"Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee; for I am wish'd

Thou shouldest be coloured thus."

Pope omitted 'am,' and so his successors; but it must have been a mistake for 've; unless there be an error in 'wish'd.'


"Gods, if you

Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never."

Possibly the poet wrote more correctly Had taken.


"You some permit

To second ills with ills, each elder worse;