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themselves betake = Q
(corrected)
. Q
(uncorrected)
= himself betakes 126 wake = Q
(corrected)
. Q
(uncorrected)
= wakes 425 Slaked
spelled
Slakt
in
Q. Ed = Slacked 550 blows = Ed. Q = blow 684 prone = Q. Ed = proud/foul 755 in = Q. Ed = e’en 782 musty = Q. Ed = misty 812 quote
spelled
cote
in
Q 950 cherish = Q. Ed = perish/blemish 1037 betumbled
spelled
betombled
in
Q 1310 tenor
spelled
tenure
in
Q 1316 stained her stained = Q. Ed = stained her strain’d/stained her stain’s 1452 chaps
spelled
chops
in
Q 1652 robbed
spelled
rob’d
in
Q 1680 on = Q. Ed = one/in 1712 The = Q. Ed = Her 1713 in it = Ed. Q = it in 1822 wounds help = Q. Ed = wounds heal
THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
    O1 = First Octavo text of 1598/99
    O2 = Second Octavo text of 1599
    O3 = Third Octavo text of 1612
    Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
    EH =
England’s Helicon
(1600)
    Griffin = Bartholomew Griffin’s
Fidessa
(1596)
    LLL =
Love’s Labour’s Lost
(1597/1623)
    MS = manuscript copy/copies held in Folger Library
    Weelkes = Thomas Weelkes,
Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices
(1597)
    The only surviving copy of O1 is a fragment containing poems 1–5, 16–18; the remaining poems are edited from O2
    1.11 habit’s in = O1. O2 = habite is
    3.11 Exhal’st = LLL (Exhalst). O1 = Exhalt, O2 = Exhale
    4.13 her = O2. O1 = his
    7.10 whereof = O2. O3 = thereof 11 midst = O3. O2 = mids
    10.1 faded
spelled
vaded
in
O2 8 left’st = Ed. O2 = lefts
    11.1 Adonis = O2. Griffin = yong
Adonis
3 god = O2/O3. MS = great 4 she fell = O2/O3. Griffin = so fell she 5 warlike = O2/O3. Griffin = wanton
    13.2 fadeth
spelled
vadeth
in
O
(also subsequently)
    14.3 care = O2. O3 = eare 14 the watch = O2. Ed = them watch 27 a moon = Ed. O2/O3 = an houre
    16.12 thorn = EH. O1 = throne
    17.27 stand = Weelkes/EH. O1 = stands 28 back peeping = EH. O1 = blacke peeping; Weelkes = back creping 34 woe = O1. EH = moane
    19.1 Live = O2. EH = Come live
“TO THE QUEEN”
    Stanford = a reading in the original manuscript of “To the Queen” (commonplace book of Henry Stanford, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.5.75, fol. 46)
    Ed = a modern editorial reading
    TO THE QUEEN = Stanford (“to the Q. by the players 1598”);
date is old-style calendar
    16 fathers’ = Ed. Stanford = father
“LET THE BIRD OF LOUDEST LAY”
    The 1601 Quarto printing in Robert Chester’s collection,
Love’s Martyr
, contains no disputed readings.
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
    Q = First Quarto text of 1609
    MS = a reading in an early manuscript copy
    O1 = First Octavo of
The Passionate Pilgrim
(1598/99)
    Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
    2.4 tattered = MS. Q = totter’d 11 ‘This…excuse’
speechmarks
= Ed
    5.14 Lose
spelled
Leese
in
Q
    6.4 beauty’s = Ed. Q = beautits
    8.0 MS Sonnet 8 =
title
“In laudem musice et opprobrium contemptoris eiusdem”
(
“In praise of music and opprobium of those who hold it in contempt”
)
14 ‘Thou…none’
speechmarks
= Ed
    12.4 all silvered o’er = Ed. Q = or siluer’d ore.
Alternate
Ed = are silver’d o’er/o’er-silvered all/ensilvered o’er/o’er-silvered are
    13.7 Yourself = Ed. Q = You selfe
    14.8 oft = Q. Ed = aught/ought
    17.12 metre
spelled
miter
in
Q
    19.5 fleet’st = Q. Ed = fleets 14 ever live = Q. Ed = live ever
    20.7 man in = Q. Ed = maiden/native/maid in
    21.5 couplement = Q
(
coopelment
)
. Ed = Complement
    22.3 furrows = Q
(
forrwes
)
. Ed = Sorrows 4 expiate = Q. Ed = expirate
    23.6 rite s
pelled
right
in
Q 9 books = Q. Ed = looks 14 with…wit = Ed. Q = wit…wiht
    24.1 stelled
spelled
steeld
in
Q
    25.9 might = Ed. Q = worth.
Alternate
Ed = fight 11 quite = Q. Ed = forth
    26.11 tattered
spelled
tottered
in
Q 12 thy = Ed. Q = their
    27.2 travel
spelled
trauaill
in
Q 10 thy = Ed. Q = their
    28.5 either’s = Q
(
ethers
)
. Ed = other’s 12 gild’st the even = Ed. Q = guil’st th’ eauen 13–14 longer…length…stronger = Q. Ed = longer…strength…stronger/stronger…length…longer
    30.8 sight = Q. Ed =