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ſpelt farther, for which, on the ground already mentioned, I have given further, becauſe that appears to me to be the true mode of ſpelling this word; and Dr. Johnſon, whoſe authority is ſomewhat higher than this anonymous writer's, was of this opinion[1]. The two words were undoubtedly uſed indiſcriminately by Shakſpeare, who certainly did not give himſelf much concern about grammatical diſquiſitions.
3. The third ſuppoſed error, for which I am not anſwerable as an overſight in collating the old copies, is in Vol. II. p. 151. The Comedy of Errors.
"If it be, ſir, pray eat none of it."
It is a mere error of the preſs. The pronoun I (I pray, eat none of it,) I find, on looking into my papers, was inadvertently omitted by the compoſitor at the preſs, as the metre of the line ſhews.
4. Vol. II. p. 190. Ibidem.
"And much different from the man he was."
"The folios (we are told) read—And much, much different."
- ↑ See his Dict. in v. further.
