FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 100: An amusing instance of his classical emendations occurs

in the text of Shakspeare. [King Henry IV. pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.] The

poet speaks of one who

"----woebegone

Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,

And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd."

Bentley alters the first word of the sentence to a proper name, which is

given in the third book of the Iliad, and the second of the Æneid; and

reads the passage thus:--

"----Ucaligon

Drew Priam's curtain," &c.!]

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