In p. 144., I submit, with great deference, that turning "Aristotle's checks" into "Aristotle's ethics" is the very reverse of an improvement. What can be more intelligible than the line—
"And so devote to Aristotle's checks;"
that is, to the checks which Aristotle's rules impose upon profligacy? The idea is more poetical,
and the line runs more smoothly; while the altered line is prosaic in comparison, and the metre is not correct.
My dwindling space warns me that I must very soon pause; but these examples can be extended ad infinitum, should another opportunity be afforded me.
The instances of alterations simply unnecessary are too numerous to be recorded here. I have already a list of forty odd, selected from only eight plays.
Cecil Harbottle.
Minor Notes.
Local Rhymes, Norfolk.—