Dyce.

[DYCE'S PREFACE.

Dyce, following Seward, substitutes curse.

They'll sweare at dyce, forsweare their debts, and sweare when they loose their labour in love.

On this, Mr. A. Dyce (Works of Christopher Marlowe, 1850, I. p. xvi., note) remarks,"When

We are not aware that any old English version of this "History of Dr. Faustus" is now extant; that from which Mr. Dyce quotes is of 1648.

Indeed, he followed it so closely,as every reader can see for himself, by reading the play in Dyce's edition, and comparing it with the notes under the text,that sometimes whole scenes are copied, and even whole speeches, as, for instance, that of the Emperor Charles V. The coarse buffoonery, in particular, of which the work is full, is retained word for word.

[The text is the same in Dyce's 2d edit., vi. 326-7.] "Poetaster," act v. sc.

Dyce, ix.]

" [See Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," in v.] See Note 30 to "The Dumb Knight.

[250] [See Dyce's "Middleton," iii. 106.

Dyce.] Rather Ptolemy.

[See Dyce's "Beaumont and Fletcher," ii. 225, note.]

[Compare Dyce's second edition of Shakespeare, iii. 412.] i.e., St Leger's round.

[But compare Middleton's "Blurt, Master Constable," 1602 ("Works," by Dyce, i. 280).

Keep her away, Nebkeep her away, another pint: sosteadyvery well, dyce (anglice, thus)keep her so, and let John Bull follow us, if he dare.

This task Mr. White has undertaken, and, after such conscientious examination of his work as the importance of it demands, after a painful comparison, note by note, and reading by reading, of his edition with those of Messrs. Knight, Collier, and Dyce, our opinion of his ability and fitness for his task has been heightened and confirmed.

Sc. 2.) "'Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash, dish.' "Dryden, Theobald, Dyce, Halliwell, and Hudson would have 'trenchering' a typographical error for 'trencher,' which they introduce into the text.

[Footnote F: Mr. Dyce says the word supplied by Rowe was "fasting," a manifest slip of the pen, and worth notice only as showing how easily errors may be committed.

Mr. Dyce insisted on the same cacographical nicety in his "Remarks" on the editions of Mr. Collier and Mr. Knight, but abandons it in his own with the artless admission that misconstrue also occurs in the Folio.

Mr. Dyce and Mr. Singer are only dry commonplace-books of illustrative quotations; Mr. Collier has not wholly recovered from his "Corr.

" "Soyou're rap fulldon't fall offvery well dyce" (Anglice, thus)"keep her as you are.

The quotations are from the Gifford-Dyce edition of Shirley's Works (1833), the only collected edition that has appeared.

They are epitomized by Dyce, whose edition I have of course used.

The standard edition of Akenside's poems is that edited by Alexander Dyce (London, 1835).