text:  What he proposed to accomplish in this undertaking was "to give a more correct text from the collated copies of the old editions without any innovation or indulgence to his own private sense or conjecture; to insert the various readings in the margin and to place the suspected passages or interpolations at the bottom of the page; to this was added an explanation of some of the more obsolete or unusual words; and such as appeared to him the most striking passages were marked by a star or by inverted commas