Note 16 — PROOF-READING AND CORRECTING.
Reading edition
The following epitaph was no doubt written by a printer after performing the most disagreeable task attendant on his profession:—
No more shall copy bad perplex my brain, No more shall type’s small face my eyeballs strain; No more the proof’s foul page create me troubles, By errors, transpositions, outs, and doubles: No more my head shall ache from author’s whims, As overrunnings, driving-outs, and ins; The sturdy pressman’s frown I now may scoff, Revised, corrected, finally wrought off.