Passage in Hamlet

In Mr. C. Knight's "Library," "Pictorial," and "Cabinet" editions of Shakspeare, the following *novel* reading is given without note or comment to say why the universally received text has been altered. It occurs in *Hamlet*, Act I. Sc. 7. *Ham.* "Staid it long? *Hor.* "While one with *modern* haste might tell a hundred." As Mr. Knight is now publishing a "National" edition of Shakspeare, perhaps you will allow me through your pages to ask for his authority for this change of "moderate" to "modern," in order that his new reading may either be justified or abandoned.