Yet _Scaliger_ could confess to _Salmasius_ how little satisfaction his emendations gave him.
_Illudunt nobis conjectureae nostrae, quarum nos pudet, posteaquam in meliores codices incidimus_.

And _Lipsius_ could complain, that criticks were making faults, by trying to remove them, _Ut olim vitiis, ita nunc remediis laboratur_.

And indeed, where mere conjecture is to be used, the emendations of _Scaliger_ and _Lipsius_, notwithstanding their wonderful sagacity and erudition, are often vague and disputable, like mine or _Theobald_'s.
Perhaps I may not be more censured for doing wrong, than for doing little; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered.

The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical.

It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible to be done.