{247} A pre-Shakespearean word of single occurrence in a single play of Shakespeare's, and proper to the academic school of playwrights. {248} _The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great_, Act v. Sc. ii. {252} It may be worth a remark that the word _power_ is constantly used as a dissyllable; another note of archaic debility or insufficiency in metre. {255} Yet another essentially non-Shakespearean word, though doubtless once used by Shakespeare; this time a most ungraceful Gallicism. {256} It may obviate any chance of mistake if I observe that here as elsewhere, when I mention the name that is above every name in English literature, I refer to the old Shakespeare, and not to "the new Shakspere"; a _novus homo_ with whom I have no acquaintance, and with whom (if we may judge of a great--or a little--unknown after the appearance and the bearing of those who select him as a social sponsor for themselves and their literary catechumens) I can most sincerely assert that I desire to have none. {261} Surely, for _sweet'st_ we should read _swift'st_. {262a} This word occurs but once in Shakespeare's plays-- And speaking it, he wistly looked on me; (_King Richard II_. Act v. Sc. 4.) and in such a case, as in the previous instances of the words _invocate_ and _endamagement_, a mere [Greek text] can carry no weight of evidence with it worth any student's consideration. {262b} This form is used four times by Shakespeare as the equivalent of Bretagne; once only, in one of his latest plays, as a synonym for Britain. {263a} Another word indiscoverable in any genuine verse of Shakespeare's, though not (I believe) unused on occasion by some among the poets contemporary with his earlier years. {263b} This word was perhaps unnecessarily altered by our good Capell to "tender." {264a} Yet another and a singular misuse of a word never so used or misused by Shakespeare. {264b} Qu. Why, so is your desire: If that the law, etc.?