"But heaven hath a hand in these events,
To whose high will we bound our calmly _contents_."
_Rich. II._, Act V. Sc. 2.
In conclusion, I must add that I still regard this emendatory criticism
as a "game," the Latin _ludus_, as it gives scope to sagacity and
ingenuity, but can rarely hope to arrive at certainty; and it does not,
like questions of ethics or politics, involve important interests,
and should never excite our angry feelings. As to "cogging and
falsification," which MR. A. joins with it, they can have no just
reference to _me_, as I have never descended to the employment of such
artifices.