to have seen
' into 'have laughed
to see
' and transformed a treaty '
with
London and Wise,' — a firm now of historical repute, — for the supply of flowers to the opera, into a treaty '
between
London and Wise,' which most people would take to be a very different matter. If the present edition has its own share of misprints and oversights, at least it inherits none; and it contains no wilful alteration of the text.
The papers as they first appeared in the daily issue of a penny (and after the stamp was imposed two-penny) folio half-sheet, have been closely compared with the first issue in guinea octavos, for which they were revised, and with the last edition that appeared before the death of Steele.
The original text is here given