We should read commaundes in the second line.
Witness the daily libels almost ballads
In every place, almost in every province,
Are made upon your lust.
Thierry and Theodoret, i. 1.
We should for the first almost, which must be wrong, probably read and the. Mr. Dyce seems never to have seen this; for he had no conception of this source of error: yet I wonder common sense did not suggest that something must be wrong.
The things that grievous were to do or bear
Them to renew, I wote, breeds no delight;
Best music breeds delight in loathing ear.
F. Q. i. 8. 44.