EXAMPLE XXIX. "Song and Dance." Midf. N. Dream. *Note by Malone.] This Song,-like many others, is loft. By the way-Dr. Johnson thinks another Song has been loft, which be fuppofes to have been fung by Oberon. I have recovered both of these airs, and the mufic to which they are set. N.B. They are left in my will to the Museum. EXAMPLE XXX. Enter a legate and two embassadours, with Winchester in a Cardinal's habit. [Hen. VI. Exeter.]-What! is my Lord of Winchefter inftalled? Malone.]-It fhould seem the author meant the Cardinal had just obtained his Cardinal's hat. The inaccuracy was in making Glofter address him by the title in the beginning of this play. "He, in fact, obtained it in the fifth year of Henry's reign! [Malone. "It was July the 14th of that year, and according to Du Cange, the 14th of July fell upon a Monday that year." [Minutius Felix. EXAMPLE EXAMPLE XXXI. I Carrier. The turkeys in my pannier are quite ftarved. Malone.] Here is a flight anachronifm; turkies were not brought into England till the time of Hen. VIII. "Edmond! this argues confcience in your notes." "But the respects thereof are *nice and trivial. [Ric. III. I am happy to find that Mr. Addifon confiders Edmond and me as two powerful auxiliaries to the Imagination. He calls our process the labour of the fancy working downward and a kind of delving fpeculation. Amongst other topics of Minutian fublimity, he lays this before his reader, with a philofophical air that is very becoming to him, and very honourable, I think, to us. "Let a man try to conceive the different bulk of an animal which is twenty, from another animal which is a hundred times less than a "Nice in the fenfe of minute, and of petty import." [Malone. mite! mite! He has no measure for it; the understanding opens infinite fpace around him, but the fancy is loft in the purfuit of an atom, thro' all its numberlefs directions." EXAMPLE XXXI. Was this face the face, That every day, under his household roof, Malone.]" Shakspeare is not here quite accurate.. "Our old Chronicles only fay, that every day ten thousand men came to his household." Note the diverfity! [Sergeant Malone. [0 "Une exactitude étonnannte fur des chofes de "néant?" [Le Clerc, fpeaking of Bayle. I remember seeing a description of a Minutian critic, which I thought fo apropos de bottes (for Edmond's leg,) that I made a note of it, and beg leave to introduce it here. "If you talk of Herodotus, he makes a panegyric upon Harry Stephens. He thinks he gives an account of an author when he tells you the Jubject-the name of the editor-and the time of printing the book-when he marks the goodnefs of the paper, the diligence of the corrector, and the beauty of the type. "He could find only two faults in Virgil, edited by Daniel Heinfius. "Two "Two commas inftead of a parenthesis in the first book of the Æneid, and a femicolon inverted in the fourth Georgic !!" EXAMPLE XXXII. In volume the tenth, and as part of an elaborate appendix to the notes, we have the following paffage : "Add to note 9, pag. 56, Rom. and Juliet, Poperin pear." "Leland was the parfon of Poperingue, and by him, PERHAPS, the poperin pear was brought into England! [Malone EXAMPLE XXXIII. It is playing with edge tools to think of an escape from Edmond's detections-especially for the ladies. I could have fworn that Conftance was correct in defcribing herself. "A widow-husbandlefs." But Edmond has convicted her of an accumulated falfehood. "She was married again at this very time. "She was the wife to a third husband. And she was, (oh fie!) divorced from the fe cond. Forgive Forgive me, dear Mrs. Siddons, but I never can fee you again in Conftance. [Min. Felix, Philo-Siddon-iacus. EXAMPLE of the Superfluous and Minutian "The rule is very fimple that one cannot be two." [Malone in a note upon Troil. and Creff. * It has been proved in the first part of this work, that Edmond conceives three to be the fame as four. menfions of the word Aftrea. See the di CANON |