ON CANT AND HYPOCRISY
This essay and the next were published with some omissions in Sketches and Essays.
PAGE [330]. ‘If to do,’ etc. The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 2. Curl. Edmund Curll (1675–1747). ‘The spirit,’ etc. S. Matthew xxvi. 41. [331]. ‘Most easily,’ etc. Cf. Hebrews xii. 1. Video, etc. Ovid, Metam., VII. 20–1. [332]. ‘Duenna.’ See Act III. Sc. 5. ‘A little round,’ etc. The Castle of Indolence, I. St. 69. [333]. Lord Shaftesbury. See Characteristicks, An Inquiry concerning Virtue, or Merit, Part I. Sect. II. ‘Upon this bank,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 7. [335]. ‘Mighty coil,’ etc. Cf. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 2.