"And to humour the ignorant I have call'd the deer," etc.

Rowe was right, I think, in supplying I have. Singer reads I will call; Collier's folio I call; he Cambridge editors call I.


"Makes fifty sores, O sore L!"

The reading of the Cambridge editors is one soul.


"Of piercing a hogshead!"

The poet, I suspect, wrote Oh! not 'Of'; and so I have ventured to give it.


"Celestial, as thou art, oh! pardon Love this wrong,