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" And, where he took it up, resigns the bayt." 



" But we (defend us!) are divine, 

 [Not] female, but madam born, and come 

 From a right-honorable wombe." (p. 116.) 



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.' 7 



" 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 1 



" 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, was damned to the pit." 



