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Essays on the Stage - Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Thomas D'Urfey
page 71 of 76 (93%)
[Footnote: Collier, p.]
_number missing in original_

p. 3
the Blockheaded Chaplain had been greazing his old Cassock
_original reads_ Bockheaded ... Gassock

p. 6
in the twinkling of an Ejaculation, as Parson _Say-grace_ has it
_original reads_ Ejaculution
(source is Congreve, _The Double-Dealer_:
all texts consulted have _a_)
when I find him in this Paragraph of his Book * raving on at this rate
_asterisk in original_

p. 8
contrives to confute some canting prejudic'd Zealots
_original reads_ coutrives
would he roar it out for Blasphemy, Profaneness, &_c._
_original reads_ Balsphemy

p. 10
[Footnote: ...54]
_5 or 6 letters missing_
Again speaking of _Jupiter_ and _Alcmena_
_original reads_ Aclmena

p. 13
Yet he buffly goes on,
_so in original, possibly error for_ busily
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