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Copy-Text and Notes

I have taken for my copy-text MS. Add. 10308 which is generally supported by MS. Add. 28622 and Laing. Sir John has made some emendations which cannot be dismissed, since they are supported either by MS. Add. 28622 or by Laing.

The variant readings for this poem will generally be cited by a number which indicates how many manuscripts give that reading; since there are so many texts and since they are of such shifting loyalty, it would be confusing rather than helpful to cite them individually in the notes. Only texts 1-15 are included in the notes. Texts 22-27, being fragmentary and otherwise corrupt, are of no textual validity. Texts 16-19, the miscellany texts, are late, partially corrupt, and in any case representative of texts included in the manuscript versions cited. No. 27 I have seen but not collated. Nos. 28-31 I have not seen, although they have been collated by Miss Latham in her text of the poem.