In editing the Plays, the additions made to the text should always be marked, so as not to mislead the reader. In _my_ edition, and in this volume, they are always printed in italics. 8. _Addition._--Of this also we meet with instances; but, as might naturally be expected, they are not so numerous as those of omission. In the following pages I place between brackets such words as I regard as additions made by the compositor or transcriber. As proofs of such additions being made I give the following, from the reprint of the text in my own edition of Milton's Poems. But swollen with [the] wind and the rank mist they draw. Lyc. 126. Which after [this] held the sun and moon in fee. Son. xii. To stand approved in [the] sight of God though worlds. P. L. vi. 36. From Heaven-gate not [distant] far, founded in view. Ib. vii. 618. With Hallelujahs; thus was [the] Sabbath kept. Ib. vii. 634. Nor [is] this unvoyageable gulf obscure. Ib. x. 366. Against a foe to doom express assigned [to] us. Ib. x. 926. To which I add the following:-- And out of sight escaped at the least; Yet not [of sight] escaped from the due reward Of his bad deeds. F. Q. iii. 5. 14. So it is printed in the edition of 1750. I may here add that printers have a wonderful propensity to add or omit--the former much more frequently--the letter s at the end of words. I remember having one time had to strike out in a single page no less than five of these ss thus liberally bestowed upon me. So also--but whether owing to the poet or the printer is dubious--we meet in Shakespeare with _whom_ used as a nominative. See on Winter's Tale, v. 3, _ad fin._ In making corrections relating to these finals, our only guides therefore must be grammar, logic, and poetic melody. 9. _Transposition._--Of all modes of restoring the melody, and at times the sense, of verses this is perhaps the most legitimate and the most certain. I have therefore had recourse to it without scruple; and it will be seen that in my Edition and in this volume I have thus restored the sense or the melody of about sixty lines, of which not quite a fourth had attracted the attention of preceding editors. In my Life of Milton (p. 286) will be found a very curious instance of transposition and omission combined in the poet's own reprint of Comus, neither of which he notices, though he made two corrections in one of the lines.