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LUCRECE
numerous, suggests that there, too, an editorial pen was working albeit clumsily. Metrical considerations probably account for the following alterations:—‘so high a rate’ (line 19 of 1616 edition) for ‘such high proud rate’; ‘a date expired; and cancell ere begun’ (26) for ‘an expired date, cancell ere well begun’; ‘doth march’ (301) for ‘marcheth’; ‘beneath’ (543) for ‘under’; ‘ever dumb’ (1123) for ‘mute and dumb’; ‘throughout Rome’ (1851) for ‘thorough Rome’. In l. 1680 the substitution of ‘one woe’ for the original misprint ‘on woe’ is ingenious, and the introduction of a hyphen in l. 1018 to connect the words ‘skill’ and ‘contending’ betrays intelligence. Other variations of the earlier text are unjustifiable: ‘rue’ (455) for ‘true’; ‘feeded’ (603) for ‘seeded’; ‘bersed’ (657) for ‘hersed’; ‘mighty’ (680) for ‘nightly’; ‘foule lust’ (684) for ‘prone lust’; ‘fears’ (698) for ‘fares’; ‘of reine’ (706) for ‘or reine’; ‘disdaine’ (786) for ‘distain’; Palmers that’ (790) for ‘Palmers chat’; ‘bannes’ (859) for ‘barnes’; ‘time’ (993) for ‘crime’; omission of epithet ‘goodly’ in 1247; ‘held’ (1257) for ‘hild.’
The editions of 1624, 1632, 1655, and 1707.
The edition of 1624 follows that of 1616 servilely. Only the title-pages differ. Even the error in the signature (B4 for A4) is repeated. The edition of 1632 adds some new misprints (e.g. l. 47, ‘growes’ for ‘glowes’; l. 156, ‘konur’ for ‘honour’; l. 282, ‘cloakt’ for ‘choked’; l. 854, ‘iniquity’ for ‘impurity’). The reissue of 1655 closely adheres to that of 1632, with a few misreadings of its own. The next reprint figured in the *Poems on Affairs of State* (1707), vol. iv, pp. 143–204. The text is that of 1655, with a few worthless emendations.’ Unfortunately the crude misreadings of 1707
¹ The chief changes were:—l. 35, ‘from theevish Cares’ for ‘From theeuish cares’; l. 161, ‘the wretched hateful Lays’ for ‘& wretched hateful dales’; l. 148, ‘all’ for ‘ill’; l. 317, ‘the Needle’ for ‘her needle’; l. 650, ‘fresh false hast’ for ‘fresh fall’s haste’; l. 684, ‘foul’ for ‘prone’; l. 1520,
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