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C inner forme

Preparation for printing: C1v: italic and brackets in ll. 1–10 and last four lines
reset, dropping the third line from the bottom; the italic is face i-i; first letter of
"Invention" lowercased, l.6 up. C2r reset except for most of ll. 5–9. C3V reset,
with italic sections in alternative face i-2. Some respacing on C4r.

Pauses for correction: none. For reasons still unclear, the copies bound with
B(o) in Phase IIIb show page-number shifts on C1v and C4r (side-by-side in the
forme), and the comma at the end of C4r l.6 shifts right.

After printing: all pages kept standing, C1v and 4r with their skeletons, C2r
and 3v without.

By this point in the production, Norton eVidently has made an arrangement
with his partner Nicholas Okes to divide the job of printing quire D. (For the
possibility that Okes was an unwitting collaborator, see §8B.) Okes composes
his own setting of those eight pages using his own type. Each man then prints
roughly equal numbers of the quire for Phase III. Some of each man's sheets are

gathered with Phase II of the preliminary quire, in which "of Grayes Inne" still
appears on the title page after Shirley's name; one of these copies, with Okes'
quire D, also contains Phase IIb of quire A. From these groupings, it appears that
each man's production was equally available for assembling the first copies from
Phase III, so their work on this quire was effectively simultaneous.