(b) Note of a few readings in the same manuscript. AT A SOLEMN MUSICK. line 6. content. Manuscript reads concent as does the Second Edition; so that content is probably a misprint. ARCADES. line 22. hunderd. Milton's own spelling here is hundred. But in the Errata to Paradise Lost (i. 760) he corrects hundred to hunderd. LYCIDAS. line 64. uncessant. Manuscript reads incessant, so that uncessant is probably a misprint; though that spelling is retained in the Second Edition. line 82. perfet. So in A Maske, line 203. In both these places the manuscript has perfect, as elsewhere where the word occurs. In the Solemn Music, line 23, where the First Edition reads perfect, the second reads perfet. A MASK. lines 168, 169. Manuscript reads line 474. requires. line 493. line 553. line 743. but heere she comes I fairly step aside & hearken, if I may, her buisnesse heere. sensualty. Manuscript also reads sensualtie, as the metre father. Manuscript reads father's. drowsie frighted. Manuscript reads drowsie flighted. In the manuscript, which reads— If you let slip time like an neglected rose a circle has been drawn round the an, but probably not by Milton. (c) Paradise Lost, vii. 451. Bentley's emendation of soul for fowl should have been noted at the foot of the page. See Genesis i. 30 A. V. margin. |