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for—"cannot I help;" in p. 174, "this paper," "for his paper;" in Vol. II. p. 70, ſhould, for ſhall; in p. 143, diſpos'd, for beſtow'd; in p. 157, "Ay, let none enter," for—"Ay, and let none enter;" and in p. 190, therefore, for thereof.
It is not an incurious ſpeculation to conſider how many errors the writer to whom I am indebted for the above liſt, would have been guilty of in collating and printing one hundred thouſand lines. He tells us himſelf that ſome remarks which he publiſhed a few years ago, "have been repreſented as the moſt incorrect publication that ever appeared, and that, from the liſt of errata in the book itſelf, and the additional one given in another pamphlet, the charge does not ſeem to be without foundation." We have ſeen that in collating thirteen paſſages he has committed, if not three, certainly two errors; if therefore he had undertaken to collate one hundred thouſand lines, his inaccuracies according to the moſt moderate calculation would only have amounted to about fifteen thousand.
The next high crime and miſdemeanor with which the late editor of Shakſpeare is charged,
