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- # Spelling differences.
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This is a section titled "Spelling differences," extracted from a text file related to Shakespeare's play *Pericles*. It discusses spelling variations between two editions of the play. The section spans lines 14025 to 14049 in the source file.
## Context
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## Contents
The section details spelling differences between two editions of *Pericles*, referred to as the "Enser" (first) and "Enser" (second) copies. It notes instances where one text is closer to the correct reading than the other, citing specific act, scene, and line numbers. The section also points out omitted words in the "Enser" copy and corrections made in the "Enser" (second) copy. It further discusses irregularities in spelling, reflecting the compositors' caprices, such as the superfluous '-e' at the end of words. The section concludes by noting the distribution of capital letters and their capricious use in both editions.
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- 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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