The Menaechmi of Plautus. See note on p. [9], and cf. Farmer, p. [200].
Rowe. P. [4].
[138]. Chaucer. Johnson has probably his eye on Pope's statement, p. [53].
[139]. Boyle. See Birch's Life of Robert Boyle, 1744, pp. 18, 19.
Dewdrops from a lion's mane. Troilus and Cressida, iii. 3. 224.
Hieronymo. See Farmer's Essay, p. [210].
there being no theatrical piece, etc. “Dr. Johnson said of these writers generally that ‘they were sought after because they were scarce, and would not have been scarce had they been much esteemed.’ His decision is neither true history nor sound criticism. They were esteemed, and they deserved to be so” (Hazlitt, Lectures on the Age of Elizabeth, i.).
[141]. the book of some modern critick. Upton's Critical Observations on Shakespeare, Book iii. (ed. 1748, pp. 294-365).