nant's
version.'

[Footnote 1: A third editor was afterwards added. Mr Luard's
election to the office of Registrary compelled him to relinquish
his part, at least for the present; and the first volume,
consequently, is issued under the responsibility of two editors
only.]

[Footnote 2: See page xxi.]

[Footnote 3: A passage in the _Return from Parnassus_ compared
with one in Bale's preface to his _Image of Both Churches_ puts
this almost beyond a doubt.]

[Footnote 4: Mr Wright in his preface to _Bacon's Essays_ mentions
that he has collated ten copies of the edition of 1625, 'which
though bearing the same date, are all different from each other in
points of no great importance.']

[Footnote 5: Mr Bohn is mistaken in saying that the Capell copy
has both titles. It has that of 1664 only, with the portrait, and
B. J.'s verses underneath on the opposite page.]

[Footnote 6: Capell's copy now before us contains the following
note in Capell's hand-writing: 'This copy of Mr Theobald's
edition was once Mr Warburton's; who has claim'd in it the notes
he gave to the former which that former depriv'd him of and made
his own, and some Passages in the Preface, the passages being put
between hooks and the notes signed with his name. E. C.' The
passage quoted from Theobald's Preface is one of those between
hooks.]

[Footnote 7: Thomas Rymer, whose book, called _A short View of
Tragedy of the last Age_, 1693, gave rise to a sharp controversy.]

[Footnote 8: Capell, who might be supposed to write 'sine ira et
studio,' denies to Theobald even this merit: 'His work is only
made a little better [than Pope's] by his having a few more
materials; of which he was not a better collator than the other,
nor did he excel him in use of them.' The result of the collations
we have made leads us to a very different conclusion.]

[Footnote 9: Notwithstanding this claim of identity, Warburton
seems to have used Theobald's text to print from. Capell
positively affirms this, (Preface, p. 18).]

[Footnote 10: Dr Johnson told Burney that Warburton, as a critic,
'would make two-and-fifty Theobalds cut into slices.' (Boswell's
_Life of Johnson_, Vol. ii. p. 85. Ed. 1835). From this judgment,
whether they be compared as critics or editors, we emphatically
dissent.]

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