A New Manuscript Version of Dryden's Epilogue to Sir Fopling FlutterAuthor(s): Willard ThorpSource: The Review of English Studies, Vol. 9, No. 34 (Apr., 1933), pp. 198-199Published by: Oxford University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/507873 .

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R. E. S., VOL. 9, 1933 (N9 34, APRIL) R. E. S., VOL. 9, 1933 (N9 34, APRIL)

HIa7rper, for Iohn MAarriot . ." Both are dated I631, as is the

separate title-page of the Discourses. As nearly as I can determine the title-page of Part II was not completely reset. In this edition the dedication of Part II and the dedication of the Discourses are omitted.

Shortly after the author's death in June I614, Richard Hawkins got possession of two of his paradoxes or encomiums, on Sadness and on Julian the Apostate. They were entered to him on December 23, I614, and in I616 he published them as Essayes Or rather Encomions. In the same year Thomas Thorp published four other paradoxes as Essayes of Certaine Paradoxes, and on November 15, I6I6, he assigned them to Hawkins, who, in I6I7, published a new edition of them, which he issued with the 1616 edition of Essayes Or rather Encomions. He retained the title-page of the latter in the new issue, but the title-page of the second edition of the Paradoxes (Essayes Of Certaine Paradoxes. The second Impression, inlarged) was intended as a general title-page, and it has on the verso a table for both parts of the volume.1'

R. E. BENNETT.

A NEW MANUSCRIPT VERSION OF DRYDEN'S EPILOGUE TO SIR FOPLING FLUTTER

IN Volume I of the Review of English Studies (pp. 325-26) Mr. Thorn-

Drury published variant readings for Dryden's epilogue to Sir Fopling Flutter which he had noted in a version of the epilogue in the Haward MS. Two of these variations Mr. Brett-Smith adopted in his edition of the Dramatic Works of Sir George Etherege. I do not think it has been observed that the Sloane MS. I458 at the British Museum contains another version of Dryden's epilogue which in some particulars seems to be nearer still to what its author originally intended.

1 Four of Cornwallis's paradoxes (written earlier) escaped the printer, and are preserved in Sir Stephen Powle's commonplace book, MS. Tanner I69 (folios 132-37). When editing these [see Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology, xiii (1931), 219-40], two facts escaped me. It is probable that, like the preceding entry in Powle's book, " The 1d of Leycester his common wealth," they were "coppied of yonge S' william Cornwally[s] written booke." The copy occurs among entries made between I608 and I613, and in close proximity to entries made about I6II. Mrs. Evelyn Simpson has called to my attention a manuscript (Rawlinson D7x8, No. 2) of The Praise of Richard the Third, which corresponds with the Hardwick Hall manuscript in having a dedication to John Donne and a short preface, which are not in other manuscripts or the printed editions.

HIa7rper, for Iohn MAarriot . ." Both are dated I631, as is the

separate title-page of the Discourses. As nearly as I can determine the title-page of Part II was not completely reset. In this edition the dedication of Part II and the dedication of the Discourses are omitted.

Shortly after the author's death in June I614, Richard Hawkins got possession of two of his paradoxes or encomiums, on Sadness and on Julian the Apostate. They were entered to him on December 23, I614, and in I616 he published them as Essayes Or rather Encomions. In the same year Thomas Thorp published four other paradoxes as Essayes of Certaine Paradoxes, and on November 15, I6I6, he assigned them to Hawkins, who, in I6I7, published a new edition of them, which he issued with the 1616 edition of Essayes Or rather Encomions. He retained the title-page of the latter in the new issue, but the title-page of the second edition of the Paradoxes (Essayes Of Certaine Paradoxes. The second Impression, inlarged) was intended as a general title-page, and it has on the verso a table for both parts of the volume.1'

R. E. BENNETT.

A NEW MANUSCRIPT VERSION OF DRYDEN'S EPILOGUE TO SIR FOPLING FLUTTER

IN Volume I of the Review of English Studies (pp. 325-26) Mr. Thorn-

Drury published variant readings for Dryden's epilogue to Sir Fopling Flutter which he had noted in a version of the epilogue in the Haward MS. Two of these variations Mr. Brett-Smith adopted in his edition of the Dramatic Works of Sir George Etherege. I do not think it has been observed that the Sloane MS. I458 at the British Museum contains another version of Dryden's epilogue which in some particulars seems to be nearer still to what its author originally intended.

1 Four of Cornwallis's paradoxes (written earlier) escaped the printer, and are preserved in Sir Stephen Powle's commonplace book, MS. Tanner I69 (folios 132-37). When editing these [see Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology, xiii (1931), 219-40], two facts escaped me. It is probable that, like the preceding entry in Powle's book, " The 1d of Leycester his common wealth," they were "coppied of yonge S' william Cornwally[s] written booke." The copy occurs among entries made between I608 and I613, and in close proximity to entries made about I6II. Mrs. Evelyn Simpson has called to my attention a manuscript (Rawlinson D7x8, No. 2) of The Praise of Richard the Third, which corresponds with the Hardwick Hall manuscript in having a dedication to John Donne and a short preface, which are not in other manuscripts or the printed editions.

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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS

The manuscript consists of poetical pieces and extracts collected by Richard Enock who matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in I673. The book was compiled while he was an undergraduate, for it bears the date 1677, with his signature, on the first page.

The following are the chief variations from the readings in the quartos and in the Haward MS.

1. 6. That, Gallants, hee may more resemble you (for they in the quarto and it in the Haward MS.).

1. 10. I vow methinks hee's pretty company (this corresponds with the quarto reading rejected by Mr. Brett- Smith, as a printer's error, in favour of the version in the Haward MS., I [i.e. Ay] now methinks).

1. i6 (14 in the quarto) makes nonsense as it stands, To fill and finish God almighty, Fool

(but the fill for file gives some authority to the Scott-Saintsbury reading of the line).

The couplet referring to Dryden himself, omitted in the published play, appears as in the Haward MS., though in a different position. The last seven couplets differ in sequence from the arrangement in the other versions. Their order is, I think, a more logical one. The two climatic lines

Yet none S' Fopling him, or him can call Hee's knight o' th' Sheir, and represents you all

conclude the account of the beau's representative character. The four lines describing his " diving Bow " follow the description of the " new French wallow," thus placing the entire picture of his demeanour before the account of his dress and his songs--" the Ladies dear delight."

WILLARD TLIORP.

LYRICAL BALLADS, A VARIANT?

ANY peculiarity in the 1798 issue of Lyrical Ballads is of importance to students and to collectors of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

In " A Description of the Wordsworth and Coleridge Manuscripts in the Possession of Mr. T. Norton Longman," London, 1897, p. 44, W. Hale White quoted from a letter written by Coleridge to Biggs, who was printing the 80oo edition of Lyrical Ballads, the

The manuscript consists of poetical pieces and extracts collected by Richard Enock who matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in I673. The book was compiled while he was an undergraduate, for it bears the date 1677, with his signature, on the first page.

The following are the chief variations from the readings in the quartos and in the Haward MS.

1. 6. That, Gallants, hee may more resemble you (for they in the quarto and it in the Haward MS.).

1. 10. I vow methinks hee's pretty company (this corresponds with the quarto reading rejected by Mr. Brett- Smith, as a printer's error, in favour of the version in the Haward MS., I [i.e. Ay] now methinks).

1. i6 (14 in the quarto) makes nonsense as it stands, To fill and finish God almighty, Fool

(but the fill for file gives some authority to the Scott-Saintsbury reading of the line).

The couplet referring to Dryden himself, omitted in the published play, appears as in the Haward MS., though in a different position. The last seven couplets differ in sequence from the arrangement in the other versions. Their order is, I think, a more logical one. The two climatic lines

Yet none S' Fopling him, or him can call Hee's knight o' th' Sheir, and represents you all

conclude the account of the beau's representative character. The four lines describing his " diving Bow " follow the description of the " new French wallow," thus placing the entire picture of his demeanour before the account of his dress and his songs--" the Ladies dear delight."

WILLARD TLIORP.

LYRICAL BALLADS, A VARIANT?

ANY peculiarity in the 1798 issue of Lyrical Ballads is of importance to students and to collectors of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

In " A Description of the Wordsworth and Coleridge Manuscripts in the Possession of Mr. T. Norton Longman," London, 1897, p. 44, W. Hale White quoted from a letter written by Coleridge to Biggs, who was printing the 80oo edition of Lyrical Ballads, the

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