In the edition of Akenside above mentioned, I met with
Of triangle or circle, cube or cone,
where it is quite plain that the two first substantives had changed places in the printer's mind.
Surely Wordsworth did not write
I did not hunt after nor greatly prize.
Prelude, ed. 1858.
In a proof-sheet of my Edition, I found
And leave your brother speed to gos elsewhere.
3 Hen. VI. iv. 1.
In Troilus and Cressida, v. 2, there is a passage to which transposition, and it alone, gives sense. It is difficult to see how the printer could have made such a jumble; and yet it is manifest that he must have done so. There is, however, as I have shown in my note on the place, just such another in the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen, which the editors have made no attempt at correcting. In the following passage of Chaucer,