GEORGE STEPHENS.

Stockholm.

_The disputed Passage in the "Tempest"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).--I

am the "COMMA" which MR. COLLIER claims the merit of having removed, and I

humbly protest against the removal. I adhere to the reading of the folio of

1632, except that I would strike out the final _s_ in labours. The passage

would then read:

"But these sweet thoughts so refresh my labour

Most busy least, when I do it."

That is, the thoughts so refresh my labour, that I am "most busy least" (an

emphatic way of saying least busy), "when I do it," to wit, the labour. MR.

HICKSON is ingenious, but he takes no notice of--

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