The Battle of the Books; with selections from the literature of the Phalaris controversy/Textual Notes
TEXTUAL NOTES
The following notes give the more important variants of the 1st (1704), 3rd (1704), 5th (1710), and 6th (1724) edd, of the Battle of the Books.
P. 1 note. Clarke, 1, 3, 5; Clark, 6.
P. 4, l. 9. summity, 1, 5, 6; summit, 3.
P. 5, ll. 2, 3. as to the levelling, 5, 6; as to levelling, 1, 3
P. 14, l. 3. turn-pikes, 1, 3; turk-pikes, 5, 6.
P. 15, l. 1. his, 5, 6; this, 1, 3.
P. 15, l. 14. Is it, 5, 6; It is, 1, 3,
P. 15, ll. 15, 16. Could not you, 5, 6; Could you not, 1, 3.
P. 17, l. 12. my flights and my music, 5, 6; my flights and music, 1, 3.
P. 17, l. 13. have bestowed on me, 5, 6; have bestowed me, 1, 3.
P. 17, last line. and I hope, 1, 5, 6; and hope, 3.
P. 18, l. 18, at all, 3, 5, 6; at last, 1.
P. 18, ll. 14-21. All the edd. have 'whether is the nobler being of the two, that which by a lazy contemplation of four inches round; by an overweening pride, which feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom; producing nothing at all [last; see above], but fly bane and a cobweb: or that, which, by an universal range, with long search, much study, true judgement, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax?'
The passage can be corrected either by omitting which before feeding, or by changing producing to produces.
P. 22, l. 4. farther, 5, 6; further, 1, 3.
P. 26, ll. 9, 10. her teeth fallen out before, 1, 3, 5, 6.
P. 27, ll. 4, 5. resentment, 5, 6; resentments, 1, 3.
P. 27, l. 19. dare oppose me, 5, 6; dare to oppose me, 1, 3.
P. 29, l. 19. of this day, 5, 6; of the day, 1, 3.
P. 35, l. 9. 3 and 5 have the line as printed; 6 fills up the line with asterisks.
P. 37, l. 12. and (first word in line) omitted in 1, which reads 'the ends turned . . . '; 3, 5, 6 as printed.
P. 37, l. 14. In 1, 3 the line is filled; 5, doubtful; 6 apparently leaves a space, as printed.
P. 41, l. 11. the t'other, 3; t'other, 1, 5, 6.
P. 42, ll. 10, 11. wild ass broke loose (with no comma after 'ass'), 1, 3, 5, 6.
P. 47, ll. 8, 9 Charon will, 1, 3; Charon would, 5, 6.