Pope read,
'I was much rapt in this,
And apprehended here immediately
The unknown Ajax——
Heav'ns! what a man is there? a very horse,
He knows not his own nature: what things are
Most abject in regard, and dear in use?'
Hanmer reconstructed the whole passage, thus:
'I was much rapt
In this I read, and apprehended here
Immediately the unknown Ajax: heavens!
What a man's there? a very horse, that has
He knows not what: in nature what things there are
Most abject in regard, and dear in use.'
Note XI.
IV. 4. 74-77. The Quarto here reads:
'Here why I speake it loue,
The Grecian youths are full of quality,
And swelling ore with arts and exercise:'
The first Folio has:
'Heare why I speake it; Loue:
The Grecian youths are full of qualitie,
Their louing well compos'd, with guift of nature,
Flawing and swelling ore with Arts and exercise:'