except
“before excepted—Let her,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, i. 3. 6.
“This, says Dr. Farmer, should probably be ‘as before excepted,’—a ludicrous use of the
formal law-phrase. But the ingenious critic
might have spared his remark, the formal
law-phrase being more usually as in the text”
(RITSON)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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