up the various types belonging to them.
While the memory is thus repeating to
itself a phrase, it is by no means
unnatural, nor in practice is it uncommon,
for some word or words to become
unwittingly supplanted in the mind by others
which are similar in sound. It was simply
a mental transposition of syllables that
made the actor exclaim,--


`My Lord, stand back and let the parson cough '

instead of


`My Lord, stand back and let the coffin pass'
_Richard III_., i. 2.

And, by a slight confusion of sound, the
word _mistake_ might appear in type as
must take:--


`So you mistake your husbands.'
_Hamlet_, iii. 2.

Again, _idle votarist_ would easily become
_idol votarist_--