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# SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE
There was an obvious error in the ‘copy’ of the first two lines of *Sonnet* CXLVI. 1, 2:—
Poore soule the center of *my sinfull earth*,
*My sinfull earth* these rebbell powres that thee array.
The repetition of the three last words of line 1 at the beginning of line 2 makes the sense and metre hopeless.
*Sonnet* CXVI is wrongly headed 119.
The first word of *Sonnet* CXXII, *Thy*, appears as *TThy*. The initial ‘W’ of *Sonnet* LXXIX is from a wrong fount. The catchwords are given more correctly in some copies than in others, but nine errors are found in all. At C3 (recto) *To* appears instead of *Thou*; at C4 (verso) *Eternall* for *Eternal*; at E (recto) *Crawls* for *Crawles*; at D2 (recto), E3 (recto), F (verso), G2 (verso), H3 (verso), and I2 (recto), *Mine, That, I grant, When, My*, and *Loue* appear instead of the numerals 46, 70, 82, 106, 130, and 142, which are the headings respectively of the next pages (the numeral is given correctly in like circumstances in seven other places).
The appearance of two pairs of brackets, one above the other, enclosing blank spaces, at the end of *Sonnet* CXXVI is a curious irregularity, due probably for once to the printer’s scruples, albeit mistaken. The poem is not a regular sonnet: it consists of six riming couplets—twelve lines in all. But it is complete in itself, and it is not uncommon to find poems of the same kind and length inserted in sonnet-sequences of the day. The printer, however, imagined that it was a sonnet with the thirteenth and fourteenth lines missing, and for these he clumsily left a vacant space which he vaguely expected to fill in subsequently.¹
¹ The suggestion that the printer intended the empty brackets to denote the close of the first section of the sonnets, most of which were addressed to a man, and the opening of a second section, most of which were addressed
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