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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2"


[141] _And testament_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[142] _Profession_, Copland's edition.
[143] _Now_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[144] Both the copies read _professour.--Hawkins_.
[145] _Congregation_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[146] _Abhord utterly_, Copland's edition.
[147] _Wicked_, Copland's edition.
[148] Juventus, coming in and hearing imperfectly the words _sin_ and
_vice_, very naturally mistakes them for terms used at dice: we may
presume, therefore, that the genuine reading should be _cinque and
sice.--Hawkins_.
[149] _Cyce_, Copland's edition.
[150] _Not_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[151] [An indelicate figure, which occurs in jest-books and
other early literature.]
[152] _Shyfe_, Copland's edition.
[153] _Trape_, Copland's edition.
[154] Thus.
[155] _Complaye_, Copland's edition.
[156] _Our_, Copland's edition.
[157] _Veter_, Copland's edition.
[158] _Plasphemyng_, Copland's edition.
[159] _Trrible_, Copland's edition.
[160] _His_, Vele's edition.
[161] _Fair_, Copland's ed.
[162] _This_, Vele's edition.
[163] _Austine_, Copland's edition.
[164] _As_, Copland's edition.
[165] _Returned_, Vele's edition.
[166] _Borde_, Vele's edition.
[167] Mr Garrick's copy is imperfect, and ends at this mark.--_Hawkins_.
[168] _Mot_, Vele's edition.
[169] The following lines being torn are filled up by conjecture with
the words printed in _italics.


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