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Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657.: With an Introduction, Textual Notes, a List of Editions, an Appendix of Translations, and a Portrait.Stanley, Thomas

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Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657.: With an Introduction, Textual Notes, a List of Editions, an Appendix of Translations, and a Portrait.

Name: Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657.: With an Introduction, Textual Notes, a List of Editions, an Appendix of Translations, and a Portrait.
Author: Stanley, Thomas

Stanley, Thomas

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678

The whole third stanza is reproduced from 1647; it figures neither
    in 1651 nor in 1657.

39:2. P. 47, line 30. 'Love': 1647; a manifest befogging duplication of
    the 'love' in the preceding line. 'Kill' seems to be called for, or
    perhaps 'slay,' a word less in favour with Stanley.

      40:1. _To Celia, pleading want of merit_ (p. 48).

1647: 'To One that pleaded her own Want of Merit.'

40:2. P. 48, line 12. 'My': 1647.

40:3. P. " line 19. The name in 1651, 1657; but 'Dearest' in 1647.

      41:1. _The Kiss_. (p. 49).

1647: 'The Killing Kiss.'

41:2. P. 49, line 4. 'Forms' may be a misprint of 1651, 1657. This line
    in 1647 reads:

      'They both unite and join.'

41:3. P. 49, line 6. 'And': 1651; 'by' (which carries out the context)
    in the others.

41:4. P. 49, line 12. 1647:

      'Our lips, our tongues, each other's thoughts betray.'

41:5. P. 49, line 17. 1647: 'Doris.'

      _The Snowball_ (p. 50).

42:1. P. 50, line 10. 'Whiter' in all; but 'winter' must be the word.

      43:1. _The Deposition_ (p. 50).

1647: 'A Deposition from Beauty.'

43:2. P. 51, line 1. 'Were': 1651.

43:3. P. " line 3. 'Do': 1647; somewhat clearer than 'all,' in the texts
    of 1651, 1657.

43:4. P. 51, line 9. 'Glories': 1651.

43:5. P. " line 16. 'Which': 1647.

      _Love's Heretic_ (p. 52).

44:1. P. 53, line 34. 'That': 1647.

44:2. P. " line 38. 'Pleasures': 1651, 1657.

      _La Belle Confidante_ (p. 54).

45:1. P. 55, line 16. 'Can nor decay nor die': 1651.

45:2. P. 55, line 17. 'And': 1647.

45:3. P. " lines 18, 20. 1647:

     'Even in divorce delighted,
       .     .     .     .     .
      Still in the grave united.'

      _The Divorce_ (p. 57).

46:1. P. 57, line 4. 1657: 'cannot.'

46:2. P. " line 12. 1647:

      'That taught me such idolatry.'

    The line as printed in this book follows 1657.

46:3. P. 57, line 14. 'Cold': 1647.

46:4. P. " lines 15-16. 1647:

     'I by thy hate might be releas'd,
      Who now am prisoner to thy love.'

46:5. P. 58. lines 21-22. 1647:

     'Thus whilst so many suppliants do
      Implore thy pity they may prove.'

      _The Bracelet_ (p. 58).

47:1. P. 58, line 12. 1651 and 1657 have the line revised to its
    detriment:

      'A heart that many storms withstood, have sold.'

47:2. P. 58, line 15. 1647: 'souls that do our life inspire.' 'Human' in
    1651, but 'humane,' in the commoner spelling of the time, in 1657.

47:3. P. 59, line 22. Thus in 1651, 1657. 1647 has:

      'Guards and defends my heart.'

      _The Farewell_ (p. 59).

48:1. P. 59, lines 13-14. The text as given is 1657 only. 1647 has:

     'And may, in spite of Fate, thus blest,
      Be, by this death, of heaven possess'd.'

    And 1651:

     'And be, in spite of Fate, thus blest,
      By this sad death, of heaven possess'd.'

      49:1. _The Exchange: Dialogue_ (p. 60).

'Exchange of Souls': 1647.

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Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657.: With an Introduction, Textual Notes, a List of Editions, an Appendix of Translations, and a Portrait.

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