I wish Todd had been more careful of the originals when she did her edits, because sometimes Todd's version is all we have left.
But since the originals are unharmed in the process, Tim's thought experiments (like mine) don't strike me as more blasphemous than
what Thomas Jefferson did to the Christian Bible. It's just a way of engaging actively with the text. It should be obvious to all that our presumptuous liberties are just that--presumptuous liberties.
Personally, I prefer the active "pay"--which leverages the "ratio" notion much more forcefully--to the passivity of "be." And there's also a nice a bit of ambiguity as to whether "to / the ecstasy" goes more closely with "pay" or "in ratio."