SONNET. Dear to the Muse is he, and well may claim. W. B. BUSBY, DEAN OF ROCHESTER. Φασι δε και Αρατον πυθεσθαι αυτου, [Τίμωνος] πως την Ομηρου ποίησιν ασφαλως κτησαιτο τον δε ειπειν, Ει τοις αρχαιοις αντιγράφοις εντυγχανοι, και μη τοις ηδη διωρθωμένοις. Diog. Laertii Timon. Amst. 4to. 1698, p. 600. "And surely, if men, by the help of that blessed art of correcting old copies, proceed to amend, and upon private fancie doe presumne thus to alter publike records, shortly wee shall have just cause generally to esteeme those copies most correct, which least have been corrected."—Explication of a place in Polybius, at the end of Sir H. Savile's Tacitus, Fo. 1622, p. 224, John Bill. Quæ in veteribus libris reperta mutare imperiti solent, dum Librariorum insectari inscitiam volunt, suam confitentur.-Quint. L. ix. c. iv. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, BY WILLIAM NICOL, CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES'S. 1832. Сімін. мед |