the author elsewhere. I have used the _Sermons_ and other prose works to illustrate and check Donne's thought and vocabulary throughout. (_b_) The relation of the reading to the probable source of the poet's thought. A Scholastic doctrine often lurks behind Donne's wit, ignorance of which has led to corruption of the text. See _The Dreame_, p. 37, ll. 7, 16; _To Sr Henry Wotton_, p. 180, ll. 17-18. (_c_) The relation of a reading to historical fact. In the letter _To Sr Henry Wotton_, p. 187, the editors, forgetting the facts, have confused Cadiz with Calais, and the Azores with St. Michael's Mount.] [Footnote 41: It is worth while to compare the kind of mistakes in which a manuscript abounds with those which occur in a printed edition. The tendency of the copyist was to write on without paying much attention to the sense, dropping words and lines, sometimes two consecutive half-lines or whole stanzas, ignoring or confounding punctuation, mistaking words, &c. He was, if a professional copyist or secretary, not very apt to attempt emendation. The kind of errors he made were easily detected when the proof was read over, or when the manuscript was revised with a view to printing. Words or half-lines could be restored, &c. But in such revision a new and dangerous source of error comes into play, the tendency of the editor to emend.] [Footnote 42: Take a few instances where the latest editor, very naturally and explicably, securing at places a reading more obvious and euphonious, has departed from _1633_ and followed _1635_ or _1669_. I shall take them somewhat at random and include a few that may seem still open to discussion. In _The Undertaking_ (p. 10, l. 18), for 'Vertue attir'd in woman see', _1633_, Mr. Chambers reads, with _1635-69_, 'Vertue in woman see.' So: Loves Vsury, p. 13, l. 5: let my body raigne _1633_ let my body range _1635-69_, _Chambers_ Aire and Angels, p. 22, l. 19: Ev'ry thy hair _1633_ Thy every hair _1650-69_, _Chambers_ The Curse, p. 41, ll. 3, 10: His only, and only his purse _1633-54_ Him, only for his purse _1669_, _Chambers_ who hath made him such _1633_ who hath made them such _1669_, _Chambers_ A Valediction, p. 50, l. 16: Those things which elemented it _1633_ The thing which elemented it _1669_, _Chambers_ The Relique, p. 62, l. 13: mis-devotion _1633-54_ mass-devotion _1669_, _Chambers_ Elegie II, p. 80, l. 6: is rough _1633_, _1669_ is tough _1635-54_, _Chambers_ Elegie VI, p. 88, ll. 24, 26: and then chide _1633_ and there chide _1635-69_, _Chambers_ her upmost brow _1633_ her utmost brow _1635-69_, _Chambers (an oversight)_. Epithalamions, p. 129, l. 60: store, _1633_ starres, _1635-69_, _Chambers_