Note 10 — WORDS.
Reading edition
Some Writers have used Ye as the Objective Case Plural of the Pronoun of the Second Person; very improperly and ungrammatically.
“But Tyrants dread ye, lest your just decree Transfer the pow’r, and set the people free.” Prior.
“His wrath, which one day will destroy ye both.” Milton, P. L. ii. 734.
Dr. Bently has corrected this mistake, which is probably an error of the Press, or of the Editor of whom he talks so much. But he has done it, without taking the least notice of the matter, or assuming any merit to himself from an emendation, which is one of the very few that are really such in his whole performance.