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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
'
^^
for
<
Within'
(23
f);
<aud'
for
<and'
(301);
«
bnt
'
for
<but>
{l9l)'-,
*Ho'
for
<He'(y45-); <nor'for
<noc'(<Jiy);
<
the
th'
impartiall
'
for
«
th'
impartiall
'
(748)
;
<-
had
'
for
<
was
'
(i
0^4)
j
'crop's' for
'crops
'
(i
1
75").
None
of these are
likely
to
mislead.
But misprints
are
not
the
main
defects
of the
volume.
A
more
Discrepan-
serious
flaw
lies
in
the
careless
discrepancies
which
characterize
""..^^
the
spelling
of
common
words.
Very
little
time
must have
been
'^^
"^
spent on
the
revision of
proof-sheets
of
a
book
in
which some
of
the
commonest
words
were
spelt
indifferently two
or
three
ways
in
contiguous stanzas.
Elizabethan
spelling
was
impatient
of
strict
law,
but
well-printed books
observed
within
their
limits
a
definite
system
in
the
treatment
of
ordinary
words.
In
the
first
issue
of
Fenus and
Jdonis chaos
reigns
supreme.
In
the
same
stanzas
we have both
<kis'
(207)
and
'kisse' (209),
and
both
'sun'
(193)
and 'sunne'
(198),
while
elsewhere
(75-0)
we
meet with
a
third variant
in
'
sonne.'
Similar
irregularities are
'
blood
'
(fffjand'bloud'
(1122);
'bore' (1003)
and 'boare'
(1112);
<
desier '(3d)
and
'desire
'
(747); 'eyes '(120)
and
'
eies
'
(i
of o);
'
flood
'(824)
and
'
floud
'
(in
'
floud-gates
',
f
3 )
j 'flower'
(8
)
and
'
floure
'
(i
Of
f)5
'inchaunt'
(145-)
and 'inchanting'
(247)
j
'lion
'
(1093)
and
'
lyon
'
(884);
' litle
'(132) and
'little'
(i
1
7^)'^
'pray
'
(i.e.
'prey', jS)
and
'praie'
(1097);
'rain'
(3(^0)
and
'raine'
(71)^
'sayes'
(8fi)
and
'saies'
(1173);
'skie' (48
f)
and 'skye'
(8
ir);
'
spite
'
(i73)and
'spight'
(i
1
3
3);
'
in
spite
of
'
(i
73)
and
'despight
of
(7fi)^
'spirit' (one syllable, 882)
and
'sprite'
(i8r);
'sproong'
(ii(J8)
and 'sprong'
(1171).
The
occasional
use of contractions and
of the
symbol
signs
of
con-
'&'
for. ^
and
' is
probably
an
endeavour
on
a
clumsy
printer's
part
to
prevent
the
over-running
of
the line in
which they
are
present. But
it is
just possible that
they reproduce
a
charac-
teristic of
the author's
manuscripts.
In
Shakespeare's extant
signatures, some
of the letters are
represented by
the
abbrevia-
tracrions.
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