Passage in Hamlet

The word *modern*, instead of *moderate*, in my editions of Shakspeare, is a printer's error, which shall be corrected in the edition I am now publishing. To a person unfamiliar with printing, it might appear impossible that any compositor, with this copy before him,— "While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred," should substitute— "While one with modern haste might tell a hundred." And yet such substitution of one word for another is a constant anxiety to every editor. Some may consider that a competent editor would detect such a gross blunder. Unfortunately, the more familiar the min…