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Excerpt from Few Words in Reply to the Animad-Versions of Mr. Dyce on Mr. Hunter's Disquisition on the Tempest (1839) And His New Illustrations of the Life, Studies Writings of Shakespeare (1845)
I am unwilling to enter again on anything like a full expo sition of the view which I take of the instigation scene in Macbeth, especially with so slight an invitation as the remarks of Mr. Dyce on the substitution of boast for beast by Mr. Collier's manuscript-corrector. I perfectly agree with him that there is no propriety in such a substitution on the contrary, it appears to me a material deterioration of a text already sufficiently corrupt. Beast is best defended, if it can be defended at all, by Mr. Foster, in the passage quoted from him by Mr. Dyce, as used in opposition to Man but this explanation, though very uncertain, will appear more deserving of acceptance, if we take it in connection with the restoration of the words forming the context, as given by me in 1845.
It is very much to be regretted that we should find Mr. Collier, an editor of film editions of Shakespeare, recollecting so little of the varieties of text in this much talked of scene, as to state in terms, after giving us the text.
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