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- LUCRECE 33
Small capitals.
with a capital. ‘Heaven’ is rarely allowed a capital, although ‘Ocean’ always is. It was obviously the intention of the printer to print all proper names in small capitals; but this rule, although often followed, was imperfectly carried out. Cf. line 553—
‘And moodie PLVTO winks while Orpheus playes.’
‘Pluto’ is with, but ‘Orpheus’ is without, due mark of distinction. The place-name ‘Ardea’ is in lower-case type in line 1, but in small capitals in line 1332. ‘Rome’ appears six times and is never in small capitals. Other signs of careless revision are the substitution of a small letter for a capital at the opening of line 86, and the dropping in two places of the catchword—on pp. 28 and 90. Italics are not used at all, save in the ‘Argument’, which is italicized throughout, proper names only being in roman type.
The cursive contraction for ‘m’ or ‘n’—a long line over the preceding vowel—is used thirty-eight times, commonly in order to save space. The ampersand ‘&’ (for ‘and’) occurs fifteen times for the same reason. Both symbols are employed somewhat capriciously. Their employment reflects on the skill of the printer, even if they figured in the author’s ‘copy’.
Variations in the spelling of the same word are comparatively few, but they are numerous enough to give ground for criticism. Thus we find ‘doore’ (306) and ‘dore’ (325, 337); ‘dumbe’ (268) and ‘dum’ (474); ‘nurse’ (1162) and ‘nourse’ (813); ‘opportunity’ (874, 876, 895, 932) and ‘oportunitie’ (903, 1023); ‘rankes’ (1439) and ‘ranckes’ (1441); ‘Rome’ and ‘Roome’ (1644, 1851); ‘sometime’ (1106) and ‘somtime’ (1105); ‘spirite’ (1346), ‘sprite’ (451), and ‘spright’ (121); ‘tongue’ (1465) and ‘tong’ (1463, 1718). In the case of ‘tongue’ and ‘sometime’ the variations occur within a couple of lines of one another. The curious spelling ‘pollusion’ for
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