2229-30. Tyrwhitt prints these lines differently, thus:--

Folwing his wif, the quene Proserpina,

Which that he ravisshed out of Ethna.

This reading is from MS. Harl. 7335; and T. adds--'In some other MSS.

_Ethna_, by a manifest error of the copyist, has been changed into

_Proserpina_ [as in Cp. Pt. Ln.]. The passage being thus made nonsense,

other transcribers left out the [second] line, and substituted in its

stead--

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