And just and pitous and alway y-liche.
That it was a blissful noise to here.
That it a blissful noise was to here.
In the Faerie Queene, we have
Was like enchantment, that through both his eyes
And both his ears, did steal his heart away.
vi. 2. 3.
Here, as the riming line ends in appears, we must transpose "eyes" and "ears." Again, in all editions of Parnell's poems, from the first (edited by Pope), we read in the Hermit,
Then with the sun a rising journey went,
where both the context and common sense show that "rising" properly belongs to "sun." The original printer, however, joined it with "journey," and he has been, of course, duteously followed by his successors, while editors never seem to have discerned the incongruity.