[83] _That_, Copland's edition.
[84] _Craft_, Vele's edition.
[85] _My_, Copland's edition.
[86] _Exit_ omitted in Copland's edition.
[87] Abhominable. So the word is constantly spelt. It is worth
remarking, in order to fix the adjustment of a passage in Shakespeare's
"Love's Labour's Lost," A. 4, S. I: This is abhominable which he would
call abominable. Capell's edition, nearly agreeable to the quartos, or,
this is abominable which we would call abhominable. So Theobald and
Hanmer, according to the folios. The two great and learned editors,
Warburton and Johnson, read _vice versa_: This is abominable which he
would call abhominable, which destroys the poet's humour, such as it
is, who is laughing at such fanatical phantasms and rackers of
orthography as affect to speak fine.--_Hawkins_.
[88] Thus.
[89] _Called_, Copland's edition.
[90] _Here in this tide_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[91] _Some_, Copland's edition.
[92] _Canseth_, Copland's edition.
[93] Thus.
[94] _You_, omitted in Copland's edition.
[95] Greatly.
[96] _As for al those fylthe doinges_, Copland's edition.
[97] Shakespeare puts these words, with great humour, into the mouth of
Dogberry, in "Much Ado about Nothing," A. 3, S. 8. Though the quartos
and folios concur in this reading, the moderns uniformly read, _He's a
good man_. N.B.--The old reading is restored by Mr Capell.
The author seems here to ridicule the blasphemous questions discussed
by the schoolmen among the Papists in his time, as, Whether the Pope be
God or man, or a mean betwixt both? &c.
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