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What, too, did the forger propose to gain by putting, at great pains to himself, commas, in passages like this, from "Timon of Athens," Act IV. Sc. 2: "To have his pompe, and all state comprehends, But onely painted like his varnisht Friends"?

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859