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Corrigenda for the Oxford Text Archive
Q1 *Love's Labour's Lost*
Compiled by Kenneth B. Steele
<ksteele@epas.utoronto.ca>
It seems a reasonable assumption that users of the OTA quarto and folio
texts of Shakespeare want access to the quarto and folio texts, free of
both accidental errors and the sophistication of modern editorial
emendations. The OTA texts are NOT free of such errors and
"corrections," however, as careful comparison of the Q1 LLL text with
a facsimile has revealed more than 150 errors.
This file attempts to list all corrections required to bring the Oxford
Text Archive text of Q1 *Love's Labour's Lost* into conformity with the
facsimile of the Bridgewater copy which appears in Michael J.B. Allen &
Kenneth Muir, eds. *Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto* (Los Angeles: U of
California P, 1981). It also considers readings and stop-press
corrections listed in the appendix to that volume, the Oxford Textual
Companion, and bibliographical articles by Paul Werstine and Ge . . .

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<T LLLQ><L 1><Y Q><P A2><C ><J :>+
<J *><I Love's Labours Lost - Q1>+
<I 1 1>+
<D Enter Ferdinand [K.]King of Nauar, Berowne,>
<L 2><D {Longauill, and Dumaine.}>
<L 3><S {Ferdinand.}>
<L 4>LEt Fame, that all hunt after in their lyues,
<L 5>Liue registred vpon our brazen Tombes,
<L 6>And then grace vs, in the disgrace of death:
<L 7>When spight of cormorant deuouring Time,
<L 8>Th#endeuour of this present breath may buy:
<L 9>That honour which shall bate his sythes keene edge,
<L 10>And make vs heires of all eternitie.
<L 11>Therefore braue Conquerours, for so you are,
<L 12>That warre agaynst your owne affections,
<L 13>And the hudge armie of the worldes desires.
<L 14>Our late edict shall strongly stand in force,
<L 15>#{Nauar} shall be the wonder of the worlde.
<L 16>Our Court shalbe a lytlle Achademe,
<L 17>Still and contemplatyue in lyuing #art.
<L 18>You three, {Berowne, Dumaine}, and {Longauill},
<L 19>Haue sworne for three yeeres tearme, to liue with me:
<L 20>My fellow Scholle . . .