DYCE VERSUS WARBURTON AND COLLIER—AND SHAKSPEARE'S MSS

In Mr. Dyce's *Remarks on Mr. J.P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's Editions of Shakspeare*, pp. 115, 116, the following note occurs:— "*King Henry IV., Part Second*, act iv. sc. iv. "As humorous as winter, and as sudden As *flaws* congealed in the spring of day." "Alluding," says Warburton, "to the opinion of some philosophers, that the vapours being congealed in air by cold, (which is most intense towards the morning,) and being afterwards rarified and let loose by the warmth of the sun, occasion those sudden and impetuous guests of wind which are called flaws."—COLLIER. "An interpretation alto…