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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
^j
we
find
<
neigh/'
(2(^2)
and
«
neighs/'
(307);
a
single
line
(311)
gives
us
'spurns/',
'
scorn/',
and
<feeW.
It
is
difficult
to
explain
by
philological law
why
the
e
before the
final
/
is
omitted
in
<
locks'
(228),
<
falls'
(5-94),
<
breeds'
(742),
'lends'
(790),
'begins'
(8
3f),
or 'sings'
(8
3
(J),
and
is
yet
inserted
in
'sweares^
(80),
'heares'
(702),
'leapes' (1025),
'lookes'
(1053),
or
'bowes'
(
1
1
7
1
).
A
like
uncertainty
broods
over
the
past
tense
of
verbs.
The
customary
-ed
is
represented
by
as
many
as
seven
varying
forms,
W,
^,
'^,
de^
^de^
/,
'^,
which
are
employed
at
the
composi-
tor's will
without
logical
justification. Such discrepant
forms
as
'
prison^
',
<
d
rown^
',
'
ca
W
',
'
ray
I^
',
'
prouok'^
',
'
wreak'/
',
'hem'4",
'unwitness^^', 'asham'^',
'smoothr^i^', 'perplex^^',
'imprison^',
'
open^", 'trench/', 'dre[n]ch/',
and
'stop/',
are
taken
from
a
succession
of
fourteen
stanzas
(11.
979-10(^2)
which
were
chosen
at
random.
A
few
lines
below
we
find
the
forms
'
liu'^'
(1080), 'di^^'
(1080),
'liuV^'
(108^),
and
'lurk/' (io8d) within
a
seven-line
limit.*
It
is
incredible that a practised
penman
would
have
suffered so
many
inconsistencies
to
remain
in the
proof
if
the
opportunity
of
removing them
had been
given
him. On
the
whole
it
seems
improbable,
either
that
Shakespeare's
responsi-
bility for
the
text
went
beyond
the
mere
act
of
handing
his
manuscript
to Field, or
that
Field's
corrector
of
the
press
possessed average
efficiency.
In Field's
new
edition
of 1^94
the type of
that
of
i)'93
The
text
of
was
reset
throughout
from
a
printed
copy.
The
signatures are
^ ^9^-
repeated
(B-G
in fours
and Hi) and
the
number
of leaves are
again seven-and-twenty. The signature F[i]
is
however
omitted.
The
typographical changes only
affect
the spelling
of words and
are
due
to
the
compositors'
vagaries.
No
other
'
Cf. A. Wuerzner, Die Orthographic
der ersten
Quarto-Ausgabc
von
Shakespeare's Venus and
Adonts und
Lucrece^
Vienna, 1887, 8vo,G 2
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