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Make boote of Johnson: That is, take advantage. 14. Let our best heads know, etc.] Theobald: I might very reasonably return Mr Pope one of his own Civilities here, and say, the intermediate Line [namely, ‘That to-morrow the last of battels,’ as Pope has it, omitting the word ‘many’] is in his Ear a Verse. But I have a better Opinion of his Ear than I have of his Industry, one of the Qualifications necessary to a good Editor. A small Observation of the Measure, mix'd with a little Diligence in collating, might have taught him to regulate the Lines, and to have avoided this hobbling, inharmonious, Monster of a Verse.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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