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A outer forme

Preparation for printing: all pages reimposed; A4V probably retains its headline
but gets a new rule and regains its missing catchword. A1r: heading slightly re-
spaced and the leading removed between it and the text. A2V receives the last
three lines of text from the preceding page, reset; its last two lines of type are
moved to the top of A3r. A3r: one textual correction; last three lines removed
and transferred, probably immediately, to A3v in the inner forme. A4v: last four
lines from previous page reset and added at top; l.2 up, "variety" changed to
"uariety".

Pauses for correction: none.

The text of ToP, especially in the later phases, shows struggles with the letters
u and v. These resulted from orthographic changes taking place in the printing
trade around 1630–35. Prior to this, the two graphics were variants of the same
letter, which was used to denote the sounds u and v indiscriminately. The letter
took the v-form at the beginning of words and the u-form elsewhere. Hence the
words "beauty" and "variety" used the graphics as we do today, while "every"
and "unless" were rendered as "euery" and "vnlesse". Within the space of a few
years, the English printing trade converted nearly universally to the modern us-
age, but for some compositors this must have been a period of confusion. Thus on
A4v of ToP in Phase IV we find, in the same line, the aberrant spellings "beavty"
and "uariety".