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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: arranging these Tales for the press, hath more consulted his own
fancy than the accuracy of the narrative; nay, that he hath
sometimes blended two or three stories together for the mere
grace of his plots. Of which infidelity, although I disapprove
and enter my testimony against it, yet I have not taken upon me
to correct the same, in respect it was the will of the deceased,
that his manuscript should be submitted to the press without
diminution or alteration. A fanciful nicety it was on the part
of my deceased friend, who, if thinking wisely, ought rather to
have conjured me, by all the tender ties of our friendship and
common pursuits, to have carefully revised, altered, and
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