Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. / With an Introduction, Textual Notes, a List of Editions, an Appendix of Translations, and a Portrait.

by Thomas Stanley

[15:2.] P. 22, line 8. i.e. ‘I [who] know no native light but light borrowed from thee.’ The rather obscure phrase is obscured the more by its slovenly original punctuation.

[15:3.] P. 22, line 10. ‘Wouldst’: 1651.

The Blush (p. 24).

[16:1.] P. 24, line 11. ‘Conferr’d’ in 1647; ‘comferd’ in Gamble’s Ayres, 1657. The right word is obvious.

[16:2.] P. 24, line 16. ‘Knows’: 1647.

The Cold Kiss (p. 25).

[17:1.] P. 25, line 3. ‘These’: 1657.

[17:2.] P. ” line 12. ‘My’: 1657.

[17:3.] P. ” line 15. ‘Lip’: 1657.

The Idolater (p. 25).