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	Original	Altered Original	Reset	Corrected Reset
Ded. 18	use-full	use full	use-full	use-full
19	For so	For so	For, so	For so,
	it:	it:	it.	it.
20	gowne	gowne	gowne,	gowne,

The Altered Original always appears with the fourth (last Original) variant of G5v (see below). The single change in it is the result of the disappearance of the hyphen from "use-full" in line 18, which must have occured during the machining of the forme, for in one copy (of nine) of this variant, the hyphen is present.

The headline from the reset G5, with the page number "81" mistakenly left in place, was used for the headline of the reset and corrected reset of G2.

Gerritsen points out (p. 53) that the largest block of italic type (the body of the Dedication) was not reset, which is almost correct. The first two lines were, in fact, reset; there were several alterations in punctuation later in the text.

G2v, p. 76

In their "Survey of the Text," for line 13 H&S fail to italicize "their servant" (IX, 53) but do get it right in the play (III, 422). For line 23 they note in the "corrected" state: "Rustici" (above "Fungoso"), which also appears in their edition of the play. I have not been able to find this variant anywhere, including in the Grenville copy at the British Library, which is cited in their notes (IX, 53). This ghostly fragment may be similar to a couple noted by Parker in his edition of Volpone (p. 358).

G3, p.77		Original	Reset
	Char. 10	falls	fals
	16	singularity	singualaritie
	27	de- \| formity	de- \| formitie
G3v, p.78	41	Hee	He
	43	neede	need
	44	marchant	merchant

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	63	Lady	Ladie
	CW	Sor-	Sor.
G4, p. 79	67	Al- \| manacks . . .	Al- \| manackes . . .
		felicity	felicitie
	70	Fungoso	Fungosa
	75	aimes	aymes
	79	Gentleman	gentleman
	84	Souldier	souldier
	94	he. . . . He	hee. . . . Hee
G4v, p. 80	112	discreet,	discreet
G5, p. 81	[H&S seem to have noticed all variants.]
G5v, p. 82	Ind. 56	friends.	friends,

There are at least five states of G5v, four in the original and one in the reset. The stage-direction, between lines 51 and 52, "Here hee makes address to the People," appears at "the left extending into the outer margin, . . . [and at] the right, extending to the inner margin" (H&S, IX, 54). In at least one copy the stage direction at the right is broken off after the first letter of the. The page also appears without the stage-direction, both in the original and in the reset. The most likely order is this: The stage-direction at the left was thought unsightly and it was moved to the inner margin; when the stage-direction broke, it was removed and several lines of the page were re-spaced, "giving the page an irregular look" (H&S, IX, 53). When the page was reset the lines were spaced evenly.

G6, p. 83

Herford and Simpson seem to have noticed all the variants between the original and the reset page. In their assessment of the reasons for the changes, however, they are wrong, misled by their belief in the authority of "large-paper" (including "Ford") copies. They contend that "one change on pages 82 and 83 of the Folio . . . corrected a printer's error in the setting of the verse. Jonson liked his lines to be marshalled in even column, and he kept strictly to the verse-arrangement when a speech did not begin the line" (III, 416). It is much more likely that the printer was rearranging lines so that the page of the reset would end at the same place as the original.

G6v, p. 84		Original	Corrected	Reset
	Ind.103	Metaphore	Metaphore	Metaphore (swash M)
	138	Worthy	Worthy	Worthie
	139	this,	this?	this?
	145	crush . . . soules	squeeze . . . soules	squeeze . . . natures

Herford and Simpson note: "This quire [G] shows a corrected state in lines 103, 139, 140, 142, and 145. The readings found in M1, Ford, and S3 [the copies that they consider to be large-paper] alone are a resetting." Broadly speaking, they are right, but they do not deal with the most significant implication of what they say. The corrected readings, as noted above, are always to be preferred to the reset — when the distinction can be made.

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H1, p. 85			Original	Reset
		151	ready	readie
		153	censors,	censors
		154	liberally	liberally.
		163	several	severall
		172	'Tis	Tis
H1v, p. 86		[219	Arte (swash A)	Arte]
		[237	Acts (swash A)	Acts]
H2, p. 87		240	fall	fal
		259	kinde	kind
		265	elegancie	elegancy
		268	bee	be
		273	Insula	Insula,
		278	seas	Seas
		282	countries	countreys
		286	auditorie	auditory
		291	staid a little \|	stayed a lit- \| tle
H2v, p. 88		298	necessity	necessitie
		305	How?	How,
		307	did or \|	did \| or
		308	but 'twill not \|	but \| 'twill not
		310	pro- \| logue	Pro- \| logue
		311	poyson'd	poison'd
		312	two-penny	two-pennie
		326	him,	him
		327	well-timberd	well timbred
		330	said. . . . cup	saide. . . . cuppe
		331	diamond	Diamond
H3, p. 89		337	mary	marie
		342	do'	do's
		344	withall	with all
		345	He	Hee
		346	Man . . . humour: Sbloud	man . . . Humour: Sblood
		347	humour hee . . . mee	Humour he . . . me
		348	Gentles	Gentiles
		[350	No	No (swash N)]
		351	be thirsty	bee thirstie
		353	play	Play
		354	Cordatus?	Cordatus.
		356	He	Hee
		363	varietie	variety
		367	he	hee
		368	Atheistical	Atheisticall
		369	hee'le ap- \| peare	hee'le \|
	I.i	1	Viri est	Viriest
			[ferre (swash e)	ferre]
		2	Stoique	Stoicke
		6	every	everie
		7	cor'sive	corr'sive

There is one alteration in the original: "GREX." (following line 353) and "Act I. Scene I. | Macilente" are in some copies off center, to the left, but in other copies are centered.

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H3v, p. 90		Original	Corrected	Reset
	14	[My (swash M)	My (swash M)	My]
		minde	minde	minde
	15	hungrie . . . foode.	hungrie . . . foode.	hungry . . . food
	21	third,	third,	third
	27	eye-balls	eye-balls	eye-bals
	34	incutitq	incutitq	incutique
I.ii	1	Nay . . . Carlo	Nay . . . Carlo	Nay, . . . Carlo
	4	(dropped)	Car. A . . .	Car. A . . .
			resolution.	resolution.
	CW	Car	Sog	Sog.
H4, p. 91	6	tay- \| lors	tay- \| lors	Tay- \| ors
	20	Sogliardo	Sogliardo	Sogliardo
	21	you \| affect to be	you \| affect to be	you affect \| to bee
	22	qualities, \|	qualities, \|	qualities, hu- \| mours
	24	signior	Signior	Signior
	27	me- \| dicine	me- \| dicine	medi- \| cine
	29	you, and	you, and	you, &
	32	Macil.	Macil.	Maci.
	39	city	city	Citie
	42	trunks	trunks	trunkes
	43	conju- \| rer . . . be	conju- \| rer . . . be	con- \| jurer . . . bee
	44	the spring \|	the spring \|	the \| spring
	45	behaviour \| in all:	behaviour \| in all;	beha- \| viour in all;
	[49	As	As	As (swash A)]
	49	are a \|	are a \|	are \| a
	52	he . . . choose	he . . . choose	hee . . . chuse
	53	gentleman	gentleman	Gentleman
H4v, p. 92	59	boot;		boot,
	60	else \| as		else as \|
	68	city		citie
	69	marchants		Merchants
	72	suppe		sup
	73	hire \| a		hire a \|
	74	be		bee
	77	kins- \| man		kinsman \|
	78	there \| (while		there (while \|
	79	enquiry . . . health, or \| so)		enquirie . . . health, or so) one \|
	80	carry . . . breakes \| it		carrie . . . breakes it up \|
	81	publikely		publikly
	82	you \| must		you must \|
	83	Mi- \| stris		Mistresses \|
	84	hot \| grace		hot grace \|
	88	this.		this:
	106	policy		policie
	111	credi- \| tor		cre- \| ditor
	115	pliant		plyant
	118	new-yeares		new-yeeres
H5, p. 93	124	tragedies		Tragedies
	125	Mary		Marie
	128	feare,		feare
	130	penny		pennie
	136	lye		lie
	137	[Mercuries] . . . me		[Mercuries (swash M)] . . . mee
	138	they had \| not		they \| had

167

	146	citie	Citie
	152	Signior	signior
	153	i'faith	if'aith
	160	wild	wilde
	166	al . . . straies	all . . . strayes
	169	pitty	pittie
H5v, p. 94	177	Sir	sir
	185	tell	tel
	193	ordinarie	ordinary
	194	beene . . . readie	been . . . ready
	198	well. . . . we	wel. . . . we
	205	that.	that:
	212	he	hee
	213	chap- \| falne	chop- \| falne
	219	he be	hee bee
	220	him,	him.
	223	and I, \|	and \| I,
	224,	citie, wee \| . . . meet	citie, \| we . . . meete
H6, p. 95	225	shun	shunne
	229	devill	divell
I.iii.	14	yeere. . . . see,	year. . . . see
	17	xxi	xxj
	19	xxvi	xxvj
	23	xxxi. . . . S'lid	xxxj. . . . Slid
	24	saies \| he	sayes he \|
	26	here's . . . rogue,	her's . . . rogue.
H6v, p. 96	35	fortie	forty
	38	bee	be
	44	daies	dayes
	61	booke,	booke.
	63	me	mee
	75	skin	skinne

In the original and corrected quire H, very often the lower case "w" is set with two "v"s, but almost always with the single "w" in the reset.

I3, p. 101	II.i	Original	Reset
		70	be	bee
		80	'Fore	Fore
		85	of an- \| other	of \| another
		86	to your \|	to \| your
		91	a ha- \| bit	a \| habit
		96	lie	lye
		97	muske-cat	musk-cat
		100	sweetnesse	sweetnes
		106	envy \| this	en- \| vy this
		107	yfaith. How \|	yfaith. \| How
		115	bounty	bountie
		CW	I	exceeding

The last line of original I3, "I have heard this knight Pvntarvolo, reported to bee a gentleman of" is shifted in the reset to the top of I3v, where "gentleman" is altered to "Gentleman."

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I3v, p. 102		Original	Corrected	Reset
	124	hobby	hobby	hobbie
	129	he	he	hee
	133	he	he	hee
	137	hee	hee	he
	139	lady	lady	Lady
	141	gentleman	gentleman	Gentleman
	145	lady	lady	Ladie
	150	as \| first,	as \| first,	as first, \|
	151	he has \| his	he has \| his	hee has his \|
	152	shee . . . out, \| and	shee . . . out, \| and	she . . . out, and \|
	153	hee . . . shee	hee . . . shee	he . . . she
	154	gentle- \| men.	gentle- \| men.	gentlemen. \|
	163	saies	saies	sayes
	166	1Saies	1saies	1saies
I4, p. 103	180	pleasing \|	pleasing \|	pleasing ob- \|
		object	object	ject
II.ii	2	enclosed	enclosed	inclosed
	7	above.	above!	above!
	8	eye	eye	eie
	11	retire	retire	retyre
	36	studied	studied	studyed
	38	play	play	Play
	39	e'en	e'en	e'ene
	40	edifice;	edifice!	edifice!
I4v, p. 104	46	melancholy:		melancholy.
	55	'Slud		Slud
	53	twise		twice
	62	beyond-sea		beyond-seas
	65	back		backe
	68	hee goes \| to church		he goes to \| Church
	71	he		hee
	72	capacity		capacitie
	74	Shee		She
	77	qua- \| lified		quali- \| fied
	89	he does? \| Looke,		hee does? Looke, \|
	90	on: \| and		on: and the dogge \|