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better. More and pour as eaſily become mo-er and pow-er, as ſour and hour become ſow-er and how-er; and arm, by a vulgar provincial pronunciation not yet wholly diſuſed becomes a-rum, as eaſily as alarm is converted into alarum; two words that undoubtedly had the ſame etymology.—But of theſe verbal diſquiſitions enough.
Let us now examine the complaint to which theſe notes of Mr. Tyrwhitt's have given birth. "The editor" [i. e. Mr. M.] we are told, "has inſerted both Mr. Tyrwhitt's notes, without taking notice of the concluſive reply already made to the latter." This reply, I muſt inform you, appears to have been made by this ſagacious remarker himſelf. Hinc illæ lacrymæ.—But how ſtands the fact? The comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona was printed in the year 1786. It ſhould ſeem therefore not to have been a crime of very great magnitude not to have ſubjoined to Mr. Tyrwhitt's note a reply to it which was made two years afterwards, viz. in 1788. It might however, we ſhall perhaps be told, have been inſerted in the Appendix. But unluckily to this there was an unſurmountable objection; which was, that the editor had originally reſolved not to encum-
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