Read full poem →now transprosed into politics ; they say he had much ado
to live upon poetry." The two MSS. of " A Seasonable
Argument " in the British Museum (Lansdowne MSS.
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A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
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Read full poem →§ 14. DESCRIPTION OF THE MSS.
Read full poem →foundation, but correcting it by Cp. throughout, without specifying more
than the rejected reading of Cl. in passages where these MSS. differ. In
this way the numerous absurdities of Cl. (as noted above) have been easily
Read full poem →Bk. i. pr. 6. 65. Cx. norissing. (Perhaps better than _norisshinges_, as in
the MSS.; for the Lat. text has the sing. _fomitem_.) Cf. Bk. iii. met. 11.
27.
Read full poem →Bk. iv. pr. 6. 188, 189. Cx. and some dispyse that they mowe not here
(_misprint for_ bere). MSS. C. and A. omit this clause.
Read full poem →authority. (In fact, _postremo_ is the reading given by Peiper, from _one_
MS. only; most MSS. have _postremae_, the reading given by Obbarius, who
does not recognise the reading _postremo_).
Read full poem →§ 11. Part II. discussed. § 12. Poems added by Speght.
§ 13. Poems added by Morris. § 14. Description of the MSS.
List of the MSS. § 15. Remarks on the MSS. at Oxford.
Read full poem →Conversely, I here give a list of the Poems in the present volume, shewing
from which MSS. each one is derived. I mention first the MSS. of most
importance. I also note the number of lines in each piece.