III. TEXT BOOKS
[10] Shakespeare—Select Plays. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. MDCCCXC.)
More than a century and a half has passed since Pope thus expressed himself about philologists,—
"'Tis true on words is still our whole debate,
Dispute of Me or Te, of aut or at,
To sound or sink in Cano O or A,
To give up Cicero or C or K;
The critic eye, that microscope of wit,
Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit;
How parts relate to parts or they to whole,