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Page vi
Here I have always endeavoured , where practicable , to give space to the critic to explain or advocate his emendation , except in the cases of two writers for whose suggestions , I might as well confess , my patience was long since ...
Here I have always endeavoured , where practicable , to give space to the critic to explain or advocate his emendation , except in the cases of two writers for whose suggestions , I might as well confess , my patience was long since ...
Page vii
Whoever wishes to attain an English style uncouth without sim' plicity , obscure without conciseness , and slovenly without ease , must give his nights and days to the Notes of Capell . ' And as if all this were not enough , these Notes ...
Whoever wishes to attain an English style uncouth without sim' plicity , obscure without conciseness , and slovenly without ease , must give his nights and days to the Notes of Capell . ' And as if all this were not enough , these Notes ...
Page viii
... and I might as well give them here , since they are not recorded in the textual notes : In I , vi , 26 , in ' compt ' ( to count - Betterton ) ; I , vii , 11 , ' Commends th ' Ingredience ' ( Commands th ' Ingredience - Betterton ) ...
... and I might as well give them here , since they are not recorded in the textual notes : In I , vi , 26 , in ' compt ' ( to count - Betterton ) ; I , vii , 11 , ' Commends th ' Ingredience ' ( Commands th ' Ingredience - Betterton ) ...
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... a generation of villaines not worthy to live ; these be they that live by robbing and spoyling the poor countreyman , that maketh him many times to buy bread to give unto them , though he want for himself and his poore children .
... a generation of villaines not worthy to live ; these be they that live by robbing and spoyling the poor countreyman , that maketh him many times to buy bread to give unto them , though he want for himself and his poore children .
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The two following quotations seem to give a clearer account of them than we find at present in the notes :' Coyne and liveri is this ; there will come a Kerne or Galliglas , whiche be the Irish soldiers , to lie in the churl's house ...
The two following quotations seem to give a clearer account of them than we find at present in the notes :' Coyne and liveri is this ; there will come a Kerne or Galliglas , whiche be the Irish soldiers , to lie in the churl's house ...
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