A yearly solemn feast she wonts to _make_. F. Q. ii. 2. 42. Now, as the rimes are _hold_, _told_, the poet must have written, or have intended to write, _hold_. That doth against the dead his hand uprear. Ib. ii. 8. 29. Here the word must have been _upheave_, the rimes being _leave_, _cleave_, _bereave_. When walking through the garden them she _spied_. Ib. iii. 6. 40. As the rimes are _law_, _draw_, we must of course read _saw_. Of finest gold. The fifth game was a great new standing _bowl_, To set down both ways. These brought in, Achilles then stood up. Chapman, Iliads, xxiii. 249. The right word, it is quite plain, is _cup_. Or painful to his slumbers; easy, _sweet_, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night. Fletch. Valentinian, v. 2. Here, as it has been shown, the proper word is _light_; yet Mr. Dyce has not ventured to receive it. Mi si scoperse; onde mi nacque un _ghiaccio_ Nel core, ed evvi ancora, E sarà sempre, fin ch'io le sia in braccio. My late friend Rossetti, in copying out this passage of Petrarca in his Amor Platonico, etc., wrote _gelo_ for _ghiaccio_, and never saw the error, even in reading the proof; and so it is printed. On the other hand, the adjacent or riming lines sometimes terminate in the same word. There are many instances in Shakespeare, and I have met with the following in Italian. Ciascun de' cavalieri ebbe _e sergenti_ Ed al servizio suo donne _e sergenti_. B. Tasso, Amadigi, xxii. 67. where, as the rimes show, the first line should end with _una stanza_. Bears in his boasted fan an Iris _bright_, When her discoloured bow she spreads through heaven _bright_. F. Q. iii. 11. 47. We meet also with places where the sense or the metre, unaided by rime, must be our guide in correcting--_ex. gr._, The round earth, heaven's great queen and Pallas to whose bands. Chapman, Iliads, i. 395. Here the metre shows that the right word is _Minerva_, not _Pallas_. There is one most remarkable case of substitution to which sufficient attention has never been given by the critics. It may be termed _reaction_ or _repetition_, and arises from the impression made by some particular word on the mind of the transcriber or printer, or even of the writer himself. Thus in a proof-sheet of my Milton I found A _furnace_ horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed. Par. Lost, i. 61. while the word before the compositor's eyes was _dungeon_.