I.vi.7 (178,9)

Bless'd be those,

How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,

Which seasons comfort]

I am willing to comply with any meaning that can be extorted from the

present text, rather than change it, yet will propose, but with great

diffidence, a slight alteration:

--Bless'd be those,

How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,

_With reason's_comfort.--

Who gratify their innocent wishes with reasonable enjoyments.

I.vi.35 (180,2) and the twinn'd stones/Upon the number'd beach?] I know

not well how to regulate this passage. _Number'd_ is perhaps _numerous_.

_Twinn'd stones_ I do not understand. _Twinn'd shells_, or _pairs of

shells_, are very common. For _twinn'd_, we might read _twin'd_; that

is, _twisted, convolved_; but this sense is more applicable to shells

than to stones.

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