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CRITICAL CONJECTURAL, AND

EXPLANATORY,

UPON THE

PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE;

RESULTING FROM

A COLLATION OF THE EARLY COPIES,

WITH THAT OF

JOHNSON AND STEEVENS,

EDITED BY

ISAAC REED, Esq.

TOGETHER WITH

SOME VALUABLE EXTRACTS FROM THE MSS.

OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN, LORD CHEDWORTH.

DEDICATED TO

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, Esq.

By E. H. SEYMOUR.

VOL. II

LONDON:

Printed by J. Wright, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell;

FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; LONGMAN, HURST, REES,
AND ORME; F. AND C. RIVINGTON ; W. J. AND J. RICHARD-
SON; CUTHELL AND MARTIN: T. EGERTON; R. FAULDER;
VERNOR AND HOOD; J. CARPENTER; R. H. EVANS; s.
BAGSTER; AND J. ASPERNE.

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256. "Be not out with me."

i. e. Be not out of humour with me; be not unkindly disposed towards me: the phrase is still current in Ireland.

258. -There have sat."

This corrupt use of the imperfect past tense for the perfect, sitten, has become so general as to make propriety almost obsolete.

"That Tyber trembled," &c.

Insomuch that Tyber trembled, &c. as in Macbeth:

"There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cried murder,

"That they did wake each other."

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"Into the channel, till the lowest stream "Do kiss the most exalted shores of all."

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