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Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
page 98 of 211 (46%)
As a later example we may cite from
Sir Peter Leycester's _Historical Antiquities_
(1673), where we find this note: ``Reader,
By reason of the author's absence, several
faults have escaped the press: those which
are the most material thou art desir'd to
amend, and to pardon them all.''

Printed mistakes are usually considered
by the sufferers matters of somewhat
serious importance; and we picture to
ourselves an author stalking up and down
his room and tearing his hair when
he first discovers them; but Benserade,
the French poet, was able to make a joke
of the subject. This is the _rondeau_ which
he placed at the end of his version of _Les
Metamorphoses d'Ovide_:--

``Pour moi, parmi des fautes innombrables,
Je n'en connais que deux considrables,
Et dont je fais ma dclaration,
C'est l'entreprise et l'excution;
A mon avis fautes irrparables
Dans ce volume.''


According to the _Scaligerana_, Cardan's
treatise _De Subtilitate_, printed by Vascosan

in 1557, does not contain a single

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