_Errata in Braithwait's Latin Drinking-song_ (Vol. iii., p. 297.).--It is
well for us that honest Barnaby is not alive to visit upon us the
scandalous "negligences and ignorances" with which our transcript of his
song abounds; and it is no excuse perhaps to say, that _the errors almost
all of them exist in the MS. from whence the transcript was made_.
Sensitive as he has shown himself "upon the errata's," _he_ would not have
accepted the apology from us which he makes for himself. "Good reader, if
this impression have errors in it, excuse it. _The copy was obscure_;
neither was the _editor_, by reason of his distance, and employments of
higher consequence, made acquainted with the publishing of it."
"His Patavinus _erravit prelis_,
Authorem suis lacerando telis."
The following corrections, which are necessary to the sense, have been
pointed out, and have no doubt been already silently made by many of our
readers.
_Sic in MS._ _forsan._
Stanza 3. hoc _te_ amoenum hoc amoenum
reparare reperire
Stanza 4. m_e_mento m_o_mento
gustabi_t_ gustabi_s_
Stanza 5. solv_e_t solv_i_t
pot_i_s pot_u_s