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Thieves, Senators, Poet, Painter, Jeweller, and Mer chant; with Servants and Attendants.

SCENE, Athens; and the Woods not far from it.

From Lucian's Dialogues.

Of this Play there is no Edition known but that of the Players.

ACT I. SCENE I.

A Hall in TIMON'S House.

Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, and Merchant, at Several doors.

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OOD day, Sir.

POET.

Pain. I am glad y'are well.

Poet. I have not seen you long. How goes

the world?

Pain. It wears, Sir, as it goes.
Poet. Ay, that's well known.

* But what particular rarity? what so strange,

But what particular rarity? &c.] Our author, it is obfervable, has made his poet in this play a knave. But that it might not reflect upon the profeffion, he has made him only a pretender to it, as appears from his having drawn him, all the way, with a false taste and judgOne infallible mark of which, is a fondness for every thing strange, surprizing and portentous; and a difregard for whatever is common, or in nature. Shakespear therefore has with great delicacy of judgment

ment.

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Which

put his poetaster upon this inquiry. WARBURTON.

The learned commentator's note must shift for itself. I cannot but think that the passage is at present in confufion. The Poet asks a question, and stays not for an answer, nor has his question any apparent drift or confequence. I would range the paffage thus:

Poet. Ay, that's well known.
But what particular rarity?
what so strange,
That manifold record not
matches?

Paint.

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