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Transcriber's Note:
- - indicates italic script; + + indicates Old English script;
= = indicates bold script or non-italic text within italic
passages; ^ or ^{} indicates a superscript.
Doubtful words or passages were checked against a 1968 reprint
of the 1933 edition, based, by the author, on this larger 1912
edition.
The Mediæval long 's' has been replaced by the modern 's', but
usually the capital 'V' for 'U', and lower case v/u, u/v have
been retained (as in the 1968 reprint).
The spelling is, of course, early 17th century.
Unspaced punctuation, e.g. "Thy beauty,'and all parts,", is
as printed in this, and the 1968 reprint, and denotes elisions
(the running together of words to fit the metre).
In general, footnotes have been moved to the ends of their
relevant sections, and linenotes to the ends of their
relevant poems. An exception is on page 251 et seq., where the
footnotes fit naturally in sequence with the linenotes.
'_See note_' (usually) refers to poem note in the Commentary
in Volume II.
Page 7: 'seelily', from Middle English, via Old English, Old
Saxon, West Germanic.... 'sely', 'seely', from 'sælig' etc.
'seely' also occurs in other poems.
The modern word 'silly' has evolved from Old English sælig
(holy, blessed, fortunate, prosperous, happy) through meanings
of 'innocent', 'naive', 'unworldly', 'foolish' ....
Page 65: 'A Ieat Ring Sent.' Ieat = Jeat, probably jet,
a black semi-precious stone, popular in English costume
jewellery.
Page 95: Notes: Elegy X. 'S96' is given twice, with different
titles. Second entry possible error, but retained.
Page 251: The Author has placed the footnotes to the
sidenotes, in order, with the linenotes. This is probably the
least confusing place for them, so they have been retained
here.
Page 262: Printer's error: 'foveraigne' corrected to
'soveraigne'.
Page 276: Printer's error: _169-69_ corrected to _1639-69_.
"[176 them. _D_: them; _1633_, _1639-69_: them, _1635_]"
Pages 390-392: This Latin text contains a number of instances
of words ending in 'que', and a few instances (at the ends of
words) of the letter 'q' with an acute accent (stress mark)
and a subscript which looks like '3', but is 'Latin Small
Letter ET'.
This is a Mediæval scribal abbreviation for 'que' (indicating
'and') at the ends of certain words. To avoid problems with
the text, all the abbreviated words in this passage have been
written out in full.
Page 405, line note 133: _OF_ corrected to _O'F_. Probable
printer's error.