211 I am]
I'm; grammatical changes, sometimes of
doubtful
correctness: e.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
1. 124 he retains 'petty' from 1716, although he says: 'The edit.
of 1640, as I think more justly,--_Some_ pretty _principality_.'
This reverence for the 1716 text is inexplicable. In the matter of
capitalization Whalley forsakes his model, and he makes emendations
of his own with considerable freedom. He still further modernizes the
spelling; he spells out elided words: e. g., 1. 3. 15 H' has] he has;
makes new elisions: e. g., 1. 6. 143 Yo' are] You're; 1. 6.
211 I am]
I'm; grammatical changes, sometimes of
doubtful
correctness: e.
g.,
1. 3. 21 I'le] I'd; morphological changes: e. g., 1. 6. 121 To scape]
T'escape; metrical changes by insertions: e. g., 1. 1. 48 'to'; 4. 7.
38 'but now'; changes of wording: e. g.
