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A{\:d SSIGNED} {\:d TO} {\:d US} 
 is to correct the clotted errors in books and to mark
them down at proper points in the text.

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{\it But the meddlesome fool\/} who is too troubled with the itch of writing, a raw
uncultured blunderer amasses quantities of copy, seldom puts in punctuation, and
disfigures his manuscript with erasures, making the paper filthy.  

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\noindent {\it No locking up of his work for nine years;\/} no finishing touches
of the artist; he rushes his idle whims into print. Then when the critics cry
out that his work is blankly uninspired, Meddler shows his teeth and catches
at any means of defence: he snaps at the corrector and accuses him!

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\noindent {\it Booby!\/} A truce to this constant shifting of the blame on the
innocent victim in the printing house! He will never correct a text which is sound.
Now take a hint, Sir Meddler:

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\noindent {\it In the future lick your litter into shape yourself!\/} Any man
who corrects the mistakes of another receives more than his share of odium,
and not one word of thanks.

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\ctrline {A TRANSLATION BY PERCY SIMPSON OF A LATIN POEM}
\ctrline {BY CORNELIUS KIEL (OR KILIANUS)}
\ctrline {\:C Corrector of the Plantin Press at Antwerp from 1558 to 1607.}

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\ctrline {From Percy 
Simpson's ``Proofreading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth 
Centuries,'' Oxford, 1935.}

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