to
So thou destroy Rapine, and Murder there”—
were written by Shakespeare in his earliest period. But instead of the text—
“Revenge, which makes the foul offenders quake.
Tit. Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me?”—
the words in italics ought to be omitted.
“Troilus And Cressida.”
“Mr. Pope (after Dryden) informs us that the story of Troilus and Cressida was originally the work of one Lollius, a Lombard: but Dryden goes yet further; he declares it to have been written in Latin verse, and that Chaucer translated it. Lollius was a historiographer of Urbino in Italy.”—Note in Stockdale's edition, 1807.