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espect to the latter is to capitalise the initial letter
of each line ami the whole of the first v»ord f sometimes
words, of e;;ch poem, Poems vhich «re in a corrected
state in the manuscript are noted «« "Corrected" at the
foot of each pnjf-e of the transcript (where necessary)
and where the corrections are by VTyatt as "Corrected
b> Wyatt w t but the only corrections which have been
accented into the text of the transcript are tho.se of
Wyatt and the original scribe*
The aMkreviated forms of the manuscript have been
ke^it as a ruie f but where the rule has been set aside
the letters re 'lacing the ^ar-k 0* aHbrevia tiori are
underlined, Ko distinction i>as been ade between the
nunatlon marks __«. a?*d sT* «nd the crossing of the
doul»le 1^ has been ignored but way be presuf ed at every
occurence of th»* double 1^» Finally, the wark
which occurs beneath certain words in the first few
poems is in ail probability intended to signify an
The only hand in the manuscript which raises
insoluble problems 01 transcription is that of Wyatt
hi.jself. In Uyott's hand tix& final h^, t^ aiid k are
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