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LUCRECE
figures in all extant impressions save in the two in the Bod-
leian Library, where the line reads —
linen so this pattern of the worne out age.
It is difficult to determine which is the better reading, but
it is clear that ' the patterne of this . . . age ' was deemed the
better by the corrector of the press.
Misprinrs
The
following
two misprints
in
the
Bodleian
copy,
which
peculiar
to
jg
]^qj.^
reproduced,
are also
met
with
in
the
second
copy
inthree extant
copies. the same library and in the Sion College copy as Avell, but
both are corrected in the De^'onshire and British Museum
copies: — line 1182, 'which /or (instead of ^y) him tainted 'j
line 1337, ' blast/ ' for < blast.'
Misprints in The following mispriuts seem common to all impressions :—
Title-page
(last
line)
'Churh-yard'
for
<
Church-yard'
j 'sleeep'
(1.
1(^3)
for* sleep
'j
<
to
begnild
'
(1
.
1^44)
for 'so
beguild';
«on'
(1. i(J8o) for
<in';
<it in'
(1. 171
3) for <in
it.'
The
inverted
commas
at
the beginning
of
11.
8^7-8
are
ex-
ceptional, and
may
also
be reckoned
among
typographical
inaccuracies.
Capital The volume oifers examples of the ordinary irregularities
'^.".^.'^ , which are usually met with in specimens of Elizabethan typo-within the , -^ . . ^ . .•'■■■
line. graphy. Capital letters within the line are used little less
arbitrarily than in Fejiiis and Ado7ns. Such ordinary words as
<Tent' (If), 'Bee' (8 3(J, 840, 1 7*^9), 'Citty' (if h) and 'Foe'
(I cTo 8 ), are always dignified with an initial capital. But the per-
sonified 'time ' and ' opportunity ' go without the distinction.
No law is observable in such a distribution of capitals. In the
first part of the poem, 'Beauty' is invariably spelt with a capital,
but in the concluding stanzas it appears with a small letter ;
the word is used eighteen times in all, and the capital appears
twelve times. ' Sun ' occurs eight times in all, five times
all extant
copies
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