[134] This article is printed in Scott's edition of Swift's Works.
[137] "Why, let the stricken deer go weep" ("Hamlet," act iii. sc. 2, l. 282.)
[142] Steevens brought forward the fact that the author of the _Tatler_ here quotes from Davenant's alteration of Shakespeare's play as an argument to prove how little Shakespeare was read. De Quincey made some excellent remarks on this subject in his "Life of Shakespeare." ("Encyclopædia Britannica," 7th ed.)
[143] "How scaped I killing when I crossed you so?" ("Julius Cæsar," act iv. sc. 3.)
[145] "There is no criticism of Shakespeare in that day at all comparable to this of Steele's, at the outset and to the close of the _Tatler_. With no set analysis or fine-spun theory, but dropped only here and there, and from time to time with a careless grace, it is yet of the subtlest discrimination.... He ranks him as high in philosophy as in poetry, and in the ethics of human life and passion quotes his authority as supreme. None but Steele then thought of criticising him in that strain." (Forster.)
[149] "The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion Inquired into" was published by Dr. John Eachard in 1670.
From _Thursday, Sept. 15_, to _Saturday, Sept. 17, 1709_.
----Quid oportet Nos facere, a vulgo longe latèque remotos?