[Sidenote: my] The leaperous Distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with bloud of Man, That swift as Quick-siluer, it courses through The naturall Gates and Allies of the Body; And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset

As an example, under Distilment he correctly quotes from Hamlet, 'And in the porches of mine ears did pour the leperous distilment.'

As an example, under Distilment he correctly quotes from Hamlet, 'And in the porches of mine ears did pour the leperous distilment.'

But when he reached Instilment, his memory became vague, and forgetting that he had already quoted the passage under Distilment, he quoted it again as 'the leperous instilment'a reading which does not exist in any text of Shakspere, and was a mere temporary hallucination of memory.

But the loathly "leperous distilment" taints and spoils, without in any way subserving "perfection," artistic or otherwise.

If the breathings of human woe, if the midnight misery of wretched, broken hearts, could have penetrated these stones, one might almost fancy that they would have sweat with human histories in the ditch where they lay, and discolored the puddles they bridged with the bitter distilment of grief centuries old.