'Richer far does he esteeme.'
So the Sancroft ms.
St. xv. lines 5 and 6, ib. read
'No April e're lent softer showres,
Nor May returned fairer flowers.'
'Faithful' looks deeper: but the Sancroft ms. agrees with '46 and '70.
St. xvii. line 2, in 1648 misreads
'With loves and tears, and smils disputing.'
Turnbull, without the slightest authority, seeing not even in 1670 are the readings found, has thus printed lines 2 and 4, 'With loves, of tears with smiles disporting' ... 'Each other kissing and comforting'!!
St. xviii. line 2 in 1648 misreads
'Friends with the balsome fires that fill thee.'