fox: my left eye.  "ceci n'est pas une fox." (Default)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2011-05-18 11:16 am

(2) it is!

Thanks to [personal profile] angevin for suggesting I look in EEBO - my previous researches had only found me sources back to about the turn of the 20th century, which wasn't helping w/r/t Herbert's original spelling etc. But lookie!



So, as George intended, I will use the long s and I will capitalize nothing - hurrah! ... And I will probably abandon my semicolons and em-dashes. That's okay. But I will still substitute modern "than", because apparently that's where I draw the line.
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[personal profile] alpheratz 2011-05-18 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a really beautiful poem, and I think it'll look gorgeous.