The _vast_ proportion--

II.ii.58 (48,4) And the will dotes that is inclinable] [Old edition, not

so well, has it, _attributive_. POPE.] By the old edition Mr. Pope means

the old quarto. The folio has, as it stands, _inclinable_.--I think the

first reading better; _the will dotes that attributes_ or gives _the

qualities which it affects_; that first causes excellence, and then

admires it.

II.ii.60 (48,5) Without some image of the affected merit] The present

reading is right. The will _affects_ an object for some supposed

_merit_, which Hector says, is uncensurable, unless the _merit_ so

_affected_ be really there.

II.ii.71 (48,7) unrespective sieve] That is, into a _common voider_.

_Sieve_ is in the quarto. The folio reads,

--unrespective _fame_;

for which the modern editions have silently printed,

--unrespective _place_.

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