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# SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE
CXXVIII. 11. Ore whome *their* fingers walke with gentle gate: (for *thy*).
14. Giue them *their* fingers, me thy lips to kisse: (for *thy*).
‘To’ for ‘too’.
The like want of care, although of smaller moment, is apparent in the frequent substitution of the preposition *to* for the adverbial *too*:—
XXXVIII. 3. Thine owne sweet argument, *to* excellent.
LXI. 14. From me farre of, with others all *to* neere.
LXXIV. 12. *To* base of thee to be remembred.
LXXXIII. 7. How farre a moderne quill doth come *to* short.
LXXXVI. 2. Bound for the prize of (all *to* precious) you.
The reverse mistake appears in—
CXXXV. 2. And Will *too* boote: (for *to* boot).
At least thrice *were* is confused with *wear*:—
‘Were’ and ‘wear’.
LXXVII. 1. Thy glasse will shew thee how thy beauties *were*: (for *wear*).
XCVIII. 11. They *weare* but sweet, but figures of delight: (for *were*).
CXL. 5. If I might teach thee witte better it *weare*: (for *were*).
The following proofs of carelessness admit of no classification, but give additional proof of the want of discrimination on the part of those who have credited the volume with exceptional typographical accuracy.¹
¹ There are some trifling discrepancies between various copies of the edition which illustrate the common practice among Elizabethan printers of binding up an uncorrected sheet, after the sheet has been corrected, and after other copies have been made up with the corrected version. The ‘Ellesmere’ copy has, in LXXVIII. 6, the unique misreading—*flee* (for *flie*)—which is corrected in other copies. As in the British Museum copy, it has, too, at F3 (recto) the wrong catchword *Tbe* for *Speake*, which is set right in the Bodleian copy.
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