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

Poem #57: Friendship.
Textual Introduction
Artifacts: 151 (pp. 96-97), 775 (pp. [130, 128, 126rev]), 776 (pp.
367-[368]), 64 (pp.158-61), 67 (pp. 78-79), 69 (pp. 78-
79), 78 (pp. 78-79)
The earliest version of poem #57, MS 775, is in the hand of
Katherine Philips and has been selected as the copytext. MS 151 is
related to MS 775 (11. 55, 56), but because MS 151 varies several
times in its verbals (11. 5, 22, 28, 39, 47) from MS 775 in the 56-
line poem, MS 151 appears to descend from a revised version of MS 775.
MS 776, while related to MS 775 (11. 55, 56), also varies many times
in its verbals from MS 775 (11. 7, 23, 27, 28, 39), indicating that MS
776 also descends from a revised version of MS 775. Readings in lines
5, 22, 23, and 47 show that MS 776 and MS 151 do not descend from the
same revised version of MS 775. MS 776 and text 64 are directly relat­
ed: they agree substantively in all lines. In lines 55 and 56, texts
67, 69, and 78 significantly vary from all other artifacts. Thus, it
appears that three revised versions of poem #57 in MS 775 circulated:
one witnessed by MS 151, one by MS 776 and text 64, and one by texts
67, 69, and 78.
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