The Example of Vertu: The Example of VirtueHawes, Stephen
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The Example of Vertu: The Example of Virtue
Hawes, Stephen
Poetry
Two groups of pages appear to have been printed out of sequence. Each
involves pages from the later part of a signature, so visible page
numbering is absent. It is not known whether the error is from the
original printing or from the facsimile reprint.
Pages 9-11 = aa.v.(recto) - aa.vi.(recto) [unnumbered]
Pages 69-71 = ff.iii.(recto) - ff.iiii.(recto) [unnumbered]
Pages beginning:
Vnto her I answerde o lady gloryous [printed as page 11]
Be to thy kynge euer true subgete
Whan she to me had made relacyon [printed as pages 9, 10]
Whan I had scomfyte this serpent venymous [printed as page 71]
Than came dame fayth that lady gloryous [printed as page 70]
And there met me dame clennes blyue [printed as page 69]
Printed folio numbers show an unusual pattern:
aa, cc, ee: 16 pages each
gg: 12 pages
bb, dd, ff, hh: 8 pages
_Numbers_
Numbers such as .x. were usually printed without spaces.
Chapter headings for .vi. and .vii. were printed near the bottom of
the page-- as main text, not catchwords-- and again at the top of the
following page. This pattern was not consistently followed for all
chapters that began at the top of a page.
_Typographical Errors_
Unless otherwise noted, errors were left unchanged.
Tabula Libri, cap. viii:
-maunded Discrecõn to lede youth to marye with clen-
Tabula Libri, cap. ix:
... dyscrecyon he dyde withstande theyr temptacõn and ...
[error for Discrecyõ, temptacyõ]
[Both words occur in full-length lines of prose. When the
typesetter saw that he needed an abbreviation to make the line
fit, he may have removed the wrong letter from the words to be
abbreviated.]
Morpleus to me than made abreyd [error for Morpheus]
Tyll eolus with blastes began to rore [text reads “colus”]
Whiche dyde enquere of prudent Iosethus
[error for Iosephus? compare “setherus” below]
He sholde there b enlumyned shortely [error for be enlumyned]
And with a for wytte kepte in store
[spacing ambiguous: may be one word “aforwytte”]
With all theyr cases dyd well avarre [v letterform in original]
For I by ryght must nedys enhaunce [text reads “enhauncce”]
Whan they ben wrought in to theyr degre [text reads “beu”]
He shall knowe thynges that be dyuyne [text reads “dyuyue”]
And by whiche he hiz kỹge dysteyneth [text reads “kỹne”]
[there is no evident reason for using an abbreviation in this line]
[for “hiz”, see below]
To man exaltynge hym to noblenesse [text reads “exaltyuge”]
The worde of god the deuyll to bl[ey]nde
[e, required by rhyme, printed above y, required by sense]
In grete wo & payne but thynke you verely [“Ingrete” without space]
Lettynge hym often of his passage [text reads “Lettyuge”]
An humble herte full of contrycon [error for contrycyon]
The merueylous dragon so gretly slynkynge
[reading may be “stynkynge”, but letterforms are closer to “sl-”]
And also setherus his fragraunt breth
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