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| Addenda. p. 363. Song ('By all Loves soft, yet mighty Pow'rs'). Add second sentence to headnote. | |
| Nonetheless, if the poem is thought of as addressed to Phyllis with the intention of being read by and responded to by her, it would be necessary to find a courtly recipient. That Phillis may have been Nell Gwyn is suggested by a passage from 'A satyr upon the mistresses' ('Immortal Powers, Inspire me, while I sing') in which she is described as 'Fam'd for not wearing of the double Clout' (BL MS Harl. 6913, p. 370). There is anecdotal evidence for Rochester having been one of Nell's early lovers. The idea for the poem may well have come from Voiture's 'A une demoiselle qui avoit les manches de la chemise retrous?es et sales' of which it can be regarded as a parodic reworking. |
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| p. 368. Add to end of note on 15. nere stirr: | |
| For evidence that the term was also used as a mild expletive see The country gentleman: a lost play and its background, ed. Arthur H. Scouten and Robert D. Hume (Philadelphia, 1976), p. 77 n. | |
| p. 370. Add at the end of the collation: | |
| An anonymous Latin translation follows Rochester's poem in Orp81 on f. 22v: Qualis ab exacto dux classis marte solutus | |
| p. 370. Add to end of note 48: | |
| Cf. also Wycherley, The country-wife (1675), III. ii. 46: 'an old maim'd General, when unfit for action is fittest for Counsel'(Plays, p. 288). | |
| p. 370. Add following first sentence to headnote to Senec. Troas. Act 2. Chor.: | |
| Rochester may have been drawn to the passage by the similar adaptation in Lee's Nero , IV. iii. 13-22, the play being dedicated to him. | |
| p. 372. Add to end of note on l. 12: | |
| This line only contains ten syllables; however, its spondaic character gives the pentameter the weight of a hexameter. | |
| p. 384. Add to end of headnote to 'Against reason and mankind': | |
| For a discussion of critiques in plays of the period see Brian Hammond and Paulina Kewes, 'A satyre against reason and mankind from page to stage' in That second bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , ed. Nicholas Fisher (Manchester: M.U.P., 2000), pp. 133-64. | |
| p. 396. Add to end of note on 0.1: | |
| For further discussion of the resonances of the name see Gillian Manning, 'Artemiza to Chloe : Rochester's 'female' epistle' in Fisher, pp. 101-18, esp. pp. 104-8. | |
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p. 409. Satire 'What vaine unnecessary things are men'. Replace the last sentence of the headnote with: |
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| Edward L. Saslow, 'A "New" Epilogue by Rochester',Restoration 23 (1999), 1-9, argues cogently that the poem is an epilogue to an all-female performance of Fletcher's Rollo. The date seems to have been June 1672 when the Theatre Royal women were acting at Lincoln's Inn Fields during a strike by the men. | |
| p. 446. Add new note for Sab: Lost., line 1: | |
| Cf. Lee, Nero, III. iii. 54-5. 'She yields, she yields! her looks her thoughts betray! / Greatness is entred, and her soul gives way.' | |
| p. 449. Add at end of para 2, following '. . . more literal treatment': | |
| For further consideration of Rochester's treatment of his inheritance from Fletcher see Harold Love 'The rapes of Lucina' in Print, manuscript and performance: The changing relations of the media in early modern England, ed. Michael Bristol and Arthur Marotti (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000), pp. 200-14. | |
| p. 450. Replace second sentence with the following: | |
| The second prologue (`Spoken by Mrs. Cook', text at pp. 643-4) is represented in `Letter to Julian' (`Dear Julian, twice or thrice a year') as a collaborative work involving Jack Howe, Wolseley, George Etherege, Charles Viscount Mordaunt and Sir William Soames: Jack
Howe, thy patron, 's just left the town, Both versions of line 22, it would seem, had been tried at performances without raising a laugh, and the blame laid on the performer. The epilogue to Valentinian is attributed by the same source to Etherege and Charles, Viscount Mordaunt. | |
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p. 464. Note on ll. 190. the old Hall. Add at end: | |
| For a fuller exploration of these allusions see Harold Love,'Was Lucina betrayed at Whitehall?' in Fisher, pp. 179-190. | |
| p. 467. Note on ll. 296-330. Replace opening sentence with: | |
| This striking episode of stanzaic declamation may have been suggested by Lee's Nero, V. iii. 50-81, though Lee's example is a dialogue not a monologue. The play was dedicated to Rochester. | |
| p. 468. Add new note on V. ii. 20-31: | |
| Perhaps suggested by Lee, Nero , V. iii. 185-97. | |
| p. 479. Revise end of note on A91 to read: | |
| 161-2); however, by 1677 he was certainly limping as well (Letters , pp. 161 and n., 184 and n.). Treglown suggests that both characteristics may have been the result of medical treatment with mercury. | |
| p. 490 Anstruther. Replace existing note with | |
| Referring to the court beauty Grace Anstruther. Her copy of the 1675 edition of Buckingham's The Rehearsal is in the Beinecke Library, Yale University. | |
| p. 497. Sodom and Gomorah . Headnote. Emend '. . . reference to our Sodom' to read '~~~~, especially as line from that play is parodied in Sodom'. | |
| p. 499. Scene 1. Add new note: | |
| 2. Parodying Crowne, The destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, II. II. i. 26: 'We fight to eat, and eat to fight again'. | |
| p. 512. Add the following variants to the collation of A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Strephon: | |
| Source
collated: Np40, pp. 133-5 0.1 title] A Pastoral Dialogue - Between Alexis and Strephon Poem is divided by speakers not stanzas in Np40, Yo34 and 91po. 1 Strephon , there] There Np40 9 omitted Np40 14 are] ere Np40 15 are] ere Np40 16 give] gaue Np40 18 ever] euery Np40 21 are] e're Np40 23 with] take Np40 25 Then] And Np40 27 to hate] in heat Np40 31-35 omitted Np40 37 humble] humbled Np40 39 other's] other Np40 40 are] ere Np40 41 Flames] flame Np40 42 Heart's] heart Np40 43 Fires] fire Np40 45 Streph. Would'st] woulst thou Np40 46 Be] Strep: ~ Np40 thy] yr Np40 dies] dye Np40 48 the] yr Np40 50 Thine no more Alive] then to mone a boue Np40 53 at] and Np40 61 Trees] tears Np40 64 injur'd] immurd Np40 65 They] And Np40 Source collated: DA, p. 10 [Stanzas 4 and 5 only.] 0.1 title] Essay E R Speakers' names absent. 16 DA begins 19 a] the DA 23 omitted DA 24 Make a sweet] No sooner make a DA 25 Then add] But streight do add DA | |
| p. 517. Add at end of headnote to `Naked she lay clasped in my longing arms': | |
| British Library, Add. MS 29497, f. 46v (p. 102), preserves a scored-through version of lines 5-37. Lines 1-4 and 38-72 would have been found on the excised pages 101 and 103 respectively. The manuscript's Index confirms the title as `The imperfect enjoyment'. | |
| p. 544 Add at end of headnote: | |
| Yale University Library, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn b 327 (Yo27), ff. 9v-10r, contains a complete text of `Upon Nothing' attributed to `Rotchester' belonging to the `nothing' group. | |
| p. 608. Add at end of headnote: | |
| British Library, Additional MS 29497 had a version of the poem on the excised f. 111r (p. 260), identifiable from the title in the index `The mock song' and by the last line, which is just visible. | |
| p. 624. Add following: | |
| This assessment is confirmed by Germaine Greer's identification of alterations to the MS as being in the hand of Rochester's mother (John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Horndon: Northcote House, 2000), p. 8.) | |
| p. 663. Add to 0.1 title]: | |
| Tacitus de vita Agricol? An Allusion Yo08 | |
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| 1 freeborn] fee borne Yo08 3 Tributes] Tribute Yo08 6 guided] Goven'd Yo08 judgement] Judgemts Yo08 8 by] wth Yo08-uncorr was never] is never Yo08 9 Laws] Law Yo08 'em] them Yo08 11 Reigne is] rule is Yo08 12 least safe] Unsafe Yo08 16 line var.] Those Guardian Lawes, wth force to Underrmine Yo08 17 Can never] Cause never Yo08-uncorr 18 What] Yo08-uncorr; Noe Yo08-corr wou'd] Yo08-uncorr; will Yo08-corr change] Chance ?Yo08-uncorr 19 stake] shake Yo08 20 Usurp his own] pretence his <illeg. >-Yo08-uncorr 21 Tis rather] It's worthy Yo08 favourites vile] favorites Yo08 22 at the wrong'd kings] at a wrong'd Kings Yo08 23 their] the Yo08 27 servile] slavish Yo08 yoakes] yoak Yo08 28 dares do] dare doe Yo08 29 Roman nor Norman] Roman or Norman Yo08 ever] never Yo08 Could] did Yo08 30 line var. T'enslave ys Isle but made itt still their freind Yo08 | |
| p. 671. IMPROMPTU ON CHARLES II. Seventh version. Add to Source collated: BLa22, f. 4v. | |
| Add to collation: 0.1 title ] On the king [Index title] 1 great and Mighty] Merry BLa22 2 no Man] none BLa22 3 said] spoke BLa22 | |
| New sources (1) British Library, Add. MS 73540 (BLa40) contains texts of the following poems contained in the edition. For a full index see the Indexes to source manuscripts. Between Father Patrick and his highness of late (Upon the Dukes turning Papist) (ff. 48v-49r) Oh! all ye faire Ladyes of merry England (Upon Seignour Dildo. p[er] Rochester) (ff. 58v-60r) [Dear friend. I hear this town does so abound (Upon Common Fame) (f. 62r)[ll. 89-100 only (conflating ll. 93-4), preserved from `There's not a thing on Earth that I can name'] Nothing, thou Elder Brother even to shade (Upon Nothing) (ff. 68v-69v) As some brave Admirall in former Warre (The Maymed Drunkard) (ff. 71r-72r) All my past Life is mine no more (Song / Love and life E R) (f. 73v) Phillis be Gentler I advise (Song E R) (f. 74r) Love bad me Hope and I obey'd (Womans Honour E R) (ff. 74v-75r) Love a Woman? You're an Ass (Song E R) (f. 75v) What Cruell Paines Corinna takes (Song E R) (f. 76r) How happy Cloris, wert thou free (Song) (ff. 76v-77r) Tis not that I am weary growne (To Celia for Inconstancy E R) (ff. 77v-78r) Give me leave to Raile at you (Song) (f. 78r-v) Nothing adds to your fond fire ([as stanzas 3, 4 and 5 of previous]) (ff. 78v-79r) To wrack and torture thy ill meaning braine (My Lord Rochester on Sir C. S.)(ff. 79v-80r) Raile on poore feeble Scribbler, speake of Me (His Answre) (f. 80r) Clohe in Verse by your Command I write (A Letter from Artimiza in Towne To Clohe in the Country per E R) (ff. 80v-86v) Oh Love how cold and slow to take my part (Ovid Amor: Liber 2dus Eleg 9th O Nunquam pro me satis indignare Cupido. To Love) (ff. 86v-88r) [Were I who to my cost already am] (A supplemt to my Ld Rochesters Satyr agt Man. not Printed [`The Addition' only, and omitting last 2 lines]) (ff. 88r-89r) (2) Yale University Library, Osborn Collection b 369 This recently-acquired manuscript, owned in 1687 by Thomas Hunt, contains new texts of 'Against Reason and Mankind' and 'Upon Nothing'. | |
| Corrigenda. | |
| p. vi, l. 28. | Replace `to the' with `the'. |
| p. 258. l. 28 | replace `dare' with `dares' |
| p. 284. | Copy-text should read: Copy-text: NLI93, pp. 109-11 |
| p. 337. | Add 35 to BLa22 |
| p. 338. | Add 92 to DA |
| p. 339. | Add 46 to ILr |
| p. 341 | Add 92 to Np40 |
| p. 343. | Add below Yo05: Yo08 Yale University Library, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn b 108 [96] |
| p. 344 | Add below Yo89 : Yom16 Yale University Library, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn MUS 16 [104] |
| p. 351 | To Love., n. 4. Question marks following Oppres'd and L?dis should be italic. |
| p. 384, l. 16. | Remove comma following closing bracket. |
| p. 386. | Boyer reference should read `7th edn (London, 1717), p. 327'. |
| p. 428. | 243. Replace `see p. 000' with `see p. 244' |
| p. 429 | 3. Replace `and p. 000' with `and pp. 97-8' |
| p. 433. | ON THE SUPPOS'D AUTHOR. Replace `35' with 30-4'. |
| p. 439. | 195. Replace `l. 9' with `ll. 9-10' |
| pp. 435-6. | Triplet brace at head of p. 436 is one line in advance of its correct position. |
| p. 472. | A MASK. Replace `see p. 000' with `see pp. 232-40' |
| p. 515. | Sources collated: change ILr from `ff. 19r-20r' to `ff.[19r-20r]' |
| p. 517. | THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT. Replace `p. 000' with `p. 504' |
| p. 537. | TO THE POST BOY. Sources collated: correct BLh12, to pp. 107-8 |
| p. 549. | Add to Emendations : 150 t'encrease] 't encrease |
| p. 538. | In line 2 of headnote to `The disabled debauchee' replace `distribution spectrum' with `intermediation spectrum'. |
| pp. 556-62 | AGAINST REASON AND MANKIND. Replace Iln with Ilr throughout the Introduction: p. 557, l. 13; p. 558, l. 10; p. 559, l. 4 up; p. 561, ll. 14 and 16; p. 562, ll. 7, 15 and 34 |
| p. 564, l. 6. | Replace `emendation' with `solution'. |
| p. 564. | Add to Emendations: 30 wise.] ~, |
| p. 577. | Add to Emendations: 49 Love).] ~)' 89 kill-] ~' |
| p. 609. | Add to Sources collated:
Yom16 [ll. 31-4] NLI93 title should read: My Ld Rochester answrs [om. uncorr] to ye defence of satyr NLI93; |
| p. 610. | Add
to collation: 31 Yom16 begins rewrite entry: 34 entirely' but] entyre, but for He23 ,He36,Yom16, 07mw |
| p. 610. | ANSWER BY WAY OF EPIGRAM. He36 title should read: `The Answer by Sr. S.C.' |
| p. 616. | Add to Emendations: 34 Art,] ~' |
| p. 645. | Dramatis personae. Add to line 1: 85va has characters' names only, not those of actors. |
| p. 662 | Add to Sources collated: Yo08, p. 267 |
| p. 666. | ONE WRITING AGINST HIS PRICK. Delete BLh12, pp. 107-8 in Additional sources and correct Mc14, f. 38v to f. 37v. |
| p. 668. | BROAD SIDE AGAINST MARRIAGE. Add to Additional sources:ILr , ff. [5]r, [6]r [ll. 37-84] |
| p. 669. | Copy-text for ON THE LADY MARY STEWART should read:Copy-text:NLI93 , pp. 109-11 |
| p. 670 | A DREAM. Additional sources: correct `Yo70, p. 150' to `Yo70 , p. 50' |
| p. 675 | Line 6, Np40 pagination should read: `pp. a1-a22' |
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