77. The next, get chair and crutches to stay;
84. The next, to heaven God send us the way!
Who loseth their youth shall rue it in age.
Who hateth the truth in sorrow shall rage."
T. J. Buckton.
Birmingham.
Footnote 1:[(return)]
Read ἢ for καὶ.
"Contents dies"—Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 2. (Vol. viii., pp. 120. 169.).—I must be permitted, with all due courtesy, to correct Mr. Arrowsmith's assertion respecting this phrase; because, from its dogmatic tone, it is calculated to mislead readers, and perhaps editors. He maintains that this is a good concord, and pronounces Johnson and Collier (myself, of course, included) to be "unacquainted with the usage of their own tongue, and the universal language of thought," for not discerning it.
Now it may, perhaps, surprise Mr. Arrowsmith to be told that he has proved nothing—that not a single one of his instances is relevant. In this passage the verb is neuter or active; in all of his quotations it is the verb substantive we meet. Surely one so well versed, as we must suppose him to be, in general grammar, requires not to be told that this verb takes the same case after as before it, and that the governing case often follows. Indeed, he has recognised this principle by giving "This is the contents thereof" as one of his instances of "contents" governing a singular verb. Let him then produce an exact parallel to "contents dies," or even such a structure as this, "the contents is lies and calumnies," and then we may hearken to him. Till that has been done, my interpretation is the only one that gives sense to the passage without altering the text.