But, &c.

Or, what shall we say of the three following quotations.

ROMEO and JULIET.
--Oh! so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.

WINTER'S TALE.
--For _Cogitation_
Resides not in the man _that does not think._

HAMLET.
--Try what repentance can, what can it not?
Yet what can it, when one _cannot repent._

Who does not see at once, the heaviest foot that ever trod cannot wear
out the everlasting flint? or that he who does not think has no thoughts
in him? or that repentance can avail nothing when a man has not
repentance? yet let these passages appear, with a casting weight of
allowance, and their absurdity will not be so extravagant, as when
examined by the literal touchstone.--

Your's, &c.

LEWIS THEOBALD.

By perusing the above, the reader will be enabled to discern whether Mr.
Pope has wantonly ridiculed the passages in question; or whether Mr.
Theobald has, from a superstitious zeal for the memory of Shakespear,