Hero and Leander: begun by Christopher Marloe; and finished by George Chapman

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Hero and Leander: begun by Christopher Marloe; and finished by George Chapman

Author name: Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
EEBO ID: 99840679 Date: 1598 Bib name / number: STC (2nd ed.) / 17414
Copy from: British Library
UMI Coll. / reel no.: Early English Books, 1475-1640 / 815:05 Physical Description: [104] p.
Imprint: At London : Printed by Felix Kingston, for Paule Linley, and are to be solde in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Blacke-beare, 1598.
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Marlowe wrote sestiads 1-2, Chapman 3-6.
In verse.
Signatures: A-N4.
The last leaf is blank.
Variant: title misprints "Leandr".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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It looks as though the source copy (from the British Library, Shelfmark C.40.e.68.(1.)) for the EEBO facsimile of this item, which is filmed at reel position STC 815:05, has been bound with its gatherings in the wrong order.

 

In order to find the continuation of that part of the third sestiad printed on sig. G4v (i.e. the page forming the verso side of the opening shown on Document Image number 33), ending ‘Thus, her sharpe wit, her loue, her secrecie, / Trouping’, it is necessary to look at sig. H1r, which forms the recto side of the opening shown on Document Image 17.  The text on sig. H1r begins ‘Trouping together, made her wonder why’, which matches the catchword at the bottom of sig. G4v.

 

The third sestiad concludes on sig. H1r (the recto side of Document Image 17); the fourth sestiad begins over the page on Document Image 18 and continues until one reaches Document Image 21; the verso side of Document Image 21 shows sig. H4v, but the verso side shows sig. E1r.  At this point, one must pick the poem up again with the text on the recto side of Document Image number 33 – you’ll see that the catchword (and rhyme word) at the bottom of sig. H4v on Document Image 21 (‘The woolfie sting of Auarice it would pull / And’) ties up with the text at the top of sig. I1r on the recto side of Document Image 33 (‘And make the rankest miser bountifull.’).

 

In other words, the H gathering (sigs H1r–H4v, or the recto side of Document Image 17 through to the verso side of Document Image 21) has been sewn into the wrong position by the binder, and should have been positioned between the two pages shown on Document Image 33 (i.e. sig.G4v and sig. I1r).

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