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[431] [Edits., _or_, which is merely the old form of _ere_.]

[432] Mischievous, unlucky. So in ”All's Well that Ends Well,” act i.

sc. 5--

”A shrewd knave and an _unhappy_.”

See also Mr Steevens's note on ”Henry VIII.,” act i. sc. 4.

[433] _I_ formerly was the mode of writing, as well as p.r.o.nouncing, this word.

[434] [”The fine effect which is produced through the foregoing scenes by the idea of the 'Enforced Marriage' hanging on them like the German notion of Fate, is destroyed by this happy ending.”--_MS. note in one of the former edits_.]

[435] [Bond.]

[436] [So in the ballad of ”Auld Robin Gray”--

”My mother did na speak, But she look'd me in the face,” &c.

--_MS. note in one of the former edits_.]

[437] '51 edit. 1607, _letter_.

[438] _Ignes fatui_, Wills o' th' Wisp. See Mr Steevens's Note on ”King Henry VIII.,” act v. sc. 3.

[439] [Edits., _And these_. The emendation is conjectured.]

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