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" For I tell the now trevely, 

 Is none so wyse ne to sle, 

 But ever ye may som what lere," 



which, of course, should be, 



" ne so sle 

 But ever he may som what lere." 



Worse than all, Mr. Hazlitt tells us (Vol. I. p. 158) that 

 when they bury the great Khan, they lay his body in a 

 tabernacle, 



" With sheld and spere and other wede 

 With a whit mere to gyf him in ylke." 



"VVe will let Sir John Maundeville correct the last verse : 

 " And they seyn that when he shale come into another 

 World .... the mare schalle gheven him mylL" Mr. 

 Hazlitt gives us some wretched doggerel by "Piers of 

 Fulham," and gives it swarming with blunders. We 

 take at random a couple of specimens : 



" And loveship goith ay to warke 

 Where that presence is put a bake," (Vol. II. pp. 13, 14,) 



where we should read "love's ship," "wrake," and 

 " abake." Again, just below, 



" Ffor men haue seyn here to foryn, 

 That love laughet when men be forsworn." 



Love should be "love." Ovid is the obscure person 

 alluded to in the " men here to foryn " : 



" Jupiter e ccelo perjuria ridet amantum." 



We dare say Mr. Hazlitt, if he ever read the passage, 

 took it for granted that " to foryn " meant too foreign, 

 and gave it up in despair. But surely Shakespeare's 



" At lovers' perjuries, 

 They say, Jove laughs," 



is not too foreign to have put him on the right scent. 



Mr. Hazlitt is so particular in giving us v for u and 

 vice versa, that such oversights are a little annoying. 



