Beautified, adorned and
well furnished, with Pleasaunt
Histories and excellent
Nouelles, selected out of
diuers good and commendable
Authors.
¶ By William Painter Clarke of the
Ordinaunce and Armarie.
[Illustration: HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE]
1566
IMPRINTED AT
London, by Henry Denham,
for Richard Tottell and William Iones.
[Spelling in the Novels]
Fused forms such as “thende” occur side by side with “the ende”. Word-initial “u” and non-initial “v” are in the original.
Specific words:
“renowme” is far more frequent than “renowne”
“alablaster” is standard for the period
“Cræsus” is used consistently
Error Handling
The printed book did not include an Errata list. It is therefore impossible to tell whether irregularities of spelling, punctuation and typography in the primary text are unique to the Jacobs edition (1890), or whether they were deliberately carried over from Haslewood (1813) and/or Painter (1566 and later).
Errors and anomalies are handled in one of three ways, all using mouse-hover popups:
Clear errors in the text are marked but not changed: guie.
Missing punctuation—generally closing quotation marks—is added in grey with a note: ” .
Unusual forms were verified and noted: quisq’;.