Their language is considerably modernized, a process constantly going on where transcription is the means of transmissionnot to mention that the actors would of course make many changes to the speech of their own time.

Since that time not only have misprints been preserved and multiplied, but punctuation has been deliberately modernized, to the destruction of the freshness of the original style, and editors of another 'understanding age' have also taken upon themselves by many a little touch to correct Addison's style or grammar.