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has crept in by editorial oversight for " wisely, that 's 

 jealously." So have 



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

 and 



4 This wit [with] taking long journeys "; 

 and 



44 Virginius, thou dost but supply my place, 



I thine: Fortune hath lift me [thee] 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 : " Corne, my little punk, 

 with thy two compositors, to this unlawful painting- 

 house," [printing-house,] which Mr. Hazlitt awkwardly 

 endeavors to explain by this note on the word compos- 

 itors, " i. e. (conjecturally), making up the composition 

 of 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 

 penck means "the hole in a bench by which it was taken 

 up," that " descant" means " look askant 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, 



44 To whom, my lord, bends thus your awe," 



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

 aue, which, if it mean 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 1 We find the same word in Vol. III. p. 217 : 



44 Whose station's built on avees and applause." 



Vol. III. pp.47, 48: 



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