Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
[1486] This celebrated poem was reprinted in Mrs. Cooper’s
_Muse’s Library_, 1738, from the edition of 1610. By Capell in
the _Prolusions_, 1760. from those of 1563 and 71, with the text
modernized. And also by Warton in the _History of English Poetry_,
1781, Vol. III. from the edition of 1610, who adopted most of the
emendations of Capell. Also, in Anderson’s Poets, Vol. I. 1793; from
the first edition.
[1487] In two copies of the edition of 1563 is the following variation.
In the title one has “The Induction:” the other “Mayster Sackuille’s
Induction.”
[1488] Hastning. N.
[1489] This line was also altered in the first edition while at press,
as in one copy the reading is,
“The tapets torne and euery _tree_ downe blowen:”
and is uniformly repeated in the subsequent editions, which also adopt
the running title of “_Mayster Sackuille’s Induction_,” following the
copy where the alteration to “_tree_” appears, though the head title
conforms to the other copy. It therefore remains uncertain which was
intended as the correction. “_Bloom_” is the reading preferred by
Capell and Warton, and the context appears to confirm the adoption.
In a preceding line the blustering blasts of winter are said to have
bared the trees, and the poet goes on to describe that the cold had
pierced the green, had rent and overthrown the mantles of the groves,
had torn the tapets, or tapistry, and blown down every bloom. In this
picture there is not any thing extravagant, or beyond the usual effects
of winter, whereas were every tree down blown, it would amount to a
hurricane, and not to the common decay of nature despoiling the earth
of the flowers wherewith it was clad by summer, and as described by the
poet in the following stanza. J. H.
I would prefer “_tree_” notwithstanding. _Bloom_ applies to spring, not
autumn. E. B.
[1490] Walk. Capell.
[1491] The remainder of this stanza and the next omitted by Capell. In
Warton the omission includes also the three following stanzas.
[1492] Night’s black chare. N. Nightys chair. Capell.
[1493] Leafe. Cooper.
[1494] Beams. Warton.
[1495] Bright starres. N. Nightys stars. Capell.
[1496] Omitted by Warton.
[1497] This. 1563. Capell.
[1498] Furth from her iyen. 1563. Capell, Warton.
[1499] ‘And,’ restored from ed. 1563. So Capell.
[1500] Swollen her eyes. Capell.
[1501] Aparte 1563.
[1502] Betime. 1563. Capell, Warton.
[1503] The infernall. 1563, 71. Capell.
[1504] Lethe’s. Capell, Warton.
[1505] Thing. Capell.
[1506] The next eight stanzas omitted by Warton.
[1507] Calstell. 1571, 87.
[1508] Gathered spirites. 1563.
[1509] T’auale. N.
[1510] Spirits. 1563, 71.
[1511] ‘Stike’ is altered to ‘syke’ in the list of faults escaped 1563,
a correction now first adopted.
[1512] Iyen. 1563. Eyen. Capell.
[1513] Shewe. 1563.
[1514] Fortune. 1563, 71. Capell.
[1515] Silly. 1563.
[1516] Capell suggests reading ‘be bold.’
[1517] World’s certainty. 1571, 75, 78.
[1518] Paced. 1563.
[1519] Imbraced. 1563.
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