Thus 'twixt one Plutarch there's more difference,
Than i' th' same Englishman return'd from France.” (Farmer).
“What a reply is this?” Upton, Critical Observations, p. 249.
“Our author certainly wrote,” etc. Theobald, ed. 1733, vi., p. 178.
[172]. Epitaph on Timon. “See Theobald's Preface to K. Richard 2d. 8vo. 1720” (Farmer).
I cannot however omit, etc. The following passage, down to “from Homer himself” (foot of p. [175]) was added in the second edition.
“The speeches copy'd from Plutarch,” etc. See Pope's Preface, p. [53].
Should we be silent. Coriolanus, v. 3. 94, etc.
[174]. The Sun's a thief. Timon of Athens, iv. 3. 439, etc.
Dodd. See the Beauties of Shakespeare, 1752, iii. 285, n. The remark was omitted in the edition of 1780.