Si ultra placitum, etc. Virgil, Eclogues, vii. 27, 28.
[55]. Dryden. Discourse concerning Satire, ad init. (ed. W. P. Ker, ii., p. 18).
Enter three Witches solus. “This blunder appears to be of Mr. Pope's own invention. It is not to be found in any one of the four folio copies of Macbeth, and there is no quarto edition of it extant” (Steevens).
[56]. Hector's quoting Aristotle. Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2. 166.
[57]. those who play the Clowns. “Act iii., Sc. 4” in Pope's edition, but Act iii., Sc. 2 in modern editions.
[58]. Procrustes. Cf. Spectator, No. 58.
Note 2. In the edition of 1728, Pope added to this note “which last words are not in the first quarto edition.”
[59]. led into the Buttery of the Steward. “Mr. Pope probably recollected the following lines in The Taming of the Shrew, spoken by a Lord, who is giving directions to his servant concerning some players:
Go, Sirrah, take them to the buttery,
And give them friendly welcome every one.