'Fresh fields and pastures new.' (misquotations of the last lines of John Milton's poem 'Lycidas')

IN the Oxford Standard Edition of Milton's poems, the concluding line of `Lycidas, reads

To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.

And thus, with some variation in pointing and capitalization, the line reads in a score of other British and American editions of Milton that I have consulted.

One wonders, therefore, why the line is four times cited in a popular Victorian periodical - Dickens's Household Words with the reading

fresh fields and pastures new.

The four Household Words writers who replaced `fresh woods, by the alliterative `fresh fields, were William Howitt, Charles Kent, Robert Barnabas Brough, and Samuel Sidney.(1) …