e verses Jonson made on
Shakespeare's death had something of satire at the bottom; for my part, I
can't discover any thing like it in them."

_Pessimum genus_, etc. Tacitus, _Agricola_, 41.

_Si ultra placitum_, etc. Virgil, _Eclogues_, vii. 27, 28.

55. _Dryden._ _Discourse concerning Satire, ad init._ (ed. W. P. Ker, ii.,
p. 18).

_Enter three Witches solus._ "This blunder appears to be of Mr. Pope's own
invention. It is not to be found in any one of the four folio copies of
_Macbeth_, and there is no quarto edition of it extant" (Steevens).

56. _Hector's quoting Aristotle._ _Troilus and Cressida_, ii. 2. 166.

57. _those who play the Clowns._ "Act iii., Sc. 4" in Pope's edition, but
Act iii., Sc. 2 in modern editions.

58. _Procrustes._ Cf. _Spectator_, No. 58.

_Note 2._ In the edition of 1728, Pope added to this note "which last
words are not in the first quarto edition."

59. _led into the Buttery of the Steward._ "Mr. Pope probably recollected
the following lines in _The Taming of the Shrew_, spoken by a Lord, who is
giving directions to his servant concerning some players:

Go, Sirrah, take them to the _buttery_,
And give them friendly welcome every one.

But he seems not to have observed that the players here introduced were
_strollers_; and there is no reason to suppose that our author, Heminge,
Burbage, Lowin, etc., who were licensed by King James, were treated in
this manner" (Malone).

_London Prodigal._ After these seven plays Pope added in the edition of
1728 "and a thing call'd the _Double Falshood_" (see Introduction, p.
xlv). It will be noted that he speaks incorrectly of "eight" plays. In the
same edition he also inserted _The Comedy of Errors_ between _The Winter's
Tale_ and _Titus Andronicus_ (top of p. 60).

60. _tho' they were then printed in his name._ His name was given on the
title-page of _Pericles_, _Sir John Oldcastle_, the _Yorkshire Tragedy_,
and the _London Prodigal_.

Lewis Theobald.

64. _above the Direction of their Tailors._ Cf. Pope, p. 51. The
succeeding remarks on the individuality of Shakespeare's characters also
appear to have been suggested by Pope.

65. _wanted a Comment._ Contrast Rowe, p. 1.

66. _Judith_ was Shakespeare's younger daughter (cf. Rowe, p. 21). It is
now known that Shakespeare was married at the end of 1582. See Mr. Sidney
Lee's _Life of Shakespeare_, pp. 18-24.

68. _Spenser's Thalia._ Cf. Rowe, pp. 6, 7. The original