{"id":"01KG6S6TFS22C34A02X0SJCAYP","cid":"bafkreiagnlcozqndnzgfv7ahjxo5o4yllgqw45laomvpynmbm4zan3ngyu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":14024,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.293Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":13981,"text":"¹ In the novel it is said of the famine-stricken city that she ‘not yet two summers younger did excell in pompe’.\n\n\nPERICLES 25\nProgressive degradation of the text.\nThe two editions of 1609.\n\nprinted from the same cause. In the Spanish motto (ii. 2. 27) the words ‘Piu’ and ‘que’ appear as ‘Pue’ and ‘kee’ respectively, and in the Latin motto (ii. 2. 30) the word ‘pompae’ is disguised as ‘Pompey’.\n\n*Pericles* was printed at least eight times in the course of the seventeenth century. Each edition differs from the other in minute points of typography. But no endeavour was made by the editors or printers to give intelligibility to the corrupted text or to respect the metrical intention of the authors until 1709, when *Pericles* was included in Nicholas Rowe’s collection of Shakespeare’s plays. Small literary interest attaches to the successive seventeenth-century editions. They present a curious picture of the progressive degradation of a text which was at the outset inexcusably corrupt.\n\nTwo editions were produced by Gosson in 1609, and it is difficult to determine which is the earlier. It is obvious that they are nearly related to one another. They closely resemble each other in their general incompetence. The title-pages are at all points identical. But the variations in spelling and typographic detail, which from the literary point of view are unimportant, are sufficiently numerous to prove that they represent two settings of the type, one of which followed the other with slight arbitrary changes. The ornamental initial letter ‘T’, at the opening of the text, is of different pattern in each edition. An occasional correction was introduced in the second setting, but it was usually balanced by the insertion elsewhere of a new misprint or misspelling, so that it is not easy to state that the text of one edition of 1609 is better than that of the other. The one is easily distinguished from the other by the first stage-direction, which in the one appears correctly ‘Enter Gower’, and in the other is misprinted ‘Enter Gower’. The copy in the Malone collection in the\n\nD\n\n\n26\nPERICLES\n\nBodleian Library, which is reproduced here in facsimile, has the ‘Enzer Gower’ opening. Although certainty on the point is impossible, the ‘Enzer Gower’ opening seems to be the mark of the first setting of the type.¹\n\nThe actual differences of reading are few. But on the whole the compositor of the ‘Enzer Gower’ edition, who may be judged to have worked direct from the corrupt manuscript, seems to have been more careful than the compositor of the ‘Enzer Gower’ edition, who worked from his colleague’s proof.\n\nSome of the misprints of the first compositor were avoided by the second. But the obvious misprints are more numerous in the second setting than in the first. Thus, where the first prints rightly *potion* (i. 2. 68), the other misprints *portion*. Similar examples are:—\n\n| In the ‘Enzer’\n(first) edition. | In the ‘Enzer’\n(second) edition. |\n| --- | --- |\n| i. 1. 41. thee | hee |\n| i. 2. 55. plants | planets |\n| 93. spares | feares |\n| ii. Chor. 14. Statue | Statute |\n| iii. Chor. 53. fell | selfe |\n| iii. 1. 5. gently | dayly |\n| 60. give | bring |\n| iii. 2. 91. there | their |\n| iii. 3. 19. still | dayly |\n| iv. 1. 21. keep | weepe |\n\n¹ The ‘Enzer’ copy has throughout on the left-hand page (even on the last left-hand page, which has no right-hand companion) the headline, ‘The Play of,’ and on the right-hand ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre’; while the ‘Enzer’ copy, which has on the right-hand page throughout the same heading (‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre’), repeats those words on nineteen of the thirty-four left-hand pages of the text, and only on the remaining fifteen left-hand pages does ‘The Play of’ appear.\n\n\nPERICLES 27","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S5HR1SP6NGY1Q4N5QGHD5","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6TFS89DYF4G19SJF3JQC","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:50.681Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:25:00.624Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}