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" And, where he took it up, resigns the bays. 1 ' 



" But we (defend us!) are divine, 



[Not] female, but madam born, and come 

 From a right-honorable wombe." (p. 115.) 



Here Mr. Hazlitt has ruined both sense and metre by 

 his unhappy " not." We should read " Female, but 

 madam-born," meaning clearly enough " we are women, 

 it is true, but of another race." 



" In every hand [let] a cup be found 

 That from all hearts a health may sound." (p. 121.) 



Wrong again, and the inserted "let" ruinous to the meas 

 ure. Is it possible that Mr. Hazlitt does not understand 

 so common an English construction as this ] 



" First told thee into th' ayre, then to the ground." (p. 141.) 



Mr. Hazlitt inserts the " to," which is not in the original, 

 from another version. Lovelace wrote "ayer." We 

 have noted two other cases (pp. 203 and 248) where he 

 makes the word a dissyllable. On the same page we 

 have " shewe's " changed to " shew " because Mr. Hazlitt 

 did not know it meant " show us " and not " shows." On 

 page 170, " their" is substituted for "her," which re 

 fers to Lucasta, and could refer to nothing else. 



Mr. Hazlitt changes " quarrels the student Mercury " 

 to " quarrels with," not knowing that quarrels was once 

 used as a transitive verb. (p. 189.) 



Wherever he chances to notice it, Mr. Hazlitt changes 

 the verb following two or more nouns connected by an 

 " and " from singular to plural. For instance : 



" You, sir, alone, fame, and all conquering rhyme 

 File the set teeth," &c. (p. 224.) 



for "files." Lovelace commonly writes so ; on p. 181, 

 where it escaped Mr. Hazlitt's grammatical eye, we 

 find, 



" But broken faith, and th' cause of it, 

 All damning gold, iaas damned to the pit." 



