Original sentence: Others view of Richard Brown was less charitable "That moral leper who spoke of illicit love with all the levity of a sailor.The Drukken Steps in the old Eglinton Woods near Stanecastle at NS 329 404, was a favourite haunt of Burns and Richard Brown whilst the two were in Irvine in 1781–82 and a commemorative cairn off Bank Street at MacKinnon Terrace, next to the expressway, is said to stand a few hundred yards from the site of the Drukken stepping stones across the Red Burn, also said to be the site of Saint Bryde's or Bride's well, until recently, thought to have been buried beneath the road surface
Edited sentence: Others view of Richard Brown was less charitable, such as: "That moral leper who spoke of illicit love with all the levity of a sailor.The Drukken Steps in the old Eglinton Woods near Stanecastle at NS 329 404, was a favourite haunt of Burns and Richard Brown whilst the two were in Irvine in 1781–82 and a commemorative cairn off Bank Street at MacKinnon Terrace, next to the expressway, is erroneously said to stand a few hundred yards from the site of the Drukken stepping stones across the Red Burn, also said to be the site of Saint Bryde's or Bride's well.Until recently therefore, the Drukken Steps were thought to have been buried beneath the road surface