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THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
In the Bodleian copy, Gough, Scotland, 221, the pagination
of 10, 11, 15, 138, 139, and 145 was corrected, but the mis-
numbering of 73 and onwards was allowed to remain. There
is no possibility of four leaves having been lost, as the signa¬
tures proceed regularly.
Two symbols of silent comment on the matter of the play
are used by the printer. Objectionable, or obscene, lines or
passages are introduced by square brackets placed together,
[ ], their use being first pointed out by Pinkerton, Scotish
Poems, II. 199, though this is not invariably the case. The
use of the other symbol, ^[, at the beginnings of lines, is not
clear, but it is clearly not to indicate a ‘ safe ’ passage, as one
‘objectionable’ line bears the double symbol U []• It is
interesting to note, however, that in one place the printer has
indicated the loss of two lines from a stanza by asterisks.
One is given at the end of line 1241, and the other at the
beginning of line 1242. Lindsay had been using an eight-line
stanza rhyming ababbcbc, as in 1232-1241. The next stanza
is apparently intended to be the same measure, but, omitting
the first two lines, only rhymes abbcbc, the first two lines
being indicated by the asterisks. This is an interesting point,
for it offers some proof that the quarto had been printed with
considerable care, despite the errors it contains. The omission
may, of course, have been noticed by a scribe, and the printer
inherited the scribe’s silent indication.
List of Typographical Errors in Ane Satyre
A1602 and B1602.
I. Errors in A1602 which are corrected in B1602.
A1602.
B1602.
(Bodl. 4’. Z. 3. Art. Seld.)
283 lufferis
417 pleasawee
428 Paramonr
474 hiall
476 men^eon
661 ‘ I' has dropped out
762 Bvtuix
877 spriruall
969 horsune
977 thousall
987 vacadns
991 noch
st. dir. 1171 stocks
(Bodl. Gough, Scotland, aai.)
luiffers
pleasawce
Paramour
haill
mimjeon
‘ I ’ restored
Betuix
sprituall
hursone
thou sail
vacands
nocht
stocks