TICAL

A CRITICAL EXAMINATION

OF THE

TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE.

A CRITICAL EXAMINATION

OF THE

TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE,

WITH

REMARKS ON HIS LANGUAGE AND THAT

OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES,

TOGETHER WITH

NOTES ON HIS PLAYS AND POEMS.

BY

WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER,

FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,

36, SOHO SQUARE.

1860.

BIBLIOTHECA

REGIA

MONACENSIS.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY F. PICKTON,

PERRY'S PLACE, 29, OXFORD STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

ART.

XLIV.-Entreates for entreaties.

XLV.-Eare and care confounded

XLVI.-Your misprinted for our

XLVII.—Delighted and delicious

XLVIII.-Words omitted in the first folio

XLIX.

-Good peculiarly employed

L.-Creature frequently pronounced as a trisyllable

LI.-On treasure and pleasure as trisyllables

LII.-Accentuation of poltroon, buffoon, baboon .

LIII.-Derivation of certain proper names in Shakespeare

LIV.-Pronunciation of past participles ending in fied

LV.-Peculiar use of vast

LVI.-Briton and Britain.