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- VENUS AND ADONIS 53
Leake’s edition of 1600 has some textual importance, which gives it a better title to rank with its predecessors of 1593 and 1594 than with any other issue. It contains a few typographical variations which have some intrinsic interest. The more notable changes are:—‘smothers’ (54) for ‘murthers’; ‘ill-natur’d’ (134) for ‘ill-nurtur’d’; ‘the parke’ (231) for ‘a parke’; ‘kisses’ (519) for ‘touches’; ‘sight’ (746) for ‘fight’; ‘imperial’ (748) for ‘impartial’; ‘their obscuritie’ (760) for ‘darke obscuritie’; ‘Bids the leave quaking, wills them feare no more’ (899) for ‘Bids them leave quaking, bids them feare no more’; ‘imperial’ (996) for ‘imperious’; ‘and shall be blasted’ (1142) for ‘bud, and be blasted’; ‘sharpest sight’ (1144) for ‘truest sight’; ‘seemes most’ (1157) for ‘showes most’. That the hand of an editor, albeit of a clumsy kind, is responsible for these alterations may be deduced from the somewhat complete reconstruction of line 574 by the same pen. The old reading, ‘What though the rose have prickles, yet tis pluckt?’ is replaced by ‘What though the rose have pricks? yet is it pluck’d.’
The further emendations which distinguish subsequent editions are comparatively unimportant. But typographical alterations, mostly of a minute kind, never ceased. By the time the text reached editors and printers of the eighteenth century it had gradually travelled far from that of the original issue, all copies of which for a long time disappeared. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Malone recovered a copy of the *editio princeps*, and with its aid he restored the text to its primordial shape.
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