Scope and Contents The only purpose of his little quotation was 'to gratify my own spleen'; the shield shall pass as his property; Warbuton's short dialogue transcribed from Shirley is incomparable - it will make a fine conclusion to his note; a 'hypercrital emendation' is 'taking an extravagant liberty with the text'; pleased with Warburton's objection to his main principle, and answer; he is proud to be allowed to copy Warburton's papers; he quarrels with Warburton 'for saying one word of your upbraiders';...