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"Is that temptation that doth lead us on

"To sin in loving virtue."

327. "Sail seas in cockles.".

By cockles, I apprehend, is meant, cock-boats.

SCENE VI.

339. "Ever since I can remember."

This is a common, but a very corrupt phrase, for as long ago as I can remember.

340. "

If you were born to honour, show it

now;

If put upon you, make the judgment,”

&c.

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night.

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Extremity, I believe, is desperation; and Pericles, I suppose, is alluding to the effect which Marina produces in composing his temper, and in dissipating his sorrows.

SCENE III.

384. "When we with tears parted Pentapolis."

"Parted," for left, departed-from." The phrase is still in vulgar use in Ireland.

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PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE.

This tragedy, I think, exhibits no equitable claim to be regarded as a work of Shakspeare's, any more than that with which it is most worthily associated, in the same volume, Titus Andronicus. If one of these compositions is ludicrously shocking, the other is shockingly ludicrous; and the poet's reputation, I believe, would have been better consulted, by dismissing them both to contempt and oblivion. There are, indeed, some circumstances relating to "The Prince of Tyre," which may render it worthy of preservation, as a curiosity. Unlike the concomitant tragedy just mentioned, there are some incidental parts of this which Shakspeare might have written, and that, had they appeared in any of his undisputed works, would never have raised suspicion as to their genuineness. The most striking of those parts which I think our poet may have written, are the first scene in the third act, and the scene in the fifth between Pericles and his daughter. The resemblance of particular passages to others in our author's authentic compositions, amounts, I think, to no more than an evidence that he had perused this play with attention, and adopted from it, occasionally, some peculiar thoughts and turns of expression; and I think it can hardly be doubted, that, in composing that part of the Winter's Tale which consigns Hermione to a supposed death, and Perdita, from her birth, to an obscure retreat, until matters become ripe at last for reconciliation, our poet had in view this wild story of Thaisa and Marina.

THE END.

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VOL. 1.

Page 50, Reed 468, for "amendment that that " read "amendment than that." 229, for "from an inattention" read "from inattention," &c.

87, ........

92,

127,

269, for "their sentiment" read "the sentiment."

377, for "encomiums" read "encomium;" with a semicolon after measures;" Dele a before Plato.

141, for "chronicles " read "chroniclers."

363, for "I out" read "Icut out."

307, for "milk my eyes" read "milk my ewes."

for "general suggestions" read "generous suggestions." 170, for "celeribus " read "sceleribus."

362, for "to the age's tooth" read “for the age's tooth."

427, for "nuptual" read " nuptial," and for "transported " read

transport."

74, before" Lord Hereford," &c. insert "Berk."

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303,

349.

349,

351,

392,

23, for

402,

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his mercy" read" his good mercy."
159, the comma after "wistly" should follow "
166, for "Phoebus " read "Rhabus."
248, for "Parmenio " read "Parmeno."

speak in't."

In the sonnet, for" softly breathe" read" softly sing."
24, from "Out of a deal," &c. dele of.

28, for "Who might perhaps" read "We might perhaps," &c.
60, for "them others" read "the mothers."

then should read" put "then we should read," supremes of state " read " supremes of states." 431,........ 304, for " do not pluck down" read" do one pluck down."

VOL. II.

21,

........... After" in reproof of this lies the jest," add, "and in Troilus and Cressida. Act 1, Sc. 3,

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Page 58, .............. In the passage from Lee, for "I bear you that " read "I bar you

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566, dismiss after "no cause, no cause," the note of admiration.

...... 581, for "man's work" read" a man's work."

9, for

our ears" read "

your ears."

In the emended text for "We have dispatch'd" read "We here dispatch," &c.

In the Italian sentence, for "it" read "il."

64, for "hour" read "season."

209, for "interpretators " read “ 'interpreters."

270, for "Ballerophon "read" 'Bellerophon

584, after "Mr. Steevens, in a remark" read the words which follow upon a passage in Pericles was not correct, in asserting that this name in Cymbeline is always Posthumus."

47, Regulate the metre after

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I am so far

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All.

Already in your gifts.

So are we all.

after "himself by't," instead of "but then" read "but I think that," &c.

instead of "and is his happiest " read "and in his happiest," &c. in the passage from Camden, for "virtue's

read "virtues."

for the captain in the citadel " read "the captains," &c.

506, for "are you man" read "are you mad."

The note of interrogation placed after "villain" belongs to "thunder." 321, for "king doubt" read "king double."

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