sprised: but it shall not be so long; this
wrestler shall clear all."

This has always appeared to me one of the most un-Shakespearian speeches
in all the genuine works of our poet; yet I should be nothing surprised,
and greatly pleased, to find it hereafter a fresh beauty, as has so often
happened to me with other supposed defects of great men.--1810.

It is too venturous to charge a passage in Shakespeare with want of truth
to nature; and yet at first sight this speech of Oliver's expresses
truths, which it seems almost impossible that any mind should so
distinctly, so livelily, and so voluntarily, have presented to itself, in
connection with feelings and intentions so malignant, and so contrary to
those which the qualities expressed would naturally have called forth. But
I dare not say that this seeming unnaturalness is not in the nature of an
abused wilfulness, when united with a strong intellect. In such characters
there is sometimes a gloomy self-gratification in making the absoluteness
of the will (_sit pro ratione voluntas!_) evident to themselves by setting
the reason and the conscience in full array against it.--1818.

_Ib._ sc. 2.--

"_Celia._ If your saw yourself with _your_ eyes, or knew yourself with
_your_ judgment, the fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more
equal enterprise."

Surely it should be "_our_ eyes" and "_our_ judgment."

_Ib._ sc 3.--

"_Cel._ But is all this for your father?

_Ros._ No; some of it is for _my child's father_."

Theobald restores this as the reading of the older editions. It may be so:
but who can doubt that it is a mistake for "my father's child," meaning
herself? According to Theobald's note, a most indelicate anticipation is
put into the mouth of Rosalind without reason;--and besides, what a strange
thought, and how out of place and unintelligible!

Act iv. sc. 2.--

"Take thou no scorn
To wear the horn, the lusty horn;
It was a crest ere thou wast born."

I question whether there exists a parallel instance of a phrase, that like
this of "horns" is universal in all languages, and yet for which no one
has discovered even a plausible origin.

"Twelfth Night."

Act i. sc. 1. Duke's speech:--

... "So full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high fantastical."

Warburton's alteration of _is_ into _in_ is needless. "Fancy" may very
well be interpreted "exclusive affection," or "passionate preference."
Thus, bird-fanciers; gentlemen