Nothing, ays the fond parent