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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney

“Perching within square royal _roves_” to _rooves_. “Which _conduite_-like with curious crooks,” to _conduit_. “he was driven with the _pummel_ of his sword” to _pommel_. “a mile hence, and crossing a _high-way_” to _highway_. “To _cause full-wrath_, which thou can’st not resist” to _causeful wrath_. “Can thoughts still thinking, so rest _unapalled_?” to _unappalled_. “And in thy case do _glaze_ mine own debility:” to _glass_. “The wretch compell’d a _runnagate_ became,” to _runagate_. “but humbly besought Pamela _we_ should perform” to _she_. “could not but _fertily_ requite his father’s fatherly” to _fertilely_. “thou now receive this disastered _changling_” to _changeling_. “keeping a countenance _ascances_ she understood” to _askance_. “with all the _conjuriug_ words which desire could indite” to _conjuring_. “unto me to meet him at a place _appionted_” to _appointed_. “have left such an _off-spring_, in shape” to _offspring_. “those servants of _our’s_ in readiness” to _ours_. “thereto had she that _scutchion_ of her desires” to _scutcheon_. “who had been one of the _cheifest make-bates_” to _chiefest makebates_. “laying indifferently among _tbem_, made such havoc” to _them_. “meaning to observe a _wassailling_ watch all” to _wassailing_. “seemed to sing _mauger_ the _mauses_” to _maugre_ and _Muses_. “which being _confrmed_ with presagious chances” to _confirmed_. “dull to any _behooful_ resolution” to _behoveful_. “marking eyes, he conferred _wtth_ Antiphilus” to _with_. “some hazard he might be in _apparant_ likelihood” to _apparent_. “she had even newly _recelved_ news from” to _received_. “which _multipled_ the force of his anguish” to _multiplied_. “by so _henious_ a treason murdered” to _heinous_. “Thy _faint_ is dead, or dead is thy devotion” to _saint_. “although my _mettall_ were most mutable” to _metal_. “I curse the _fidling_ finders out of music” to _fiddling_. “On _rock’d_ despair, the burial of my bliss” to _rock_. “The seed _saft meaning_ is, no truth to miss” to _fast-meaning_. “Hailstones of tears, of _sight_ a monstrous blast,” to _sighs_. “Be those despairs which have my hopes quite _waft_” to _rased_. “For even the herbs our hateful music _destroyes_” to _stroys_. “Who minds to please the mind drown’d in _annoyes_” to _annoys_. “For proof of man, _woo_ sprung of heav’nly fire” to _who_. “One _faith_, he mocks; another _faith_ he plays,” change both to _saith_. “Yet thou art mickle _warse_, then e’er was I” to _worse_. “When that we see our _off-spring_ gaily bent” to _offspring_. “And what manner a mind which had to that humour a _vain_?” to _vein_. “Can then a cause be so light that forceth a man to go die? _I_.” to _Aye_. “since unto her will I do _winde_? _Winde_.” to _wind_ and _Wind_. “_Wo_, but seems to me joy, that agrees” to _Woe_. “_Ods_? what an _ods_ is there since” to _Odds_ and _odds_. “My muse what _ailes_ this ardor” to _ails_. “So great passion all feel,” add _a_ after _great_. “Alas she _faith_ I am thine” to _saith_. “Thus sweet pain, I do yield _what ere_ I can yield,” to _whate’er_. [Book III] “Dread not _awhit_ (O goodly cruel) that pity may” to _a whit_. “but they set so among certain _tuffs_ of cypress” to _tufts_. “Therefore would he not _emply_ the still man” to _employ_. “and will confirm his _gilt_, and your receipt of both” to _gift_. “Then can one string make as good music as a _concert_” to _consort_. “I have now such a liberty as the _sealed_ dove hath” to _seeled_. “the more it did _exprobate_, as she thought” to _exprobrate_. “marriage; the worthiness of the _suiter_” to _suitor_. “a certain _prophesy_ had been told him that” to _prophecy_. “For near _acquaintaince_ doth diminish reverent fear” to _acquaintance_. “was rather increased than _any wise_ satisfied” to _anywise_. “any entertainment of so unwelcome a guest the made Cecropia” delete _the_ and add comma after _guest_. “Dear niece, or rather dear _daugher_, if my affection” to _daughter_. “great clerks into the world to serve as _shields_ to keep them from those faults” to _shewels_ (“scarecrows”). “by the staff of _vulger_ opinions, I would not” to _vulgar_. “tail covered the crupper of of the horse” delete one _of_. “so that he battered the _lams_ thereof” to _lames_. “His _petrel_ and reins were embroidered with” to _poitrel_. “Amphialus had _over sticken_ himself so” to _over-stricken_. “letting him have reins, _petrel_, with the rest” to _poitrel_. “was indeed like the painter, that _faith_ in his picture” to _saith_. “thy wretched heart think it was _timerousness_ that made” to _timorousness_. “Place, see my grave _up torn_” to _uptorn_. “repine with never so much grieving-Mother,” replace hyphen with period and space. “This _sight_ being the more cruel, since both love” to _fight_. “took a body to show his (_self unconceivable_) beauty” to _else-unconceivable_. “and looking a sideward upon the ground” delete _a_. “that were _accessary_ to this cruelty” to _accessory_. “for no eye could have _abiden_ to see such beauty” to _abidden_. “_prefering_ dutiful affection before fearful duty” to _preferring_. “that thou art _he_ beggarliest dastardly villain” to _the_. “means to temper the minds of their proud _woers_” to _wooers_. “self-love then first in him divided itself from _vain glory_” to _vainglory_. “No _villian_, die: it is Philoclea that” to _villain_. “a strong _cask_ bravely covered, wherewith he covered his head” to _casque_. “encroached to usurp a room in her right _ride_” to _side_. “the rest were quickly _discomfitted_, and, despairing” _discomfited_. (“can Musidorus have anything wherein I have no interest?” “_I_,” said he, “and for the present a greater wonder...) to _Aye_. “and we only can restore them to _themselvee_” to _themselves_. (“_I_,” quoth he, “and when my man Dorus durst...) to _Aye_. “my sun, whose beams are _shinlng_ bright” to _shining_. “which dost lightsomely, _methink_, make me see the...” to _methinks_. “Betwixt which two in me I have this _sight_” to _fight_. “_scattering_ lying a great number of rich medals” to _scatteringly_. “and with a look full of _sworn_ spite” to _forworn_. “never after to feed on worse than _furmetry_” to _frumenty_. “Giv’n to my heart, by my forewounded _eye_:” to _eyne_. “_Ho’d_ me most yours, then my long suit is sign’d.” to _Hold_. “Nay higher thoughts (though thralled thoughts)” add _I call_ to the end of the line. “You none can claim but you yourself _a right_,” to _aright_. “with the _shame faced_ look of that suitor” to _shamefaced_. “rising up with a kindly _bashfulnes_” to _bashfulness_. “I can never _acccount_ a wrong” to _account_. “(Better despis’d) _be wonder_ gazing eye.” to _bewonder_. “As _princes lose_ or change:” to _prince’s loss_. “Two _gleaning_ suns of splendour like I see,” to _gleaming_. “For _mishiefs_ great, day after day doth show,” to _mischiefs_. “commanded them to carry _forwith_ Zelmane’s bed” to _forthwith_. “Where simple love, which _chastness_ doth impart,” to _chasteness_. “So that you may on higher _flippers_ stay,” to _slippers_. “Burnt Caban, lost my _cloke_,” to _cloak_. “Lanquet, the _shepherds_ best swift Ister knew,” to _shepherd_. “His good strong staff my _flipp’ry_ years upbore:” to _slipp’ry_. “Ant, industry; and _conney_, skill to build;” to _coney_. “And aye more awe towards him for to _plaint_,” to _plant_. “As tigers, leopards, bears, and _lion’s feed_” to _lions’ seed_. “When falcon they, and _gross hawk_ saw in mew” to _goss-hawk_. “Austere she is, when he would honest _p’ays_;” to _plays_. “Lord, what _bye-words_ they speak, what spite” to _bywords_. “That never _past soul_ word, I dare well say:” to _passed foul_. [Book IV] “_left_ all consideration how to recover her” to _leave_. “daughter’s little wits had quite left her great _noul_” to _noll_. “mumping out her hoarse _chase_” to _chafe_. “creatures, as _Phyche_ did upon her unknown lover” to _Psyche_. “included all the world within his _sheep coat_” to _sheep-cote_. “to _taste_ into herself new devised counsel” to _take_. “Of _humane_ life to be the quiet measure” to _human_. “that which may _by_ safest for yourself” to _be_. “O mother of mine what a dreadful _fuck_ have you given” to _suck_. “perfectest workmanship, their _chieftest_ honour” to _chiefest_. “For if it were not a respecting the harm,” delete _a_. “and to _became_ all as well hangmen as judges” to _become_. “which as soon as she _apppeared_ to play her part” to _appeared_. “hold but of Pamela, _thinkihg_ it want of a” to _thinking_. “her grace knew the ancient laws of Arcadia _were_” to _bare_. “which likewise _acording_ to the statutes of Arcadia” to _according_. “as windows, stones, and _pinacles_ were well” to _pinnacles_. “was an extreme _medly_ of diversified thoughts” to _medley_. “the soldiers _desirious_ of trouble, as the nurse of” to _desirous_. “and laying order for the _goverment_ by” to _government_. “especially in a _pince_ under whom they had found a refuge” to _prince_. “And inward grief _fail_ up with outward wailing” to _seal_. “Within itself, and never _tasted_ end:” to _tasteth_. [Book V] “kept close, _withou_ conference with any man” to _without_. “be shadowed out by the _skillfullest_ pencil than by” to _skilfullest_. “that it doth _appal_ their minds” to _appall_. “or the _licourishness_ of dominion make you beyond justice” to _lickerishness_. “the modern minds, who made _suiters_ magistrates” to _suitors_. “Philanax and the other _moblemen_ should deal” to _noblemen_. “Had she I say no practice to lead her unto it?” add commas after _she_ and _say_. “the name of this mankind _courtisan_ shall ever be remembered” to _courtesan_. “in this matter, _e’er_ the eyes of the world upon you” to _are_. “excellent Philoclea her _hononr_, by taking” to _honour_. “hard-heartedly bent to _apppoint_ otherwise” to _appoint_. “these two are both abominable and _inexcuseable_” to _inexcusable_. “which had _Lynce’s_ eyes in another’s” to _lynx’s_. [Book VI] “much pitying the before-unheard of death of so excellent a queen” delete first _of_. “what estate the castle was against the _beseigers_” to _besiegers_. “the _fates_ reserved so great a blessing in store” to _Fates_. “begging what goodness _solicites_ you to grant” to _solicits_. “and the ill-bought quiet of an _ignominous_ peace” to _ignominious_. “This kingdom of _Argus_, wherein you are,” to _Argos_. “the _fates_ must be indulgent to your youth and beauty” to _Fates_. “with a _down-cast_ look, which sorrow excused” to _downcast_. “Sweet link of hearts, joy’s surest _anchor hold_,” to _anchor-hold_. “Man still complains upon his state to _lowre_,” to _lower_. [End of text]