2$6 LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS. 



We hardly need say that it should be 



An idle meteor, which, drawn forth the earth, 

 Would, &c. 



/mvardness for yhnvardness (vol. ii. p. 87), * tennis-balls 

 struck and bandit for l \yxs\died t (Ib. p. 275), may be errors of 

 the press; but 



Come, I ll love you wisely : 

 That s jealousy, 



has crept in by editorial oversight for wisely, that s jealously/ 

 So have 



Ay, the great emperor of [or] the mighty Cham ; 



and 



This wit [with} taking long journeys ; 



and 



Virginius, thou dost but supply my place, 



I thine : Fortune hath lift me [t/iee] to my chair, 



And thrown me headlong to thy pleading bar ; 



and 



I ll pour my soul into my daughter s belly [body], 

 And with my soldier s tears embalm her wounds. 



We suggest that the change of an a to an r would make sense of 

 the following : Come, my little punk, with thy two compositors, 

 to this unlawful painting-house/ [printing-house,] which Mr. 

 Hazlitt awkwardly endeavours to explain by this note on the word 

 compositors l i. e. (conjecturally), making up the composition ot 

 the picture ! Our readers can decide for themselves ; the 

 passage occurs vol. i. p. 214. 



We think Mr. Hazlitt s notes are, in the main, good; but we 

 should like to know his authority for saying that pench means 

 the hole in a bench by which it was taken up that descant 

 means look faskant on and that I wis is equivalent to 

 I surmise, imagine, which it surely is not in the passage to 

 which his note is appended. On page 9, vol. i., we read in 

 the text, 



To whom, my lord, bends thus your awe, 



and in the note, i. e. submission. The original has aue, which, 

 if it means ave, is unmeaning here. Did Mr. Hazlitt never see 

 a picture of the Annunciation with ave written on the scroll 

 proceeding from the bending angel s mouth ? We find the same 

 word in vol. iii. p. 217 : 



Whose station s built on avees and applause. 



Vol. iii. pp. 47, 48 : 



And then rest, gentle bones ; yet pray 

 That when by the precise you are view d, 

 A supersedeas be not sued 



