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*' For I tell the now trevely, 

 Is none so wyse ne to sle, 

 But ever ye miiy som what lere," 



tvhich, of course, should be, 



" ne so sle 

 But ever he. may som what lere." 



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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." 



We will let Sir John Maundeville correct the last verse : 

 " And they seyn that when he shale come into another 

 World .... the mare schalle gheveii him mylkP 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. IL pp. 13, 14,) 



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

 " abake." Again, just below, 



" Ffor men haiae seyn here to foryn. 

 That love laughet Avhen men be forsworn." 



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

 alluded to in the " men here to forvn " : 



" Jupiter e coelo 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 verm, that such oversights are a little annoying. 



