It is easy to underestimate the value of Hanmer's edition; his happy conjectures have been prejudiced by his neglect of the older copies and his unfortunate attempt to regularise the metre; but what alone concerns us here is that he reverts to the methods which Theobald had discarded.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
That would regularise his position.
"Gossamer 1915"
George A. Birmingham
In 1626 the Dutch merchant was appointed by the king acting-manager of the copper mines, which were royal property; and, in order to regularise his position and give him greater facilities for the conduct of his enterprises, the rights of Swedish citizenship were conferred by royal patent upon him.
"History of Holland"
George Edmundson