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THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
is a paginary reprint of 1554 by the same printer. I have
already given a list of significant differences which will serve
to identify the two editions of this poem. To them I add the
following. The block of the Man with a Dog on Aia is replaced
by the initial T. The headlines are too wanton in their varia¬
tions to be reported on in detail, but in general we may note
that whereas in the first edition the headlines of The Monarche
invariably bear the correct spelling, those in the 1559 edition
are frequently spelt Monarce. It must be noted, however,
that there are no headlines for the minor poems. A3b omits
THE EPISTIL; Bia has »*- THE PROLONG, which is
omitted for the remainder of that section ; THE is spelt TE
on B4b, C3b, C4b, and C5a, and is spelt EHT on E4a. Rib
contains the author’s subscription, set between little orna¬
ments. Copies vary considerably in size. The largest is in
Lambeth Palace Library, 6LI X 5iV'. Being a paginary
reprint of 1554 this edition of The Monarche has the same
number of lines to the page, and is in blackletter. There is
a further weakening or degradation of language.
To it Scot appended the unsold copies of the minor poems,
first series. The combination of the second edition of The
Monarche and the first series of minor poems forms Group III.
It will be noted that Scot repeated his warning against Petit’s
editions on the title of this edition of The Monarche. This
edition of The Monarche and the minor poems first series was
used as the parent of the 1568 edition, to it being added the
second series of minor poems to form the volume known as
The Warkis.
Group III.
Copies Known :
1. Bodleian. Tanner 188. The title and the first two leaves are
worn at the edges, the title badly so. The title has been pasted on an
inserted stub, and bears an autograph, ‘ Thomas Holcroft,’ in an
eighteenth century hand. This has been scratched out by a later owner.
The Tragedie and The Testament contain a few MS. notes in a late
sixteenth or early seventeenth century hand. On one of the fly-leaves
is the initialled pencil note, ‘ The Second Edition of the Dialog, along
with the Minor Poems, printed by John Scot (in 1559) D[avid] L[aing].’
2. Lambeth Palace Library. 31. 2. 12. This is erroneously recorded
in Maitland, Index, 70, as an edition of ‘ 1552.’ Pencil notes by J. A. H.
Murray. Bound in vellum with musical score inside and out. In The
Library, March 1932, I gave facsimiles of the front end-papers, which
belong to a hitherto unknown Scottish prose work, describing the mar¬
riage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin. I there suggest that
the printer was John Scot, but Colonel Isaac identifies the type as that
used by the printer of the 1558 octavo. The back end-papers consist
of two leaves of 1554, N3 and N6 respectively. These were placed in