The first errour, or rather one part of a general and complicated errour, is the computation of time, not by days, but by calendar months, which, as they are not equal one to another, may embarrass the account between the sailors and those that employ them.

How this gentleman, sir, has been deceived, and to whose insinuations his errours are to be imputed, I am at no loss to discover.

But the grossest errour of this kind is the solemn introduction of the Phoenix in the last scene; which is faulty, not only as it is incongruous to the personage to whom it is ascribed, but as it is so evidently contrary to reason and nature, that it ought never to be mentioned but as a fable in any serious poem: Virtue giv'n for lost, Deprest, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird