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Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

Part 1 — “The Humorous Lieutenant.”

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Act i. sc. 1. Second Ambassador's speech:—

... “When your angers,

Like so many brother billows, rose together,

And, curling up your foaming crests, defied,” &c.

This worse than superfluous “like” is very like an interpolation of some matter of fact critic—all pus, prose atque venenum. The “your” in the next line, instead of “their,” is likewise yours, Mr. Critic!

Act ii. sc. 1. Timon's speech:—

“Another of a new way will be look'd at.”

“We must suspect the poets wrote, ‘of a new day.’ So immediately after,

... Time may

For all his wisdom, yet give us a day.”

Seward's Note.

For this very reason I more than suspect the contrary.

Ib. sc. 3. Speech of Leucippe:—

“I'll put her into action for a wastcoat.”

What we call a riding-habit,—some mannish dress.

[pg 300]

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