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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play
As it is some time since my opinions have had the good fortune to coincide With yours in the least matter of consequence, I begin to think so indifi'e rently of my own judgment, that I am ready to give it up without reluctance on the present occasion. You are at liberty to leave out whatever parts of my note you please. However we may privately disagree, there is no reason why we should make sport for the world, for such is the only effect of public controversies neither should I have leisure at present to pursue such an undertaking. I only meant to dofjustice to myself: and as I had no Opportunity o replying to your reiterated contradic tions in their natural order, on account of your per petual additions to them; I thought myself under the necessit of observing, that I ought not to be suspected o bein impotently silent in regard to objections which I had never read till it was too late for any replication on my side to be made. You rely much on the authority of an editor; but till I am convinced that volunteers are to be treated with less indulgence than other soldiers, I shall still think I have some ri ht at least to be disgusted; especiall after I ha been permitted to observe. That trut not victory, was the object of our criti cal warfare.
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