adjective meant ``accustomed to ease
and delights,'' but this was not a very
successful guess, although Steevens
adopted it. Sir Thomas Hanmer altered
_delighted_ to _dilated_, and Dr. Johnson

mentions two suggested emendations,
one being _benighted_ and the other
_delinquent_. None of these suggestions can
be corroborated by a reference to the
plans of the printers' cases, but it will be
seen that the one now proposed is much
strengthened by the position of the boxes
in those plans. The suggested word is
_deleted_, which accurately describes the
spirits as destroyed, or blotted out of
existence. The word is common in the
printing office, and it was often used in
literature.

If we think only of the recognised
spelling of the word _delighted_ we shall
find that there are three letters to alter,
but if we take the older spelling, _delited_,
the change is very easily made, for it
will be noticed that the letters in the
_i_ box might easily tumble over into the
_e_ box.

There is a very curious description of
hell in Bede's _Ecclesiastical History_, where