MISPLACED WORDS IN SHAKSPEARE'S TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

In that immaculate volume, the first folio edition of Shakspeare, of which Mr. Knight says: "Perhaps, all things considered, there never was a book so correctly printed"! a passage in *Troilus and Cressida*, Act. v. Sc. 3., where Cassandra and Andromache are attempting to dissuade Hector from going to battle, is thus given: "*And.* O be perswaded: doe not count it holy, To hurt by being iust; it is lawful: For we would count giue much to as violent thefts, And rob in the behalfe of charitie." Deviating from his usual practice, Mr. Knight makes an omission and a transposition, and reads thus: "…