Agincourt, Battle of, Agincourt, France, 1415 -- Poetry
[Stz. 3 sidenote]
... Dowglas [_spelled “Dowglass” in main text_]
[Stz. 5 and editor’s note]
When presently a Parliament is calld
[_error for “call’d” in original_]
[Stz. 94 sidenote]
... in the 19 following Stanzaes. [_spelling unchanged_]
[Stz. 267 sidenote]
the word _Frappe Fort_ [_text unchanged_]
Page 35, l. 9 [Stz. 87]. “A proclamation was issued...
[_open quote missing_]
In the powerful poem entitled “Will” [_“en-/entitled” at line break_]
Low he fell down on his bended knee. [fell dowh]
Abbreviated nasals:
The form “ẽ” (e with overline) occurs twice, and õ (o with overline)
three times:
Stanza 19 sidenote:
Examples of such as haue aduanced thẽselues [themselues]
Stanza 65, note c:
An expressiõ of King Harolds death [expression]
Stanza 116, last line:
To scourge proud France whẽ now her Cõqueror comes
[when ... Conqueror]
Stanza 167ff. sidenote:
The Marshalling of the English Army cõtaining... [containing]
U and V
In the main poem, v is used initially, u non-initially. Exceptions
are rare:
[Stz. 92] levied
[Stz. 107] Tuttivile
[Stz. 120] divulg’d
[Stz. 127] invectiue
[Stz. 163] wherevpon
[Stz. 164] Averney
[Stz. 296] Burnivile
End of Project Gutenberg's The Battaile of Agincourt, by Michael Drayton
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