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CH. JUST. And struck me in my very seat of justice.

In a note on this passage, the anachronism of continuing Gascoine

chief justice in the reign of Henry the Fifth has been adverted to.

The fault is properly to be ascribed to the author of the old play of

_Henry the Fifth_, from which Shakspeare inadvertently adopted it.

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