p. 98, l. 29 _of it weaves a Chain, not easily_ ... 1697 ‘if it weaves
a Chain, not easily ...’ 1735 ‘if it weaves a Chain, ‘tis not
easily ...’
p. 100, l. 2 _Monarchs_. 1735 ‘Monarch’, 1697 ‘Monarchs guest’.
p. 105, l. 11 _softest_. 1697, 1735 ‘softer’.
p. 106, l. 25 _Wit and Youth!_ 1735 ‘Wit and Truth!’
p. 106, l. 26 _Love and Truth_. 1735 ‘Love and Youth’.
POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (1684).
p. 115, l. 3 _Viscount Cramborn and Baron of Islington_. So 1684; but
’.ramborn’ should be ‘Cranborn’, and for ‘Islington’ we should read
’.ssingdon.’ Possibly Mrs. Behn sent the Dedicatory Epistle to press as
an afterthought at the last moment and did not see a proof. Though she
was frequently careless, such mistakes as ‘Cramborn’ and ‘Islington’
would seem to be chargeable to her printers.
p. 125, l. 32. _Forsake their Kinds_. Query ‘their Kids’.
p. 130, l. 33. _E’er they’re_. 1684 ‘E’er their’.
p. 139, l. 5. _The Gray-Plum’d Natives of the Shades_. So 1684, but we
should doubtless read ‘Gay-Plum’d’. cf. l. 2 of sixth stanza: ‘little
Gay-wing’d Loves.’
p. 144, l. 11 _The Sun and Spring receive but our short Light_. This,
the reading of 1684, is clearly corrupt but can be easily mended by
changing ‘receive’ to ‘revive’.
p. 147, l. 8 _the rushing of the wind-blown leaves_. On p. 171, l. 23,
we have ‘Whispering Gales Sigh through the Rushing Leaves.’ Mrs. Behn
uses ‘rushing’ in the sense of ‘rustling’.
p. 150, l. 17 _From Active Joyes with some they hast_. The words ‘with
some’ are meaningless and corrupt. Query ‘eftsoon’.
p. 154, l. 25 _Like Pan, a Majesty_. 1684 ‘Like Panna, Majesty’.
p. 177, l. 15 _Gold and Grain_. Probably a misprint for ‘Golden Grain’.
p. 181, l. 21 _Priapus_. 1684 ‘Priapas’.
p. 182, l. 11 _All that the Gods e’er made, if Fair_. Query ‘e’er made
of Fair’.
p. 183, l. 28 _Astrae_. Misprint: the old copy rightly gives ‘Astrea.’
p. 183, l. 30 _I slept. Muses Mercury_ (May, 1707), ‘I saw last night a
pretty sight’.
p. 183, l. 32 _Stars_. M.M. ‘Eyes so bright’.
p. 186, l. 5 _are_. Misprint: read, with the old copy, ‘art.’
p. 194, l. 31 _Not add_. Query ‘Not au’ (i.e. Not all).
p. 200, l. 17 _were throng_. Query ‘were throng’d’.
p. 206, l. 20 _decry_. Misprint: read, with 1684, ‘descry’.
p. 207, l. 12 _and Kill_. 1684 ‘a Kill’.
p. 218, l. 1 _we part_. 1684 ‘me part’.
p. 219, l. 14 _thee and I_. The bad grammar has not been changed, as it
may be due to Mrs. Behn’s carelessness.
p. 222, l. 2 _Hadst_. 1684 ‘Hads’.
p. 224, l. 25 _That, best instructs_. 1684 ‘instruct’. (The comma
after ‘that’ is unnecessary, but Mrs. Behn used it to emphasise the
word--here and in the following line.)
p. 225, l. 12 _ne’er to visit more_. 1684 ‘near to visit more’.
p. 227, l. 4 _whether_. i.e. (as frequently) ‘whither’.
p. 230, l. 28 _barely wishing_. Query ‘dearly wishing’.
p. 230, l. 33 _Love gives_. 1684 ‘give’.
p. 231, l. 18 _treads_. 1684 ‘tread’.
p. 232, l. 32 _Kisses_. 1684 ‘Kiss’.
p. 233, l. 13 _Mad_. 1684 ‘Made’.
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