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Armenia or Armorica. But in this instance, brought out as was 

 Zocrine in the reign of Elizabeth, when the wealth of America lately- 

 found, was the common talk, it is likely that the disputed word is 

 right. In regard to a sentence in Salverte's "History of the Names 

 of Men, Nations and Places," (vol. ii. p. 158), which sets forth that 

 "two Welsh colonies that have been settled in America for the last 

 five centuries, still call the island from which their forefathers sailed, 

 Brydon" — one is at first inclined to think that America is here 

 Armorica, having in memory the passage to be seen in some copies 

 of Nennius about the "Britones Armorici qui ultra mare sunt," i, e. 

 in Western Gaul or Brittany (p. 21). But on second thoughts, it 

 seems probable that Salverte is referring to the emigrants under the 

 somewhat mythic Madoc of whom Southey sings. 



As a specimen of an early misprint continuing through many 

 editions, I adduce a passage from the works of Bishop Jeremy Tay- 

 lor. In all the common editions of his treatise, entitled " The Eule 

 and Exercises of Holy Dying," in the third section of the second 

 chapter (vol. i. p. 528), the words "relieving poor Lazarus" occur, 

 yielding, as read in connection with the context, a fair sense. But 

 in the edition of 1652, the expression is "relieving poor Lazars," i.e. 

 poor destitute persons. It need scarcely be mentioned that "lazar" 

 is a generalization from "Lazarus," the typical poor man in the 

 Parable. No doubt the word written down by Jeremy Taylor was 

 " Lazars " ; but this term having become, in the lapse of a few years, 

 to some extent unfamiliar, is changed in its passage through the 

 printing office into " Lazarus." The apparent meaning of the pas- 

 sage not being thereby materially affected, the altered word has 

 continued to be perpetuated in the modern editions. In the 

 "Dirige" of a "Primer" of Henry VIII. of the date 1535, "Laza- 

 rus" is written "Lazer." " Thou hast raised up again Lazer from 

 the grave when he savoured." 



- On the other hand we must be careful not to permit the re-intro- 

 duction of readings that are faulty, simply because the editio princeps 

 can be quoted as authority. The editor of Tegg's " Spectator," date 

 1860, cites the original Eolio as ground for the lection " wild fields 

 of ether" in Paper 420. The paragraph runs thus: "If we con- 

 template those wild fields of ether that reach in height as far as from 

 Saturn to the fixed stars, and run abroad almose to an infinitude, our 

 imagination finds its capacity filled with so immense a prospect," &c. 



