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- LUCRECE 37
were accepted by Gildon, who brought out an edition of Shakespeare's ‘Poems,’ by way of supplement to Rowe’s collective edition of Shakespeare’s plays, in 1710.¹ Gildon did little more than reproduce the poor text of 1707, and his text was accepted without inquiry by other eighteenth-century editors. Lintott, in one of his impressions of Shakespeare’s ‘Poems’ in 1709, gave *Lucrece* a title-page bearing the date 1632, but he did not follow the edition of that year with much precision. It was not until Malone reprinted the poems in 1780, that any collation was attempted of the current text with the first edition of 1594. Then at length the poet’s words were freed of a century and a half’s accumulation of ignorant misreadings.
## VI
EIGHT editions of *Lucrece* are known to have been published between its first issue in 1594 and 1655, when the last of the seventeenth-century editions appeared. Four editions came out in Shakespeare’s lifetime respectively, in 1594, 1598, 1600, and 1607. A fifth followed in 1616, the year of his death, and others in 1621, 1632, and 1655. The number of extant copies of all these early editions are very few, and it is possible that there were other editions, of which every exemplar has disappeared. Malone mentions editions of 1596 and 1602, but no editions dated in either of these years have come to light.² Two of the known editions
¹ ‘woman’ for ‘workman’; L 1736, ‘in pure Revenge’ for ‘in poor revenge’. The substitution of ‘foul lust’ (L 684) for ‘prone lust’ and of ‘peal’d’ for ‘plld’ (in the sense of ‘peeled’) in lines 1167 and 1169 were attempts to make difficult words clear to eighteenth-century readers.
¹ See *Venus and Adonis*, Introduction, pp. 71–2.
² An edition which was once in the possession of Halliwell-Phillipps lacked a title-page and was at one time declared by him to belong to the year 1610, but this is probably a copy of the edition of 1632 (see No. XXIX *infra*).
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