20 Shakespearian Criticis 



the critic himself falls into the error of finding too in 

 tation of the Nurse's ' What, lady bird ' fiod f, u-hid 



scarcely an improvement on the reading which w 

 darling an opprobrious epithet." When I pointed o- 

 he answered: " I can only plead a recent course of En 

 for my denseness of intellect." 



