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A great part of what are called the reading public have no sense of the difference between a Baskerville and a Bungay edition, and the only idea they have as to the superior intrinsic value of one edition over another is, that it should be the latest.' Hence, in buying a copy of Jeremy Taylor's Sermons, for example, they would probably turn with contempt from the finest old folio of 1668 or 1678, and select with unhesitating preference the smug octavo edition of Mr. Tegg, in which we lately noticed one of the noblest passages of the great preacher disfigured and rendered unintelligible by having spritefulness of the morning' converted into 'spitefulness." "Charles Lamb declares that he could never read Beaumont and Fletcher but in folio, and that he did not know a more heartless sight than the octavo reprints of the Anatomy of Melancholy. Any one who wishes to read the pure text of Taylor, or to obtain any certainty as to what he really wrote, must have recourse to editions published in the author's lifetime. His singular phraseology, the unexpectedness of his turns of thought, and the not unfrequent obscurity of his language, are constantly apt to throw out the printers, and a fine muddle they occasionally make of him. In any ordinary copy of the Holy Dying, for example, on turning to chap. i. sect. 3, § 3, we meet with the following passage: "And let us awhile suppose what Dives would have done if he had been loosed from the pains of hell, and permitted to live on earth one year. Would all the pleasures of the world have kept him one hour from the Temple? Would he not have been perpetually under the hands of priests, or at the feet of the doctors, or by Moses' chair, or attending as near the altar as he could, or relieving poor Lazarus'? &c. 're "Now, it might surely have occurred to any one, that as Lazarus is represented in the Gospel narrative as having died before Dives, and as Taylor's supposition does not include his coming to life again along with the latter, there is something like absurdity in the idea of one of the engagements of his renewed life being that of lieving poor Lazarus.' But if we refer to the edition of 1652, we shall find that the absurdity in question does not belong to Taylor, and we shall also have the satisfaction of lighting on one of those quaint felicities of thought [and diction] which are so characteristic of this Divine, and which in all probability would never have occurred to any other writer but himself. The true reading is Lazars, not Lazarus. And yet in every edition we have happened to look into, ranging from about 1670 downwards to the present time, the absurd and nonsensical reading Lazarus occurs." There is something peculiarly felicitous in the use of the word lazars here, as its connection with Lazarus is vividly brought out, and we have it in all the racy force and freshness of its original derivation. The correction is an important one, and obvious enough, and it is strange it has not been made before. In the thirteenth edition of the Holy Dying, Lond. 1682, and in Mr. Eden's edition, both of which are before me, the error occurs. Sermon XI. p. 466: "he quits a convenient lodging room, and purchases a glorious country." The whole passage shows that inconvenient is the word intended. In Sermon XVI. Part 2, Taylor contrasts the "and spriteful nutriment" suited to the spare student and contemplative man, with the coarse abundance which the labouring man requires : :--- "As the tender and more delicate easily-digested meats will not help to carry burdens upon the neck, and hold the plough in society and yokes of the laborious oxen; so neither will the pulse and the leeks, Lavinian sausages, and the Cisalpine suckets or gobbets of condited bull's flesh, minister such delicate spirits to the thinking man; but his notion will be as flat as the noise of the Arcadian porter, and thick as the first juice of his country lard, unless he make his body a fit servant to the soul, and both fitted for the employment."-vol. iv. p. 200. What is the meaning of this extraordinary passage? One might almost think that Taylor himself had been feeding on the aforesaid "suckets or gobbets of condited bull's flesh," and regaling himself with Boeotian porter, so crude and barbarous and unintelligible "his notion" and expression. Sermon XIX. p. 569: Taylor speaks of "the soul of a tyrant, or a violent and vicious person, feeling butcheries"; which seems to be his pecu |