WARBURTON's Edition. Who having un:o truth by telling oft HANMER'S Edition. Who loving an untruth and telling't oft. The author of the Revifal objects to the first emendation, because he says to make a man's memory a finner unto truth is ftrange English; and because the nominative one, with its adjective or participle, and their connecting pronoun relative, who having made, are left deftitute of any correfponding verb to which they may be referred. To the fecond he objects, because it wants the neceffary appearance of probability. He fuppofes, therefore, that a line has been dropped, and that the paffage is corrupt befides. The defect he does not prefume to fupply. A But with refpect to his objections a gainst the emendation in Warburton's C edition, if he recollects that as I am a finner to God, is ftill a very common expreffion, he will not think the expreffion, a finner unto truth, so strange; and upon a review of the passage perhaps, he will think that the verb beheve, at the end of the 4th verfe, is the verb corresponding with the nominative one, its adjective or participle, and their connecting pronoun relative. He believed, he was indeed, the Duke, like one who having made his memory so great a fir.ner to truth, by the frequent repetition of a lie, as to credit it. To make the conftruction perfect, it is confeffed that the participle baving, fhould be changed into the preteret had; but fuch inaccuracies are by no means proofs of corruption in Shakespeare's text. SCENE VI. Old Edition. Hanmer. He's gentle though not fearful. Make not too barfb a trial of him; for Not fearful, not one from whom ACT IV. SCENE 3. Old Edition. Revifal.] Lillied brims. Lillies are known to grow on the banks of Livers D E F "By fandy London's lillied banks.” Milton's Arcades, Shakespeare adds, that these flowers were ftrewed on the banks of the river to make garlands, which juftifies the alteration of twilled to lillied, for lillies were applied to this use. In twisted bands of lillies knitting Tulips never grow on the banks of ri- ACT V. SCENE II. Weak mafters though ye be. The author of the Revifal fays, he fufpects that Shakespeare wrote minifters, and fo he will find others have fufpected if he looks into Hanmer, where it is fo printed. He has throughout his work offered many emendations as his own, which are to be found in Hanmer. ACT V. SCENE 3. There I couch when owls do cry. Revifal.] Mr Warburton has proved from fact and the authority of Shakespeare, that winter is the feason when owls do cry; Ariel fays here, that he flies after the fummer; therefore he does not when owls do cry, lis in the cowflip. The paffage, confequently, to render it confiftent,fhould be pointed thus: In a cowflip's bed I lie : There I couch. When owls do cry Merry Wives of Windfor. AB. II. Sc. 6. Hoft to Ford and Sballer.] Will you go an H Warburton's.] Will you go on, Heris? Hearts is an expreffion fuited to the jovial character of mine hoft, and when fpelt the ancient way, berts, is very like the old corrupt reading. Mea Meafure for Meafure. The Duke to Angelo. We have with a prepar'd and leaven'd choice - WARBURTON. We have with a prepar'd and levell'd choice. We have with a prepar'd unleavin'd choice. Unleaven'd means unbiaffed, uncorrupt. The word leaven in Scripture, whence it is borrowed, means something corrupt and amifs. A& II. Scenes. Efcalus to Froth. Mafter Froth, I would not have you acquainted with tapfters; they will draw you mafter Froth, and you will bang them. Revifal.] The author fays this is unintelligible, and fuppofes Shakespeare wrote bang on them: that is, you will be reduced to a dependancy upon them. ACT V. Scene 7. Old Editions. Look that you love your wife; her worth HANMER and WARBURTON. Her worth works yours. Revisal,] Her worth's worth your's. Much ado about nothing. ACT V. Scene 1. Old Editions. Leonato to Antonio, If fuch a one will smile and ftroke his beard And forrow wagge: cry hem! when he fhould groan, Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk. Warburton.] And sorrow waive, Theobald.] And forrow wage ;' i. e. combat or ftrive against. Revifal. And, forrowing, cry hem, when he fhould groan. ie. while he is under the influence of forrow, disguise it. (To be continued.) B C indebted for the note fubjoined to this cafe, whether it was found in the French account, or added by the English editor; but I must take the liberty to say, the writer fhews a difpofition to fupply by faith, the deficienA cies not only of reafoning, but of obfervation. He grants, it is true, the conclufion, that when we fee animals propagate the ufual way, the parent animal was itfelf fo produced; but the wonder follows' yet creatures abound in the world, which we do not know to be fo produced. True, but there is fome difference between this, and a knowledge that they are not fo produced. It is true we are not fo well acquainted with the love adventures of microfcopic objects as we are with thofe of animals mere proporti ned to our visual organs; but we perceive the analogy hold in all the species whofe actions are visible to us. If the bull reigns fultan of the meadow, our house flies have their frisking times: Therefore there is fufficient foundation for extending the analogy to thofe tribes where obfervation will not carry us. It is true we D cannot reafon upon the first origin of the animalcula in femine mafculino, nor the afcarides; but the invariable exiftence of the fpecies, argues a regular mode of production: Add, that some unfortunate fubjects have been trou bled with peculiar worms in the ftomach, fome with legs like effs, which, while we pretend to reafon, can be no otherwife accounted for, than by the accidental (wallowing of particu lar fpawn. Of this, I once heard an inftance attended with more circumftances than I can now recollect, in à young woman who lived fome time in a lone farm houfe, where they were fupplied with water from the moat which furrounded it. The growth of fuch spawn in fo ftrange a place as the human ftomach, may be an extraordinary cicumftance, but when once effected, the animals may be much altered in their natures, and be come a peculiar fpecies adapted to the place they then inhabit. This, however, is but attempting to fupport one tortoife, whereas admitting equivocal generation, is having two to fupport. E F G Mr URBAN, London, Feb. 12. 1765. read with much curiofity the account of a diforder in the ear, as given by M. Bertrand in your last Magazine, p. 29; as it is the only cafe which has occurred to me, in any measure resembling my own; from which however it differs in two effential particulars: The firft of which is the alternate fucceffion of a difcharge, and the inflammatory fymp- H toms upon its stopping; and, fecondly, the generation of worms in the auditory cavity. With refpect to this latter circumance, I know not to whom we are Neither will this appear begging too much, when, in the vegetable world, we fee the extraordinry effects of culture. We fee vegetables fo improved as hardly to admit a comparison with their wild parents, and upon neglect, we see as remarkable a degeneracy. What What a variety of fruits owe their ar That a fortuitous affociation of matter, fhould ever unite, organize, and affume the form of an animal; and that fuch animals fo produced,fhould refemble each other fo as to obtain C generical names, is a mountain_too great for my faith to remove. Gentlemen who can admit this, will not furely find any abfurdity in receiving the notion of material intelligence : There being fewer data for the former opinion, than arguments favourable to the latter. D E The poor girl whofe cafe is related, had a running ear. In her country fituation fhe might not have, nor does it appear fhe had, a conftant care taken of it as to the keeping it topped with lint; and, while the attended country work, there is nothing extravagant in the fuppofition that fome fly might have deposited its eggs there, as well as in any other putrid place, which flies are very alert in finding out. It is not to be fuppofed that the inftance related was the only time of her fleeping in the fields, and the fun which then beat fo hot on her head, might prove as cherishing to these worms, ás burtful to the child's head, confidered independently of each other; but when we confider where thefe worms were, the effects will not difcredit the fuppofition. So that this cafe does not appear to need equivocal genera-G tion being called in to affiit in accounting for it. F Disorders in the ear happen nó doubt as frequently as in other parts, though feldom communicated to the public, and as feldom happening within the acquaintance of the particular H patients. It would not be barren of confolation and improvement, if those of your readers affected with habitual ailments in their ears were to commu nicate their cafes to each other thro the medium of your magazine; to induce others therefore to this communication, I will begin with my own. At about four years of age, I am told, I had for fome days a pain in my head, which was fucceeded by a smáll difcharge from my left ear. This running continued until about my eleventh year, when, whether it was in confequence of a crifis in this dif order, or from an accidental cold which co-operated with it, does not appear, I was attacked with a violent fever, attended with a delirium, which reduced me to an extremity beyond all expectation of recovery. In this dangerous way, I continued near three months; Dr Mead prefcribed for the fever, and feveral furgeons infpected my ear, the discharge from which, contrary to the French cafe, was during the whole time fo copious as to need dreffing more than once every day with lint, and a folded rag tied over the whole orifice; but, happily I believe for me, none of them chofe to meddle with it. At laft, to the difcredit of feveral of their prognoftications, I was fo obftinate as to get on my legs again, to the furprize of every one. I am not able to give particular circumftances, as I was then fo very young, and for part of the time in a ítate of infenfibility, but the discharge from my ear ftill continued, and more in quantity than before the illness attacked me. Soon after my recovery two or three pieces of flesh were faid to have come from my ear at different times, but whether they were really fo, or coagulations of matter, I cannot determine. What, however, is more extraordinary, I have now in my poffeffion a piece of bone which came from it. I am not anatomift fufficient to attempt a technical description of it, but the nearest fimilitude. I can find for it, is the hollow fang of a large tooth or grinder, but with more cavity in it, as it is as thin as paper. The apex of it is very blunt, and within is parted fo as to end in a double cavity; its external appearance is rough like a crumb of dried bread, its length is about a quarter of an inch. I am now about thirty two years of age; the difcharge continues tolerably regular, and but trifling, so that fresh lint every morning is the chief trouble it gives me, though it has two or three times run bloody, but that is fome Analogy between Milton's Paradife Loft, and the Scripture. 69 B fome years fince. I am apt fometimes to be vapourish, and apprehensive o fome fpeedy decay in my head, which I now can scarce think to be a found one; but I have nothing but reflexions on palt occurrences to urge, as I thank God, I enjoy common faculties as freely A as my neighbours, The running is but flight, and feems to be in a settled way fo as only to resemble a small iffue, and may probably preferve me from other ailments. I will, however, keep the faculty from me as long as I can. Though I am totally and I believe irrecoverably deaf on that fide, for this bone is doubtless part of the organ of hearing, yet no one can tell I am under fuch circumstances, as I am not particularly deaf on the whole; the other ear being quickened by the lofs of its companion, and being more exercifed. My defect in hearing is C moft fenfible to me in walking the ftreets, when the noife of the carriages is on my right fide, when it deprives me of all ambulatory conversation; for this reason I am often unmannerly enough to take the wall when it fuits me, and I can take that freedom. This, however I cannot do in all circumftances, fo that a lady of my ac1 quaintance used to fay, that when I went up Cheapfide I could hear very well, but that when I went down Cheapfide I could not hear a word the faid. I am yours, &c. I. N. Mr URBAN, Pamphlet has lately fallen into my A hands, entitled, A letter concerning Epic poems, taken from Scripture Hiftory, in which the propriety of Milton's machinery in Paradice Loft, and Mr Addifon's defence of it, are called into question.' Notwithstand- ing my pantiality to thefe admired authors, I must own myself incapable of anfwering fome of the objections which the letter-writer brings against them, One of his principal arguments is con. tained in the following paffage, upon which I fhall be glad to fee the obfervations of fome of your correfpondents. his story with fo many furprizing incidents which bear fo close an analogy with what is delivered in boly writ, that it is capable of pleafing the molt delicate reader, without giving of fence to the moft fcrupulous.** As this argument feems plaufible at first fight, and is calculated to raife fufpicions in us of our own judgement, if we diffent from it, there is a neceffity of confidering it with at• tention. Now it is evident that this method of reasoning by analogy, concerning the divine conduct, will be apt to lead us into dangerous mistakes. Incidents of our own invention may appear fimilar to thofe recorded in fcripture, & yet in fome circumftances that are concealed from our knowledge, may be materially different. For tho we fee enough to convince us that the general aim of our Creator is to promote our happiness, yet our conceptions are in many particulars too weak to difcover the particular motives of his actions, and too limited to comprehend the relation they bear to other parts of his univerfal and eDverlafting government. We may, E indeed, juftly argue by analogy, from the natural to the moral world, from "the works of Providence to the works of Grace; for we here proceed on facts, not on the vifions of fancy; we trace out a confiftency of the divine will in matters of reafon and of re⚫ velation, and fhew there are parallel 'difficulties in both, arifing from our ignorance. But the cafe is widely different when we substitute imaginary incidents instead of the real ones, and vindicate the propriety of them from their fuppofed fimilarity to the other. Befides, it would not, I believe, bé impoffible, tho' the task might appear too invidious, to point out feveral incidents in these poems, in Milton efpecially, that are fo far from having a clofe analogy with what ⚫ is delivered in holy writ, that in reaGlity they have no analogy with it at F With refpect to the incidents of thefe poems in particular, it may be further urged, that although Milton and Gefner had not only a very few circumstances upon which, to raise their poems, but were alfo to proceed with the greatest caution in every H' thing that they added out of their • own invention, yet, notwithstanding all the restraints they were under, both the one and the other has filled all. And fetting afide thefe confi- |