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- SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE 53
musice et opprobrium contemptorij (*sic*) eiusdem. There is no sign that the poem was recognized as forming part of any long sequence of sonnets. The variant readings are not important, but they are numerous enough, combined with differences in spelling, punctuation, and the use of capital letters, to prove that the copyist did not depend on Thorpe’s text. In the manuscript the two quatrains and the concluding sixain are numbered «1», «2», and «3» respectively. The last six lines appear in the manuscript thus:—
3.
Marke howe one stringe, sweet husband to another
Strikes each on each, by mutuall orderinge
Resemblinge *Childe, and Syer*, and happy Mother
w.ch all in one, *this single note* dothe singe
whose speechles songe beeinge many seeming one
*Sings this to thee, Thou single, shalt proue none.*
W: Shakspeare
In Thorpe’s edition these lines run thus:—
Marke how one string sweet husband to an other,
Strikes each in each by mutuall ordering;
Resembling *sier, and child*, and happy mother,
Who all in one, *one pleasing note* do sing:
Whose speechlesse song being many, seeming one,
*Sings this to thee thou single wilt proue none.*
The superior punctuation of the last line of the manuscript is noticeable.
In like manner, *Sonnets LXXI and XXXII*, which, closely connected in subject, meditate on the likelihood that the poet will die before his friend, appear as independent poems in a manuscript commonplace book of poetry apparently kept by an Oxford student about 1633.¹
² This MS., formerly belonging to Mr. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, is now in the library of Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, U.S.A. Mr. Winship,
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