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PERICLES
Bodleian Library, which is reproduced here in facsimile, has the ‘Enzer Gower’ opening. Although certainty on the point is impossible, the ‘Enzer Gower’ opening seems to be the mark of the first setting of the type.¹
The actual differences of reading are few. But on the whole the compositor of the ‘Enzer Gower’ edition, who may be judged to have worked direct from the corrupt manuscript, seems to have been more careful than the compositor of the ‘Enzer Gower’ edition, who worked from his colleague’s proof.
Some of the misprints of the first compositor were avoided by the second. But the obvious misprints are more numerous in the second setting than in the first. Thus, where the first prints rightly *potion* (i. 2. 68), the other misprints *portion*. Similar examples are:—
| In the ‘Enzer’
(first) edition. | In the ‘Enzer’
(second) edition. |
| --- | --- |
| i. 1. 41. thee | hee |
| i. 2. 55. plants | planets |
| 93. spares | feares |
| ii. Chor. 14. Statue | Statute |
| iii. Chor. 53. fell | selfe |
| iii. 1. 5. gently | dayly |
| 60. give | bring |
| iii. 2. 91. there | their |
| iii. 3. 19. still | dayly |
| iv. 1. 21. keep | weepe |
¹ The ‘Enzer’ copy has throughout on the left-hand page (even on the last left-hand page, which has no right-hand companion) the headline, ‘The Play of,’ and on the right-hand ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre’; while the ‘Enzer’ copy, which has on the right-hand page throughout the same heading (‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre’), repeats those words on nineteen of the thirty-four left-hand pages of the text, and only on the remaining fifteen left-hand pages does ‘The Play of’ appear.
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