observe how the pauses are contrived to echo the sense and give the effect of flux and reflux. Versification was understood in that day as never since, and no treatise on English verse so good, in all respects, as that of Campion (1602) has ever been written. Coleridge learned from him how to write his "Catullian hendeca-syllables," and did not better his instruction.[G] [Footnote G: For the comprehension of the laws of some of the lighter measures, no book is so instructive as Mother Goose's Melodies. That excellent lady was one of the best metrists the language has produced.] In "Measure for Measure," (Act i. Sc. 1,) in this passage,-- "what's open made To justice, that justice seizes: what knows the law That thieves do pass on thieves?" does Mr. White believe the "that" and "what" are Shakspeare's? Does he consider "To justice, that justice seizes: what knows the law" an alexandrine,--and an alexandrine worthy of a student and admirer of Spenser? Should we read it thus, we should dread Martial's sarcasm of, _Sed male cum recitas_. We believe that Shakspeare wrote "What's open made To Justice, Justice seizes; knows the Law That thieve do pass on thieves?" We have pointed out a passage or two where we think Mr. White follows the Folio text too literally. Two instances we have noted where he has altered, as we think, for the worse. The first is (_Tempest_, Act iii. Sc. 3) where Mr. White reads, "You are three men of sin whom Destiny (That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in't) the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch you up,--and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad." The Folio reads, "Hath caused to belch up you"; and Mr. White says in his note, "The tautological repetition of the pronoun was a habit, almost a custom, with the Elizabethan dramatists." This may be true, (though we think the assertion rash,) but certainly never as in this case. We think the Folio right, except in its punctuation. The repetition of the "you" is emphatic, not tautological, and is demanded by the whole meaning of the passage. Ariel is taunting the persons she addresses, with the intention of angering them; and the "you" is repeated, because those highly respectable men cannot at first bring their minds to believe that such unsavory epithets are addressed to them. We should punctuate thus, following the order of the words in the Folio,-- "Hath caused to belch up,--you! and on this island, Where man doth not inhabit;--you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad." In the "Comedy of Errors," (Act ii. Sc. 2,) Adriana, suspecting her husband of unfaithfulness, says to him,-- "For, if we two be one, and thou play false, I do digest the poison of thy flesh, Being strumpeted by thy contagion. Keep, then, fair league and truce with thy true bed; I live distained, thou undishonored."