(13.) SO CORIOLANUS, pag. 128.

That to's Pow'r he would

Have made them Mules, filenc'd their Pleaders, and * Difproperty'd their Freedoms.

I am afraid of growing too luxuriant in Examples of this Sort, or I could ftretch out the Catalogue of them to a great Extent. I fhall only fhew by a few Inftances that it is as familiar with him to make Verbs out of Adjectives, and fo fhall return to

All the Editions, that I have seen, read, I think, more rightly,

We doubt IT nothing.

i. e. We in no wife doubt, but you will.

XI. Ibid. Page 354.

But yo umust know, your father loft a father,
That father [] his, &c.

All the Editions, that I have met with, old and modern, (and
fo, I know, the Players to this Day constantly repeat it,) read,

But you must know, your Father loft a Father,
That Father loft, lost his;

The Reduplication of the Word lost here gives an Energy and an Elegance, which is much easier to be conceiv'd, than explain'd in Terms. Every Reader of this Poet, however, must have obferv'd how frequent it is with him to use this Figure, (which the Rhetoricians have call'd Anadiplofis ;) where he intends either to affert or deny, augment or diminish, or add a Degree of Vehemence to his Expreflion. Of this Ufage, were it necessary, I could bring a great Number of Examples; but the Inftances, that I can at prefent remember in him, which feem most to resemble this before us, are the following.

(1.) OTHELLO, pag. 483.

The Duke does greet you, General,

And be requires your haft, poft-haft Appearance
Ev'n on the Inftant.

(2.) First Part of HENRY IV. pag. 239.
And That would nothing fet my Teeth on Edge,
Nothing fo much as mincing Poetry.

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