Whalley. Farmer is here unfair to Whalley. The Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare shows plainly that Whalley preferred Shakespeare to Jonson. Further, his Enquiry was earlier than his edition of Jonson. In it Whalley expresses the hope “that some Gentleman of Learning would oblige the Public with a correct Edition” (p. 23).
[170]. Addison ... Chevy Chase. See the Spectator, Nos. 70 and 74 (May, 1711).
Wagstaffe, William (1685-1725), ridiculed Addison's papers on Chevy Chase in A Comment upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711.
Marks of Imitation. Hurd's Letter to Mr. Mason, on the Marks of Imitation was printed in 1757. It was added to his edition of Horace's Epistles to the Pisos and Augustus.
as Mat. Prior says,—Alma, i. 241: “And save much Christian ink's effusion.”
Read Libya. Upton, Critical Observations, p. 255.
[171]. Heath. “It is extraordinary that this Gentleman should attempt so voluminous a work as the Revisal of Shakespeare's Text, when, he tells us in his Preface, ‘he was not so fortunate as to be furnished with either of the Folio editions, much less any of the ancient Quartos’: and even ‘Sir Thomas Hanmer's performance was known to him only by Mr. Warburton's representation’ ” (Farmer).
[171]. Thomas North. “I find the character of this work pretty early delineated:
“'Twas Greek at first, that Greek was Latin made,
That Latin French, that French to English straid: