by
“the fool multitude—Meant,”
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, ii. 9.
26.
Meant of the fool multitude,
“The plain fact is (for it needs not many words) that the
prepositions by and of
are synonymous, and that our ancestors used them in differently, as they were well
justified in doing.”
Gifford's note on Jonson's
Works, vol. i. p. 140.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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