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or whether Abbott (§ 136) gives three other examples of ‘whether’ thus used after ‘or,’ where we ‘should now omit one of the two.’ ‘Or whether doth my mind being crowned with you, Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery? Or whether shall I say mine eye saith true,’ Sonnet cxiv. ‘Or whether riding on the balls of mine Seem they in motion?’—Mer. of Ven., III, ii, 18. It will thus be seen that Hanmer's reading ‘and whether’—followed by Keightley, Hudson ii, and Wordsworth—is needless. Staunton also suggests that and be substituted for ‘or,’ apparently unaware that he is therein anticipated.—Ed.