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Transcriber's Notes

p. 29, footnote [24]: added missing opening quotation mark ("Quantity")

p. 38: added missing closing parenthesis around paragraph ("Grave" Poem.... added in dots.)

p. 54: added period to subtitle (Examples of Skeltonic and other Doggerel.)

p. 57: added period to subtitle ( ... Poets before Spenser.)

p. 58: the foot markers in the last line of the Wyatt sonnet have been repositioned, such that the original

For good | is thè | life | end|ing faithfully.

reads

For good | is thè | life end|ing faith|fully.

p. 59: final foot symbol in line 3 of the example in paragraph (d) was moved from the end of the line to the expected position preceding "the dice", as in

... what chance | come on | the dice.

p. 63 added missing foot symbol breaking the word "Unhap|py" to line 11 of the example in paragraph (a)

Unhap|py she | that on | no sleep | could chance,

p. 66: the final foot symbol in line 4 of the Marlowe sonnet moved from

Their minds, | and mu|ses, on | admirèd | themes;

to the expected position

Their minds, | and mu|ses, on | admir|èd themes;

p. 67: the final foot symbol in line 8 of the example in paragraph (2) was moved from

With worms | that are | thy cham|ber-maids; O, | here

to

With worms | that are | thy cham|ber-maids; | O, here

p. 68: note that the diacritic over the "o'" combines breve and macron, whereas a macron alone may be expected in the context (Trisyllabic at ... "ĭty̆ ō̆'.")

p. 71: added the missing final foot symbol from the line

Wherewith | she tamed | the brind|ed li|oness

p. 74 example (2): note that no foot symbol is given where expected at the sentence break in

Let my | despair | prevail! O stay, | hope is | not spent.

p. 77 example (c) first line: changed "fictions" to "fictious", in

If fictious light I mix with Truth Divine

p. 86 in the example (3) from the Rape of the Lock the first part of each line is angled up the page, and second part of each line is angled down.

p. 105, example (d): changed final punctuation (unclear period) to comma

If you'd be free | o' the stove-|side, rocking-chair,

p. 118: added missing close parenthesis at end of paragraph (Intentionally irregular ... and some here.)

p. 178, footnote [84], example (b): changed closing single quotation mark to double quotation mark ( ... we must pronounce "spir't,")

p. 225: added missing close parenthesis (as by Spenser ... and for "history" by Drayton).

p. 335: changed "Emund" to "Edmund" (the invention of Edmund Spenser)