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# SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE
meaning. The compiler had arranged the poems roughly in order of subject. The printer followed the manuscript with ignorant fidelity. Signs of inefficient correction of the press abound, and suggest haste in composition and press-work. The book is a comparatively short one, consisting of forty leaves and 2,156 lines of verse. Yet there are probably on an average five defects per page or one in every ten lines.
Of the following thirty-eight misprints, at least thirty misprints, play havoc with the sense:—
XII. 4. And sable curls *or* siluer’d ore with white: (for *all*).
XXIII. 14. To heare *wit* eies belongs to loues fine *wibt*: (for *with* and *wit*).
XXVI. 11. And puts apparrell on my *tottered* louing: (for *tattered*).
XXVIII. 14. And night doth nightly make greefees *length* seeme stronger: (for *strength*).
XXXIX. 12. Which time and thoughts so sweetly *dost* deceiue: (for *doth*).
XL. 7. But yet be blam’d, if thou *this* selfe deceauest: (for *thy*).
XLIV. 13. Receiving naughts by elements so sloe.
XLVII. 11. For thou *nor* farther then my thoughts canst moue: (for *not* or *no*).
LI. 10. Therefore desire (of perfects love being made).
LIV. 14. When that shall vade, *by* verse distils your truth: (for *my*).
LVI. 13. *As* cal it Winter, which being ful of care: (for *or*).
LXIII. 2. With times iniurious hand *chrusht* and ore-worne: (for *crush’d*).
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