340—to John Murray
Stilton, Oct. 3, 1813.
Dear Sir,—I have just recollected an alteration you may make in the proof to be sent to Aston.—Among the lines on Hassan's Serai, not far from the beginning, is this:
Unmeet for Solitude to share.
Now to share implies more than
one
, and Solitude is a single gentlewoman; it must be thus:
For many a gilded chamber's there,
Which Solitude might well forbear;