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The influence of Q on F may also be illustrated by the occasional departure of F from its normal practice as to the use of roman or italics for proper names, where it is influenced by, and follows, Q. For example, the conservative F compositor A, following his copy—at this point, Q3—diverges into using italics for "Dolphin" in the text, at III.v.64:-

           

	Q1	Q2	Q3	F
II.iv.29	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin
111	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin
115	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin
III.v.64	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin	Dolphin
vii.88	om.	om.	om.	Dolphin

A's more unorthodox colleague, B, also, who was inclined to the opposite extreme of treating the word as a name and italicising it, departs from this practice at I.ii.221 and 235, to follow Q in using roman type, while in the remaining nine instances in the scene, he returns to his normal italics. So, at IV.vi.11, 15, 24, B follows Q3, as against Q1 and Q2, in printing "Suffolke", used alone as a proper name, in roman; and all the quartos in printing "Monmouth", seven times, and "Macedon", five times, in italics (IV.vii.); and "Lucifer" and "Belzebub" in roman.