"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right."
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Source: 'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 108)
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