Some characters of the printed book cannot be shown in this edition except in a coded form. Thus, “[^æ]” indicates æ with circumflex; “[rh]” denotes an r with hook on the upper right; “[f|]” denotes an f with vertical bar on the right; “[g|]” denotes a g with vertical bar on the right; “[d+]” denotes a d with an l-shape attached to the stem; “[l~l]” denotes ll with a tilde through them; “[t|]” denotes t with a vertical bar attached to the right; “[k|]” denotes k with a vertical bar attached to the right; “þ^e” denotes þ with superscript e; “M^l” denotes M with superscript l. Two unicode characters, "ɳ" & "ᶙ", have been substituted for letters n and u, respectively, with hooks. The poem «The Romounce of the Sowdone», beginning on page 1, has sidenotes which contain a running synopsis of the play in modern English. In the printed book, these notes were broken into segments which were positioned so as to correspond more or less accurately to the lines of the play. For this edition, the synopsis notes have been rewrapped to fit within an allotted space, but are still aligned more or less accurately with the lines of the play. The sidenotes also contain page references to the original manuscript from which the play was transcribed, for example “[leaf 3]”. These have been kept aligned with the correct line of the poem, in this case, line 80. Page vi: «Pantragruel» changed to «Pantagruel». Page xxv: “346, 4902, the name of the giant” is changed to “346, 2944, 3022, the name of the giant”. This error occurs also in the Index of Names, see below. Page xlvii: A new heading has been inserted—“MS. OF THE SOWDAN”—to match the table of contents. The original text showed only a horizontal rule here. Page 2: “amirals” changed to “admirals”, in the sidenote. Page 9, l. 289: the left quotation mark has no mate in the printed book. A right double quotation mark has been inserted at the end of l. 291. Page 10, l. 313: the left quotation mark has no mate in the printed book. A right double quotation mark has been inserted at the end of l. 323. Page 23, l. 755: the left quotation mark has no mate in the printed book. A right double quotation mark has been inserted at the end of l. 766. Page 27, l. 895: the left quotation mark has no mate in the printed book. A right double quotation mark has been inserted at the end of l. 910. Page 31, l. 1059: the left quotation mark has no mate in the printed book. A right double quotation mark has been inserted at the end of l. 1074. Page 36: In sidenote “They fight for a considerable time the blood”, added semicolon between «time» and «blood». Page 46: In the sidenotes, full stop was added after “dashed out his brains”, and “feeding he prisoners” was changed to “feeding the prisoners”. Page 47: The first footnote had no label number; a number has been inserted to correspond to the footnote anchor on line 1615.