As one great furnace flamed.

Par. Lost, i. 61.

while the word before the compositor's eyes was dungeon.

To me most fatal, me most it concerns.

Par. Reg. iv. 205: Todd's 4th edit.

Here, again, the true reading is so; yet, as most makes good sense, if the error had been in the original edition it would in all probability never have been detected. Opening by chance Bloomfield's pretty poem of The Farmer's Boy (ed. 1857), I met with

Till when up-hill the destined hill he gains.

Winter, 173.

We may find in Chaucer—

What ladies fairest ben or best dauncing,