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Vol. III. is there any thing of his; and in p. 27 of Vol. III. I am ſo far from adopting his comment, that I have maintained a poſition directly ſubverſive of it.
I ſhall now, my dear Sir, trouble you with a very few more words.—In The Two Gentlemen of Verona, p. 120, I have inſerted two notes of my late moſt reſpectable friend Mr. Tyrrwhitt, in which he proves that Shakſpeare ſometimes takes a liberty in extending certain words to complete the meaſure.[1] Thus, in The Comedy of Errors,
"Theſe are the parents to theſe children."
"where, (ſays he,) ſome editors, being unneceſſarily alarmed for the metre, have endeavoured to help it by a word of their own,—
"Theſe plainly are the parents to theſe children."
"So, (he adds,) country is made a triſyllable.
T. N. Act. I. ſc. ii.
"The like of him. Know'ſt thou this country?"
Remembrance, quadriſyllable.
T. N. Act. I. ſc. i.
"And laſting in her ſad remembrance,"
- ↑ Mr. Upton had made the ſame remark. See his Critical Obſervations on Shakſpeare, 2d edit. p. 372.
