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Petruchio's "me" in "knock me here soimdly," and Juliet's "me" in " respites me a life," bear just the same import. It is a very hackneyed mode of speaking, not peculiar to the English language, used both in prose and verse, either in light or serious discourse. And here one cannot but remark how preposterous is that system of education which instructs a boy in the usage of a Greek pronoun, and leaves him at ripe age, and even to grey hairs, insensible of a pre- cisely similar use of the same p...ronoun in English ; which teaches him at sixteen to construe readily from a Greek Play such an instance as occurs for example in the second line of Sophocles' (Edipus Tyrannus,! and finds him at sixty, in a parallel * " The Taming of the Shrew," Act I. Sc.'S. t TtVas 7ro0' 'i^pag raaht fioi Goofcre ; 16 instance from Shakespeare, so completely at fault about the words " respites me a life/' as to be driven to mldntain that an unrivalled dramatist, a bard of bards, had represented a young lady, whose life the law could not be said so much to spare, as not to touch at all, one who was to "live the lease of nature, and pay her breath to time and mortal custom," who might survive her speech for half a century, speaking of that life as " respited,^' and its " very comfort" throughout fifty years to come, as " still a dying horror" !
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