Chapter LII: Act I: SCENE 1. Page 187

LAF. A fistula, my Lord.

What Mr. Steevens calls the _inelegance_ of the king's disorder is not to be placed to Shakspeare's account; for it is specifically mentioned both in Painter's story of _Giletta_, and in Boccaccio himself. It is singular that the learned critic should not have remembered this.

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COUNT. Where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there
commendations go with pity; they are virtues and traitors too.

The explanations of this speech appear to be too refined; and Dr. Warburton's, as usual, particularly so. The meaning is simply this:--_where strong and useful talents are combined with an evil disposition, we feel regret even in commending them; because, in such a mind, however good in themselves, their use and application are always to be suspected_.

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CLO. A _prophet_ I madam.

A reconsideration of these words have suggested the necessity of cancelling _both_ the notes, for the clown is not a _natural_, but an _artificial_ fool.

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HEL. Indeed, my mother! or were you _both our mothers_.

This strange and faulty language deserved notice. It should have been, _or were you so to both_.