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REPLY1850

Malone's Blunder

By C.

"Mr. BOLTON CORNEY," in his answer on this subject, says very justly, that "before we censure a writer, we should consult his own edition." He has, however, not followed this excellent principle in this case, for he has certainly not looked at the Irish edition of Malone, on which the question arises. He has repeated what I had already stated (No. 24. p. 386.), that the mistake was *not* a blunder of *Malone's*; and he has also pointed out, what had escaped me, Malone's supplemental note containing the first *three* articles of the pretended will of *John* Shakspeare: but when he adds that the…

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