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(c) 1990, Michael David Felker
ACKNOWLEDGMENT S I would like especially to thank the librarians and staff of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the British Library for their assistance and expertise in helping me trace the ownership of the two volumes of Isabella Whitney's poetry, and for their permission to make the poems of Isabella Whitney available to a larger audience. I would also like to thank the members of my committee. Dr. Kenneth Davis, Dr. Constance Kuriyama, Dr. Walter McDonald, Dr. Ernest Sullivan, and especially Dr. Donald Rude who contributed his knowledge and advice, and who provided constant encouragement throughout the lengthy process of researching and writing this dissertation. To my wife, who helped me collate and proof the texts until she knew them as well as I, I owe my greatest thanks. 11
Page 1: THE POEMS OF ISABELLA WHITNEY: A CR
Page 5 and 6: NOTES ON THE POEMS To her Brother.
Page 7 and 8: PREFACE Although she is almost unkn
Page 9 and 10: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE We can say very l
Page 11 and 12: George Mainwaring to whom Geoffrey
Page 13 and 14: Whitney's Education She received so
Page 15 and 16: London for a while, they might have
Page 17 and 18: But sith deceipt haps to my pay. Go
Page 19 and 20: agree with her audience of country
Page 21 and 22: ut had, for reasons that are never
Page 23 and 24: thematic pattern which unites the w
Page 25 and 26: pleasant (Stanzas 62, 65, 73). The
Page 27 and 28: Whitney's Life After 1573 Despite W
Page 29 and 30: And bid, fie on thy cursed name. An
Page 31 and 32: Yet hurtfull eyes, doo bid mee cast
Page 33 and 34: Though death hath shapte, his most
Page 35 and 36: Where furies sat in Sable mantles c
Page 37 and 38: Whitney, Sir Hugh Plat," 10-11). Ge
Page 39 and 40: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Both The Copy
Page 41 and 42: inquiry, R. J. Roberts, Keeper of t
Page 43 and 44: gratification of the middle and low
Page 45 and 46: vertical, 23 mm apart, three visibl
Page 47 and 48: een determined. Because Corser's li
Page 49 and 50: "A soveraigne receipt" in her antho
Page 51 and 52: classical imagery not found in Whit
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TABLE 1 TYPES USED IN THE COPY OF A
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TABLE 1: continued. LOCATION TYPEFA
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TABLE 2: continued LOCATION TYPEFAC
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INTRODUCTION Literary Tradition and
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however, added a third name and a f
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assertion that only a "happy few" w
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At a time when women were not expec
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same poets had begun their careers
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Bold, 68). While the lyrical broads
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Pretty to the Scoff of His Lady" wh
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narrator has learned about men's "f
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use for fear of being associated wi
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love equally with men" ("Love Poetr
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another Jason; having learned from
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for to resound thy shame. Vlisses w
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himself forsworn, and it is this, i
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The fish auoides the hoke, though h
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Travitsky held that it was "the mos
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ankrupt. ... In the "Wyll and Testa
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his early poetry, including "school
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880, 422, and 420, respectively. Al
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difference between true friends and
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35-36) repeats the warnings of maxi
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Anne Borron is written to thank her
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to her two sisters in London, she w
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Prosody Critics of Whitney's poetry
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tetrameter and iambic trimeter and
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alliterative line, because she cont
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As oft as I consider thine estate.
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loved. Thus the speaker likens hers
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Children are lykened to the spring
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Turberville and Gascoigne, in the f
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I have followed the printer's use o
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THE PRINTER TO the Reader. What lac
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And if you cannot be content to lea
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But if his falsehed had to them, bi
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A LVCRES for her constancy, and Thi
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The admonition by the Auctor, to al
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If SCILLA had not trust to much bef
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She scrat her Face, she tare her He
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And since the Fish that reason lack
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No gifts, no golde, can them corrup
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But now what helysh hagge? (alas) h
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R W Against the wilfull Inconstanci
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I sowed both pure and perfect seede
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I payde for loue and that full dear
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Ease by Disease, hath made me to ha
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To the worshipfull and right vertuo
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for a more dayntier thing (then Flo
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To vnderstand: I layd them by, audi
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And Bankes and Borders finely framd
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[115] I for good wyll, doo geue the
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My Nosegay wyll increase no payne,
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She neuer did accompt Dame Fortune
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The IIII. Yet absence, somtimes bri
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The 12. Our eares we must not euer
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The 20. Whilst thou aart yong, reme
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The 28. None in aduersitie hath hel
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The 36. Those strokes which mates i
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The. 44. Let thine affections ruled
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The. 52. He that is voyd of any fri
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The 60. The poore, they haue no fre
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The 68. If loue haue geuen thee a b
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The. 76. Affection fond deceaues th
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The. 84. Our yeares & dayes war wor
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The. 92. He is not much deceiu'd, w
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The. 100. Whilst that thou hast fre
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The. 1008. Seke not ech man to ples
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[25] And eke that he who ought the
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And eke of him your answers haue wh
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And al your friends to se the same,
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yet be to wrath no thrall. Refer yo
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Yet is it not for that I write, for
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Let me you see, or haue some scroll
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The want of things that breede anno
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which I by triall, proue (alas) to
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Which happye sight of mortal cretur
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And geuing tendance for your ayde,
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Doth me perswade thy enemies lye. A
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[25] But all my wordes they weare a
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Remember what the p[ro]uerb saith:
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[50] And that his eies may see you
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[30] of thy great cruelnes: That ne
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Because their keeping craueth cost,
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And such as make the sweeping Cloak
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And that the poore, when I am gone,
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Rather then any Creditor, should mo
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C290] Of Gentylmen, a youthfull roo
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Thus being weake, and wery both an
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NOTES ON THE POEMS The following no
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115 herself as his fleet sailed out
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84 history of Troilus" was register
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119 of all time. Aesop lived under
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121 Scylla fell in love with Minos,
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123 not list any works by a William
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A Sweet Nosgay 125 The first three
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21 wart wery—was weary; also a po
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129 was is uncertain beyond that. H
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Of the 883 maxims in Plat's book, W
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(Dvid's "Et genus et proavos, et qu
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17 From Plat's Sentence Number 16:
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137 28 From Plat's Sentence Number
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139 Inferiours, neither fearest thy
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medicine / But only hope" (Measure
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(Riley 112), and Publilius Syrus's
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145 (1509) as "He that louyth is vo
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on Ecclesiasticus 13:1: "The man wh
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(Duff and Duff 70:427). Cato also w
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151 should see and heare more than
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order prescribed. . ." offers advic
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"A carefull complaynt by the vnfort
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"IS. W. to C. B. in bewaylynge her
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"An other Letter sent to IS. W." Af
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86 Thames—the Thames river formed
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120 Birchin Lane—in the east cent
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164 Stiliarde—the Steelyard was i
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201 205 207 London and the County o
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248 my Printer—Richard Jones had
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Whitne
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Brydges, Sir Edgarton. Restitutia.
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Goldsmith, Elizabeth C. "Introducti
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Lowndes, William Thomas. The Biblio
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177 Puttenham, George. The Arte of
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South, Helen Penneck, ed. The Prove
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APPENDIX A GEOFFREY WHITNEY' S WILL
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none of them prove a scholler then
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APPENDIX B VARIANTS IN THE COLLIER
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substantive variants setting it apa
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Of these 456 variants, eighty-nine
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In "The admonition by the Auctor,"
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eputation had led her te grant grac
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Renaissance spellings; all of the c
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His edition also contains 421 varia
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conscience," reads, in Arber's edit
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(p. 14, 1. 81), "hauty" becomes "ha
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that the pattern of variants found
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In all cases, the reading given in
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TABLE 4: VARIANT SPELLINGS IN COLLI
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Page Line TABLE 5 VARIANT SPELLINGS
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Page Line TABLE 6 VERBAL CHANGES IN
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Octavo: TITLE PAGES The Copy of a l
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Arber: The Copy of a Letter lately
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TABLE 7: continued Line 11 faithful
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 2 17 bye
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 3 9 beco
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 4 38 fai
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 6 63 shi
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 7 90 wyf
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 8 115 mi
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TABLE 7: continued Octavo Title: Th
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 10 20 Ch
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 12 4 4 w
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 13 70 Ph
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 14 92 ap
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 15 115 h
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TABLE 7: continued Octavo Title: A
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 17 19 cl
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 18 41 is
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 19 62 yo
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 20 85 ha
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 21 105 F
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 22 1 Wig
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 23 27 wa
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 24 4 9 W
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 25 69 Jo
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 2 6 94 m
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TABLE 7: continued Pg. Ln. 27 116 e
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GLOSSARIAL INDEX 267 References are
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conserve: a) preservative; b) medic
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froe: from, 21 (110) froward/frowus
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kend: known, 72 (8) L., T., 92 (tit
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penury: poverty, scarcity, 43 (11)
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s'ere: so ever, 80 (7) SERES, (Cere
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(11), 68 (12), 69 (2), 71 (37), 74
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s. yer/ere: before, 3 (3), 99 (40)
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