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" Whj' schope thou me to wrother-hele," 

 and iu '' Damo Siris " (Ibid., 110), 



" To goder helo ever came thou hider." 



Mr. Hazlitt priuts, - 



" For yf it may be found in thee 

 That thou them [de] fame for enuyte." 



The emendation [de] is Hitson's, and is probably right, 

 though it would require, for the metre's sake, the elision 

 of that at the beginning of the verse. But what is 

 enuyte ? Ritson reads enmyte, which is, of course, the 

 true reading. Mr. Hazlitt prints (as usual either with- 

 out apprehending or without regarding the sense),. 



" With browes bent and eyes full mery," 



where Ritson has brent, and gives parallel passages in 

 his note on the word. ^Ir. Hazlitt gives us 



" To here the bugles there yblow, 

 With their bugles in that place," 



though Ritson had made the proper correction to hegles. 

 Mr. Hazlitt, witli ludicrous nonchalance, allows the Squire 

 to press into the throng 



" With a bastard large and longe," 



and that with the right word (baslarde) staring him in 

 the face from Ritson's text. We wonder he did not give 

 us an illustrative quotation from Falconbridge ! Both 

 editors have allowed some gross en'ors to escape, such 

 as " come not " for " come " (v. 425) ; " so leue he be " 

 for "ye be" (v. 593) ; "vnto her chambre" for "vnto 

 your" (v. 993) ; but in general Ritson's is the better 

 an4 more intelligent text of the two. In the " Knight 

 of Curtesy," Mr. Hazli'tt has followed Ritson's text 

 almost literatim. Indeed, it is demonstrable thafr he 

 gave it to his printers as co])^ to set up from. The proof 

 is this : Ritson has accented a few words ending in ^e. 

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