Note 100 — "CRITICAL SAGACITY," AND "HAPPY CONJECTURE;" OR, BENTLEY'S MILTON.
Reading edition
An amusing instance of his classical emendations occurs in the text of Shakspeare. [King Henry IV. pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.] The poet speaks of one who
"——woebegone Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd."
Bentley alters the first word of the sentence to a proper name, which is given in the third book of the Iliad, and the second of the Æneid; and reads the passage thus:—
"——Ucaligon Drew Priam's curtain," &c.!