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

‘To seek t’inspire
A heart so pure as mine.’

‘To seek t’inspire
A heart so pure as mine.’

[24:2.] P. ” line 12. 1647: ‘you’ll.’

Expectation (p. 32).

[25:1.] P. 32, line 5. 1647: ‘or.’

The Breath (p. 33).

[26:1.] P. 33, line 8. Sic in 1647 and 1657. ‘He back receives’: 1651.

[26:2.] P. ” line 11. 1647 and 1657 have: ‘Which, while he sportively.’

Gamble evidently had the 1647 copy of this song before him, as he follows it throughout, slighting Stanley’s corrections of 1651.

[26:3.] P. 33, line 16. 1647 and 1657: ‘back.’