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[ the] Has perhaps crept in by a mistake of the transcriber or printer.]
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[ And make your strokes to wound the senseless light] The old eds. have,
"And make OUR strokes to wound the sencelesse LURE."
(the last word being, perhaps, in the 8vo "lute.") Here "light" is a very questionable reading: qy. "air"? (though the third line above ends with that word).)]
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[ boss] In the GENT. MAG. for Jan. 1841, J. M. proposed to alter "boss" to "Bassa." But Cotgrave, in his DICT., has; "A fat BOSSE. Femme bien grasse et grosse; une coche.">[
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[ advocate] So the 4to.—The 8vo "aduocates.">[