KATHERINE PHILIPS: A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE POETRY by ...

Textual Introduction
Poem #59: To my Lucasia in defence of declared friendship.
Artifacts: 151 (pp. 47-49), 775 (pp. [110], [108], [106], [104],
[102]rev), 776 (pp. 327-[330]), 64 (pp. 165-71), 67 (pp.
82-85), 69 (pp. 82-85), 78 (pp. 82-85)
The earliest version of poem #59, MS 775, is in the hand of
Katherine Philips and has been selected as the copytext. MS 151 is
related to MS 775 (11. 21, 68, 70), but the large number of minor
verbal variants in MSS 151 and 775 shows that MS 151 does not directly
descend from MS 775: 11. 3, 29, 46, 52, 67. MS 776 is also connect­
ed to MS 775 (11. 21, 62, 67), but readings in lines 11, 19, 22, 23,
28, and 51 show that MS 776 does not directly descend from either MS
775 or MS 151. Verbal variants in lines 47, 59, and 73 indicate that
text 64 comes from a source other than MSS 775, 151, 776 or texts 67,
69, and 78. Readings in lines 12, 62, 68, and 70 reveal that texts
67, 69, and 78 vary from MSS 775, 151, and 776. Thus, the relation­
ships among the artifacts indicate that four revised versions of MS
775 circulated: one witnessed by MS 151, one by MS 776, one by text
64, and one by texts 67, 69, and 78.
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