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- PERICLES 27
Spelling differences.
In the two following places neither text is right. But the ‘Enser’ (first) text is nearer the right reading than the ‘Enser’ (second). In iii. 2. 93-4 the sense requires ‘warmth breathes’. The ‘Enser’ copy gives ‘warmth breath’, the ‘Enser’ copy ‘warme breath’. In v. 1. 47 the sense requires ‘deafened’. The ‘Enser’ copy gives ‘defend’, the ‘Enser’ copy ‘defended’.
At least three necessary words are omitted in the ‘Enser’ copy, viz. ii. 1. 134 ‘to’; 5. 71 ‘say’; iii. 1. 9 ‘as’.
Only one omission, and that a stage direction, is noticeable in the ‘Enser’ copy, viz. ii. 5. 13 ‘Exit’.
The cases where the ‘Enser’ (second) goes right and the ‘Enser’ (first) wrong are fewer. But they are not unimportant. The five most noticeable corrections are:—
| iii. 1. 66. Paper | for Taper |
| --- | --- |
| iv. Chor. 17. ripe | for right |
| iv. 6. 12. Caualeres (i. e. Cavaliers) | for Caualereea |
| 164. women-kinde | for women-kinde |
| v. Chor. 20. fervor | for former |
Irregularities in spelling where the two editions differ merely reflect the caprices of the two compositors. A superfluous ‘-e’ following words, e. g. ‘booke’, ‘keepe’, ‘vnlesse’, ‘returne’, frequently occurs in both copies. But the words that have it in one copy often lack it in the other. Where the one copy reads ‘fruite’ and ‘fellowe’, the other copy reads ‘fruit’ and ‘fellow’. But the latter copy has ‘mountaine’ and ‘devoure’ though the former has ‘mountain’ and ‘devour’. Fifty words, which have the superfluous ‘-e’ in the ‘Enser’ (first) edition, are without it in the ‘Enser’ (second) edition. Forty words, which have the same ending in the
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