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VENUS
AND
ADONIS
tive symbols. Nevertheless a careful printer setting up type
from a manuscript which admitted contractions would expand
them as a matter of course. In the 1793 text oi Venus and
Adonis the letters ' m ' and ' n' are in the twenty-one following
instances represented by the cursive abbreviation of a hyphen
above the preceding vowel, viz. — 'log' (83), 'the' ( = 'then'
twice in 137), ' stregthles' (if 3), 'fro' (itfj, 443) ^^^i loyo),
< strog ' (297), < diibe ' (40^ and i i4(J), ' wouding' (43 2), < non-
paimet'(f2i), <hadling' (5-<^o), 'disseble' (<J4i)/ the' (= 'them,'
666 and 899), ' houds ' (^^78), ' drecht ' (io)'4), « cast ' ( = ' canst,'
1077), 'vpo ' (1170), 'copares ' (ii7<^).
Capital
Even
thus
the
catalogue
of
irregularities
is
unexhausted.
letters.
Capital
letters
for
common
nouns within
the
lines
are
used
sparingly
but with
the
utmost
irregularity.'
The
word
'boar',
which
occurs
seventeen
times,
is
thrice
honoured
with
a
capital B
;
'
horse
'
is
similarly
treated twice out of
eight times
;
'
lions '
once of three
times
;
and
'
queen
'
four of
six times.
Among
some
other
words which
bear
a
capital
initial
withoutreasonable
cause,
are
'
Eagle
'
(y
f),
'
Primrose
'
(i
f
i),
'
Painter
'
(2
89),'Ouen'(3
3
i),'Moone'(492),'Caterpillers'(798),'Tapsters'
(849),
and
'Tygre' (1095).
It is
easy
to
produce hundreds
of
like
words which
are
printed without
any
distinguishing-
mark.
Inflexional Other irrcgularitics in spelling affect the inflexions of
irregu
an-
)qqx.\v
the
present and
past
tenses
of
verbs. The
third
personsingular of the
present
tense
ends
indifferently with
-ethy or-^/,
or
-/.
The
latter
two terminations,
which
are
unaffected
by metrical considerations,
are
always
interchangeable.
Thus
' A different sort of typographical carelessness is the substitution of
a small letter for a capital in the first word of line 104.8 (' which * for * Which'),
and in two catchwords, respectively, after line 417 (' what ' for * What )
and after line locjp (* when * for * When '). The catchword is omitted alto-
gether after line 666 (page 30).
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