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312, 365, 420, 447, 486, 537538, and 575 in Nichols. 12 II. 54, VI. 51 in Nichols. " The First Folio text reads ''help" instead of ''Heav'n," and Thirlby writes that "the King could have but a very slight Hope of Help from her, scarce enough to swear by: and therefore Helen might suspect, he meant to equivocate with her. Besides, observe, the greatest Part of the Scene is strictly in Rhyme: and there is no Shadow of Reason why it should be interrupted here. I rather imagine, the Poet wrote; Ay, by my Scepter, and my Hopes of Heav'n" (II.
12). Possibly Warburton took exception to Theobald's suggestion that one of Pope's readings "very reasonably seduced Mr. Warburton into an ingenious [but unnecessary] Conjecture" (VII. 2) or to Theobald's quoting him on one of his emendations only to disagree with him and stick to the text (VII. 19, for example). This was hardly the ideal collaboration. " Styan Thirlby, a man of no inconsiderable talents who evidently could not find his metier. He was a pamphleteer, a classical editor, "a nominal physician," a student of civil law, as well as an abortive editor of Shakespeare.
Xlv-1; Theobald, pp. 166169. See also A. W. Evans, Warburton and the Warburtonians (Oxford, 1932), pp. 143147. " At one juncture he relays a bon mot of Warburton's"This, as my Friend Mr. Warburton merrily observes" (V. 5); at another, after a long note of his own, he writes, "I ought to acknowledge, that my Friend Mr. Warburton likewise started this very Emendation, and communicated it to Me by Letter'' (VI. 8); at still another he praises his friend's "sagacity" in sending him as an emendation what was the reading of the old editions, although Warburton ''had none of the old Editions to collate or refer to" (VII.