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Appendix II: Variant readings in quires G, H, and I3.4 not noticed in Herford and Simpson (H&S format).
G2, p. 75
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 |
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.
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.
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 |
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."
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 | |
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