A crux in the text of Lee's "Princess of Cleve" (1689), II.i The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Bowers, Fredson. 1950. A crux in the text of Lee's "Princess of Cleve" (1689), II.i. Harvard Library Bulletin IV (3), Autumn 1950: 409-411. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42674308 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Notes A Crux i11 the Text of Lee's Princess of Cleve (1689 ), IL i abnorn1aHty in the printing F o] l0,1 1 j ng th c last 1inc a ppcars the X of N athani_el Lee's Princess of catch,ttord ~Marg/ CI eve ( r 6 89) rcqu ires cxplana .. On sig. D 1 rcctoi the ncA.-tp:agc.i the tJon before the author icy of th c variunt text of sig. recto appears again .in text c-an be detern1ined. In this quarto the snme typesetting but ,vi th a d ifl cr- the text of Act I ends on :,;ig~Cf recto" ent scttj ng of the running-title.. 0 n follo\vcd by Act II, scene 1, beginning sig. DI vcrsoi though a.g~in ,vith a dif- on sig+ Ct-verso ,vith -a dialogue bc- ferent l1.1nni n g-tjtle., the text of ct. t\vccn Taumon nnd J_,aJ\1arch. Half- verso do, vn through La Mn rch "s exit v.. ·a y d ff'iVnth is page La !i..iarch cxits,. is on c:e n1ore print cd .in t 1iC same type- and the text continues ,vith the fol~ sctting. The stage direction 'Enter lo\vin g pa.ssagc: N cn1ours, ~1argue rite.t re verses the previous order of the n:uncs but n1ay Ent er A·iar gu eri te, Nemours. he in the san1e type. Thereupon {Viar- Af arg. A\v:.-ly,you have co1nuin\1 to . gucrites long speech is otnittcd, and the opening lines helo,v the entrance [Tbe Vidam. are Nemours' '\' ou have heurd me .. " You have consp ir' d the Dea th of her you hate, printed from the san1e setting of type But teH n1e~Oh! confes~ .:ind l'H Joe- as on C4 verso. Tielolv this is printed give thee; the folio·wingnc,v pas:sagc~ Say it ,vas thin c, nay1- look not on tho A1nrg. I-Icar, hear hin1Heav'n; Vid«nt, Il y aU Extrcan1 s thou Art Fa] se, there- Th ~re j s Discour.se in Eyes, Cun~ent 1 f orc Le gon~, ]Jenialt For if I look upon thee in this Rage, At I u n dcrstoo d by looJ.:s! say it ,vas I shall do inischicf; speak not! but thine"! a\vay- Confess, and lay this Tempest with a [N cn10u r.s be c kens t be V"idmn \vord. t!Jcy stei1l off+ Not yet? vlh y then I '11leave it in Enter Tournon. despite 1~our, 1\1.ad:un!the Duke has taken 1 0 f thee and hhn1 I 11sell my Soul to yon at your ,vord! and jg gone ,vith J.-JcH, the Vida111.;I m-adc hold to over-he~r Ir iv· ornan c,an be ,v-onh the Devil's pa tt of your D iscoursr, bcca u.se I ha\.Te purchas~ tn ore · of his In fi d clity to tell you - After she h;ls.been blo\vn upon by i\1an; Betwixt one and ~vn in l~uxeJuburg 1~h::lt[ lllay tdl t1lCCius I sjnk {or evert Gar den h c has tt ppo inted some L~ - 1~11ouhast lJccnF~bc. dies- },l eu1. Yo LI ha n.~h car<l1nc 111ore th~n once This prose :speech concludes the page Affirn,, the Vidtm1 (if yo11ijl gi,.. c hi1n \vlth the catch,·vord 'A.frrrg.7 and on Dz k:nvc) recto th.c scene con tin u c.s norm a 11y \V"iH o\vn it to your 1,·acc+ ,vith the rest of the dialogue: Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume IV, Number 3 (Autumn 1950) ....._ ....__ 410 I-larvnrd Library Bulletin At arg. l1~urjcs and I-Iell! the thjrd, printing could not have been Tour. I-lnvc Patience for an hol1r, sin1u l ta ncous s j nc e D l recto and verso 1~nbring you to the p1ace••.. utilize Standing type fro 1n recto and verso. Some copies (~s I-Ia1-v-ardj Fo]ger, Hrnl'ever 1 the fact that the font of Cfrn:pin, and Ne·w·ben.J'-) both type changes in sheet D is significant, Icaves an cl a re therefore red und ant. for on this point hinges ,vhat 1.v-emay Some copies (ns Congress an <lC.:h i cago) ca l1 th c n1cchanica l m thcr than the cancel leaf D 1. Alrhough thjs proce- tex n1al reason for the plan n cd cancel- dure is l:"e.n:-ainly\'i'rong, since .h fo~- b.ti on of ]caf C-4. Since the .slcleton- lo,vs y verso "·ith D2 recto c1.ndthus f o rn1es used for sheets: H nnd C ,vere has Tournon -continuing the diulognc also cnlploycd to print sheet D .and ,vithout ever taking Nemnurs off, yet 5ubse(1uent sheets] ,ve arc dealing ,·vjth the second edition in 1697 reprints th~ se-rinti111printing, c?carly enough, but text in this f orn1. not ne cessarH y ,vi rh sc riatb n typeset- Ar first sight one n 1lgh t conj ectu re ting. 1~hc s1nallcr ty pc used in sheet]) that lea.f D 1 in part reprints: C-4 in or~ and thereaf tcr indicates a p] an to co n1- d er ti ia t C4] :-ind thus i\1nrgueri re's p res~a first edition ,vhich ,vas appar- s p eec h1 might be ca nce1ed ._ In fact,_ a cnt1y gojng lo take too 1nuch p:tpcr cancel is i11tendedfor C4 (those copies and pre5s,vork if continued jn the canceling DI are in error), but not for h1.rgcr type \Vi tit ,,~hich it Irn<l been any tcxtu al reason. This j~ ,vhat seem.~ srnrtcd.~ It ""ould scc1n, thcrcf 0:1-""C1 to h:.1vehnppened. Shcnts B :::.ndC con~ that n decision to cl1angc the type \V!lS rain 3 8 Jines of text measuring 179 111ad e ,v-I1ile one co .n1posi tor ,vas sti 11 ( 190) x Ir 9 mm.1 the large type n1c:ls- engaged \vith setting sheet C, snd that nring 94 nun. for t,;,.ventylines. ln ~ig. a second compositor begnn ,vhflt ,vas D2 and the .rest of the play the setting intended to be sig+ D 1 .recto ,,·kh the js 44 1incs to the page "\YJth a smaller line ',Hnrg. Fudes and Hell!t (nO\v type rn.el ~11ring S2 n1 n1. Th c sn bs-ri- found headjng Dz recto), csti1nated to n 1ted text on the lo,vcr ha]f of D I recto continue ,vithout a break Tournonjs bcgjnn1ng 'Aim·g. H enr1 h~ar hi1n prn~c speech "\\·hith should have ended 1 1 Ileav n js also in this 82 nunr type+ C4 verso ,vfrh c_ •• L11~·eu1b11rgGarden A 1th oug h certn in of t l 1c signs a re pre~- he lrns appointed son1e Ladies--\ cn t, ,ve are not dealing ,\·ith a pure Since the con1positor \vou}d not fin- case of a book set sj n1u l taneous ly in i'.\h :s:ig.Cf ver.so 11ntiJ the ~econd ,\~as t,,.·o sectJons.1 In the first place, the ,vcll along \,,jth the pages of sheet D, divjsion is too uncqua]; in the second, the discovery ·,N-asmade too 1a.te that the ty pc-page openings a re the s:anlcin there hn<l been a 1niscalcub.tion and enc h se c..:tion nnd the satne t,vo skel e- that the cornpositor of sheet C 1vou1d to n-f onncs ··wj th their runnin g-tl tlcs be unable to Jnclude nll of the text as.- carry through the .,vJ1ole hook; ::ind in signed to him. If, as "\Vouldbe non11a], l For "\'~rious :s.im uh-an-:.:ous 1y se Re:i;~of:.l• the inner fonne of sheet C ,vere sent tion phy (p.1arros~nd the ~\"1~ence f<?r ck~c1:- m111]ngthe f~ct~ .i.eernr ~Btbhogrnp~1leal. l'..,·.1- !! The play ~o Llt:hi u.cs ,~·itI 1 l~rL: l K, j ll~l denc:o i rorn the P .r1n tcr ~.sJ\1 e:,1s1uc, Studt e-J in ahout the ma~ 1rnum length desired -at t hL~ lJibliograp!Jyj ll ( 194~). 1 56-a 6z. date. Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume IV, Number 3 (Autumn 1950) Notes 411 to the press immediately f ollo\ving the the p rj n te r "\V~S. un ,vil 1in g to cnga ge co 1nposition of C4 1·ccto, p ossibl y the hinlsclf to this 'process is demonstrated discovery 11°asnot made until the coin- by the time-saving operation he positor c::une to set C4 verso~ by \Vhich d opted instead.