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Book II

., Chap. xiii. (ed. Joseph Devey, _Bohn_, p. 97).

4. _Our eyes are made the fools._ _Macbeth_, II. 1.

_That if it would but apprehend._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, V. 1.

_The flame o’ the taper._ _Cymbeline_, II. 2.

_For they are old._ Cf. _King Lear_, II. 4.

5. _Nothing but his unkind daughters._ _King Lear_, III. 4. [‘Could have subdued nature to such a lowness.’]

_The little dogs._ _King Lear_, III. 6.

_So I am._ _King Lear_, IV. 7.

_O now for ever._ _Othello_, III. 3.

6. _Never, Iago._ _Othello_, III. 3.

_But there where I have garner’d._ _Othello_, IV. 2.

_Moore._ Edward Moore (1712–1757), author of _The Gamester_ (1753).

_Lillo._ George Lillo (1693–1739), author of _The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell_ (1731).

7. _As Mr. Burke observes._ _Sublime and Beautiful_,