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MAL. M,-But then there is no consonancy in the sequel; that suffers under probation: A should follow, but O does.

FAB. And O shall end, I hope."

SIR TO. Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry, O.

MAL. And then I comes behind;

FAB. Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels, than fortunes before you.

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Mal. M,O, A, I;—This simulation is not as the former :-and yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these letters are in my name. Soft; here follows prose.-If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Thy fates open their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them. And, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh. Be opposite' with a kins

5 And O shall end, I hope.] By O is here meant what we now call a hempen collar. JOHNSON.

I believe he means only, it shall end in sighing, in disappointment. So, in Romeo and Juliet:

Why should you fall into so deep an O?"

Again, in Decker's Honest Whore, second part, 1630: “—the brick house of castigation, the school where they pronounce no letter well, but O!" Again, in Hymen's Triumph, by Daniel, 1623 :

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"Like to an O, the character of woe." STEEVENS.

are born great,] The old copy reads are become great. The alteration by Mr. Rowe. STEEVens.

It is justified by a subsequent passage in which the clown recites from memory the words of this letter. MALONE.

"Be opposite-] That is, be adverse, hostile. An opposite, in the language of our author's age, meant an adversary. See a

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