No levelled malice infests one comma,
Timon, i, 1,
the irate Author exclaims, that he
Puts the period often from his place,
Lucrece, l. 565,
and adds, ‘Follow
My point and period ... ill or well.
Lear, iv, 7.
You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent.
Love’s Labour Lost, iv, 2.
Wherefore stand you on nice points?
3 Henry VI, iv, 7.
The Printer has no resource but compliance, which, however, unless the affront be very severe, will soon
Stand a comma ’tween their amities,
Hamlet, v, 2,
and thus heal the breach, and end all happily with mutual
Notes of Admiration.
Winter’s Tale, v, 2.
‘And are etceteras nothing?’ What a typographical question! and probably the only occasion on which so unpoetical a figure has done duty in any drama. The &c. makes an insignificant appearance in either MS. or type, and yet how often it stands for whole pages of matter. Hence the point of the question.