“The Elder Brother.”

Act i. sc. 2. Charles's speech:—

... “For what concerns tillage,

Who better can deliver it than Virgil

In his Georgicks? and to cure your herds,

His Bucolicks is a master-piece.”

Fletcher was too good a scholar to fall into so gross a blunder, as Messrs. Sympson and Colman suppose. I read the passage thus:—

... “For what concerns tillage,

Who better can deliver it than Virgil,

In his Georgicks, or to cure your herds