A Letter to David Garrick Esq Concerning a Glossary to the Plays of Shakespear
A Letter to David Garrick Esq Concerning a Glossary to the Plays of Shakespear
Richard Werner
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Of this take an inftance or two : they came to Ophir, and f?. T from thence gold; four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon. I Kings, ix. 28. Even the famous Britomart it was, Whom ftrange adventure did from Britain _/*/ To feek her lover, (love far fought alas !) Whofe image {he had feen in Venus looking- glafs. Spenfer, Fairie Queene, B. Iii. C. I. Sc. 8. The Poet prays you then with better thought To fit ; and when his cates are all in brought, Though there be none far-.../*r, there will dear bought Be fit for ladies : fome for lords, knights, Yquires ; Some for your waiting- went h, and city-wires ; Some for your men, and daughters of White- fryers. Ben Jonfin, Silent woman, Prologue Many like inftances might be given. And I cannot but obferve, that if this method fhould prevail, of changing the lacgu^gc of the age into modern Engliih, cur ve- nerable bard may, in time, be made to look as aukward as his cotemporary Sir K Phil-p 7 4 A LETTERTO Philip Sidney now does, as trick'd out by the hands of his modern tire-woman Mrs.
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