ABSTRACT
The practice of altering Shakespeare is like that of mending an old Roman causeway by the hands of a modern paviour, tho’ far less excusable, because not undertaken for use or convenience. A man of true taste will have more pleasure in seeing the ruins of a Grecian temple than in
examining all the commodities of the neatest box in Hackney, or in Hammersmith: even the irregularity of some Gothic edifices exhibits a rude, stupendous grandeur which, notwithstanding all its incorrectness, strikes the beholder with admiration and awe.
