Chapter XLVII: Act I: SCENE 2. Page 16
CEL. This is not fortune's work neither, but _nature's_, who perceiving
our _natural_ wits too dull to reason of such Goddesses,
hath sent this _natural_ for our whetstone.
It must be observed that Touchstone is here called a _natural_ merely for the sake of alliteration and a punning jingle of words; for he is undoubtedly an artificial fool.
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LE BEAU. More suits you to conceive, _than me_ to speak of.
The old copy had, _than I_. These grammatical errors in the use of the personal pronoun should either be _uniformly_ corrected or left entirely to themselves. Mr. Steevens in p. 9, note 7, seems to regard them as the anomalies of the play-house editors; but Mr. Malone, probably with more reason, is inclined to place them to the author's own account. If the present correction by Mr. Rowe be retained in future editions, we ought not to find such expressions as "hates nothing more than _he_," p. 14; "no child but _I_," p. 15, and _who_ for _whom_ perpetually.
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