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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

49:2. P. 60, lines 5-6. This refrain is omitted after the speeches in
    1651, but figures in other editions, earlier and later.

      _The Exequies_ (p. 61).

50:1. P. 61, lines 7-8. Text as given in 1651, 1657. 1647 has:

     'Whose cold embraces do a victim hide
      That, paid to Beauty, on Love's altar died.'

      _The Silkworm_ (p. 62).

51:1. P. 62, line 1. 'This': 1651, 1657.

51:2. P. " line 6. All editions read:

      'To make thy ornament her spoil.'

    Facts, and the context, force one to reverse the possessive
    pronouns.

51:3. P. 62, line 7. 1651: 'pain.'

51:4. P. " line 10. 1647:

     'That her rich work and labours, thou
      Wilt,' etc.

      _Ambition_ (p. 62).

52:1. P. 63, line 10. Misspelt 'assent' in 1657.

52:2. P. " line 16. 'Honour,' in all texts, obviously wrong.

      _Song: 'When, dearest Beauty'_ (p. 63).

53:1. P. 63, line 5. 'Left': 1651; 'least': 1657.

      _Song: 'I will not trust'_ (p. 64).

54:1. P. 64, line 15. 'Captive': 1657; the older form in 1647, 1651.

      _Song: 'I prithee'_ (p. 65).

55:1. P. 66, line 7. 'That,' 1647, 1651.

      _The Loss_ (p. 66).

56:1. P. 67, line 20. This word reads 'thy' in all editions of Stanley.
    The right reading is almost certainly 'their.'

      57:1. _The Self-Cruel_ (p. 67).

Entitled 'Song': 1647.

57:2. P. 68, line 17. 'That' in all texts: but presumably a misprint.

      58:1. _An Answer to a Song: 'Wert thou much [?] Fairer'_ (p. 68).

Stanley gives the title inaccurately.

Mr. W. M.'s Wither-like song (the author of which the Editor has not
    identified), appears only in the edition of 1651:--

      Wert thou yet fairer than thou art,
      (Which lies not in the power of art,)
      Or hadst thou in thine eyes more darts
      Than ever Cupid shot at hearts;
      Yet if they were not thrown at me,                               5
      I would not cast a thought on thee.

      I'd rather marry a disease,
      Than court the thing I cannot please:
      She that will cherish my desires
      Must meet my flames with equal fires.                           10
      What pleasure is there in a kiss,
      To him that doubts the heart's not his?

      I love thee not because thou'rt fair,
      Softer than down, smoother than air;
      Nor for the Cupids that do lie                                  15
      In either corner of thine eye.
      Wouldst thou then know what it might be?
      'Tis I love you, 'cause you love me.

58:2. P. 68, line 8. 'So': 1647, 1651.

      59:1. _The Relapse_ (p. 69).

Entitled simply 'Song' in 1647.

59:2. P. 69, line 5. 'Blind and impious': 1647.

59:3. P. 69, line 7. 'Fall': 1657; in the earlier versions 'name,'
    caught up by the compositor, in error, from the succeeding line. But
    the 1647 copy of Stanley in the Bodleian Library, which belonged to
    William Fairfax, has 'name' erased, and 'fall' written, in a
    seventeenth-century hand, above it.

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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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