[Not the only passage in Shakspeare which Theobald explained and Pope
did not understand; but more of this hereafter.]
_Book of Homilies_ (Vol. ii., p. 89.).--Allow me to inform B. that the
early edition of Homilies {347} referred to in his Query was compiled by
Richard Taverner, and consists of a series of "postils" on the epistles and
gospels throughout the year. It appears to have been first printed in 1540
(_Ames_, i. 407.), and was republished in 1841, under the editorial care of
Dr. Cardwell.