L.
Pope and Bishop Burgess (Vol. ii., p. 310.).—The allusion is to the passage in Troilus and Cressida:
"The dreadful sagitary appals our numbers."
which Theobald explained from Caxton, but Pope did not understand.
C.B.
[Not the only passage in Shakspeare which Theobald explained and Pope did not understand; but more of this hereafter.]
Book of Homilies (Vol. ii., p. 89.).—Allow me to inform B. that the early edition of Homilies
referred to in his Query was compiled by Richard Taverner, and consists of a series of "postils" on the epistles and gospels throughout the year. It appears to have been first printed in 1540 (Ames, i. 407.), and was republished in 1841, under the editorial care of Dr. Cardwell.
C.H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.