- cid
- bafkreiaoiffmwijblks7uj46s3v6i6uctnw2tgg4hmbwu4x7osbq3surxe
- content_type
- image/jpeg
- filename
- 06_poems_pericles_facsimiles_1905_oxford_page_0333.jpg
- height
- 2400
- key
- pdf-page-1769752492148-r9qfddk1if8
- ocr_model
- mistral-ocr-latest
- page_number
- 333
- size
- 481860
- text
- 44 THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
and Jaggard reads:—
She will not stick to round me on th’ are.
No. XIII.
Suppositi-
tions MS.
The poem No. XIII (‘Beauty is but a vaine’) was printed in 1750 in the Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xx, p. 521, under the title ‘Beauty’s Value by Wm. Shakespeare. From a corrected MS.’ This was reprinted with what was claimed to be greater accuracy in the same periodical ten years later (vol. xxx, p. 39). The variations are not important, and have a too pronouncedly eighteenth-century flavour to establish their pretension to greater antiquity. In line 7, where Jaggard reads:—
And as goods lost, are *seld or never* found.
the Gentleman’s Magazine manuscript reads:—
As goods *when* lost are *wond’rous* seldom found.
To improve the rhymes ‘refresh’ and ‘redress’ (at the end of lines 8 and 10 respectively), the ‘corrected’ manuscript reads awkwardly ‘excite’ in the first case and ‘unite’ in the second. There can be little question that search must be made elsewhere for any contemporary illustration of this poem of Jaggard’s miscellany.
Theory of Barnfield’s authorship of the poems in six-line stanzas.
The authorship of these five poems, which Jaggard first printed from manuscript, can in the present state of the evidence be matter for conjecture only. It is very possible that they are from Barnfield’s pen. Barnfield was a voluminous writer, and not all his verse found its way to the printing-press. Much of it circulated in manuscript only, and is still extant in that medium.¹ It is probable, moreover,
¹ Dr. Grosart printed in full, in his edition of Barnfield’s Poems for the Roxburghe Club, a ‘manuscript’ commonplace book bearing Barnfield’s autograph, which was in the library of Sir Charles Isham of Lamport Hall. The volume contained some previously unprinted poems from Barnfield’s pen together with transcripts of others’ work. The first page gives, without indication of its
- text_extracted_at
- 2026-01-30T06:16:45.894Z
- text_extracted_by
- ocr-service
- text_has_content
- true
- text_images_count
- 0
- text_source
- ocr
- uploaded
- true
- width
- 1750