“_Hath hard words_,” etc. _Hudibras_, 1. i. 85-6.
_trochaic dimeter_, etc. See Upton, _Critical Observations_, p. 366, etc.
“_it was a learned age_,” etc. _Id._, p. 5. Cf. Hurd’s _Marks of
Imitation_, 1757, p. 24.
_Grey_, in his _Notes on Shakespeare_, 1754, vol. i., p. vii.
_Dodd_, William (1729-1777), the forger, editor of the _Beauties of
Shakespeare_, 1752.
_Whalley._ Farmer is here unfair to Whalley. The _Enquiry into the
Learning of Shakespeare_ shows plainly that Whalley preferred Shakespeare
to Jonson. Further, his _Enquiry_ was earlier than his edition of Jonson.
In it Whalley expresses the hope “that some Gentleman of Learning would
oblige the Public with a correct Edition” (p. 23).
170. _Addison ... Chevy Chase._ See the _Spectator_, Nos. 70 and 74 (May,
1711).
_Wagstaffe_, William (1685-1725), ridiculed Addison’s papers on _Chevy
Chase_ in _A Comment upon the History of Tom Thumb_, 1711.
_Marks of Imitation._ Hurd’s _Letter to Mr. Mason, on the Marks of
Imitation_ was printed in 1757. It was added to his edition of Horace’s
Epistles to the Pisos and Augustus.
_as Mat. Prior says_,—_Alma_, i. 241: “And save much Christian ink’s
effusion.”
_Read Libya._ Upton, _Critical Observations_, p. 255.
171. _Heath._ “It is extraordinary that this Gentleman should attempt so
voluminous a work as the _Revisal of Shakespeare’s Text_, when, he tells
us in his Preface, ‘he was not so fortunate as to be furnished with either
of the Folio editions, much less any of the ancient Quartos’: and even
‘Sir Thomas Hanmer’s performance was known to him only by Mr. Warburton’s
representation’ ” (Farmer).
171. _Thomas North._ “I find the character of this work pretty early
delineated:
“’Twas Greek at first, that Greek was Latin made,
That Latin French, that French to English straid:
Thus ’twixt one Plutarch there’s more difference,
Than i’ th’ same Englishman return’d from France.” (Farmer).
“_What a reply is this?_” Upton, _Critical Observations_, p. 249.
“_Our author certainly wrote_,” etc. Theobald, ed. 1733, vi., p. 178.
172. _Epitaph on Timon._ “See Theobald’s Preface to _K. Richard 2d._ 8vo.
1720” (Farmer).
_I cannot however omit_, etc. The following passage, down to “from Homer
himself” (foot of p. 175) was added in the second edition.
“_The speeches copy’d from Plutarch_,” etc. See Pope’s Preface, p. 53.
_Should we be silent._ _Coriolanus_, v. 3. 94, etc.