`So you mistake your husbands.'
Hamlet, iii. 2.
Again, idle votarist would easily become idol votarist—
`I am no idle votarist.'—Timon, iv. 3;
and long delays become transformed to longer days—
`This done, see that you take no long delays.
Titus, iv. 2.
<p 106>From the time of Gutenberg until now this similarity of sound has been a fruitful source of error among printers.
``II. Errors of the Eye.—The eye often misleads the hand of the compositor, especially if he be at work upon a crabbed manuscript or worn-out reprint. Take out a dot, and This time goes manly becomes
`This tune goes manly.' Macbeth, iv. 3.
So a clogged letter turns What beast was't then? into What boast was't then?—
`Lady M. What beast was't then,
That made you break this enterprise to me?'
Macbeth, i. 7.