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(xii) She killeth herself to exasperate them the more to punish the delinquent. (Stanza 245.)
The character of the textual changes, which are not
¹ The numbered stanza does not appear in the list of contents. I insert it with a view to showing the distribution of the marginal notes through the poem.
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numerous, suggests that there, too, an editorial pen was working albeit clumsily. Metrical considerations probably account for the following alterations:—‘so high a rate’ (line 19 of 1616 edition) for ‘such high proud rate’; ‘a date expired; and cancell ere begun’ (26) for ‘an expired date, cancell ere well begun’; ‘doth march’ (301) for ‘marcheth’; ‘beneath’ (543) for ‘under’; ‘ever dumb’ (1123) for ‘mute and dumb’; ‘throughout Rome’ (1851) for ‘thorough Rome’. In l. 1680 the substitution of ‘one woe’ for the original misprint ‘on woe’ is ingenious, and the introduction of a hyphen in l. 1018 to connect the words ‘skill’ and ‘contending’ betrays intelligence. Other variations of the earlier text are unjustifiable: ‘rue’ (455) for ‘true’; ‘feeded’ (603) for ‘seeded’; ‘bersed’ (657) for ‘hersed’; ‘mighty’ (680) for ‘nightly’; ‘foule lust’ (684) for ‘prone lust’; ‘fears’ (698) for ‘fares’; ‘of reine’ (706) for ‘or reine’; ‘disdaine’ (786) for ‘distain’; Palmers that’ (790) for ‘Palmers chat’; ‘bannes’ (859) for ‘barnes’; ‘time’ (993) for ‘crime’; omission of epithet ‘goodly’ in 1247; ‘held’ (1257) for ‘hild.’
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