oints of view, therefore, Ben's
judgment is just; for in this way, the line cannot be read, as metre,
without that strong and quick emphasis on "your" which the sense
requires;--and had not the sense required an emphasis on "your," the
_tmesis_ of the sign of its cases "of," "to," &c., would destroy almost
all boundary between the dramatic verse and prose in comedy:--a lesson not
to be rash in conjectural amendments.--1818.

_Ib._ sc. 4.--

"_P. jun._ I love all men of virtue, _frommy_ Princess."

"Frommy," _fromme_--pious, dutiful, &c.

Act v. sc. 4. Penny-boy, sen., and Porter.

I dare not, will not, think that honest Ben had _Lear_ in his mind in this
mock mad scene.

"The New Inn."

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

"A heavy purse, and then two turtles, _makes_."

"Makes," frequent in old books, and even now used in some counties for
mates, or pairs.

_Ib._ sc. 3. Host's speech:--

..."And for a leap
Of the vaulting horse, to _play_ the vaulting _house_."

Instead of reading with Whalley "ply" for "play," I would suggest "horse"
for "house." The meaning would then be obvious and pertinent. The punlet,
or pun-maggot, or pun intentional, "horse and house," is below Jonson. The
_jeu-de-mots_ just below--

..."Read a lecture
Upon _Aquinas_ at St. Thomas a _Water_ings"--

had a learned smack in it to season its insipidity.

_Ib._ sc. 6. Lovel's speech:--

"Then shower'd his bounties on me, like the Hours,
That open-handed sit upon the clouds,
And press the liberality of heaven
Down to the laps of thankful men!"

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sight which it is difficult to make one's self see,--a picture my fancy
cannot copy detached from the words.

Act ii. sc. 5. Though it was hard upon old Ben, yet Felton, it must be
confessed, was in the right in considering the Fly, Tipto, Bat Burst, &c.,
of this play mere dotages. Such a