Etymology is
sometimes
indicated by an apostrophe,
not always correctly: e.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
g., 1. 1. 98, 101; the spelling is
modernized: e. g., 1. 1. 140 Tiborne] Tyburn; and the punctuation is
improved. Sometimes a word undergoes a considerable morphological
change: e. g., 1. 1. 67 Belins-gate] Billings-gate; 1. 6. 172, 175
venter] venture.
Etymology is
sometimes
indicated by an apostrophe,
not always correctly: e.
g., 2. 6. 75 salts] 'salts. Several changes
are uniform throughout the edition, and have been followed by all
later editors. The chief of these are: inough] enough; tother]
t'other; coozen] cozen; ha's] has; then] than; 'hem] 'em (except G
sometimes); injoy] enjoy. Several changes of wording occur: e.g., 2.
1. 53 an] my; etc.
1716. The edition of 1716 is a bookseller's reprint of 1692. It
follows that edition in the capitalization of nouns, the breaking up
of the lines, and usually in the punctuation. In 2.
