Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> writes: > On 23/09/2021 03:18, Juan Manuel Macías wrote: >> Max Nikulin writes: >> >>> However there is namely "memory" in the "1609 Quarto", see e.g. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_1 Web pages with the same variant >>> as in the Org manual do not mention the source (particular edition). I >>> hope, I just do not know what is considered as the canonical variant >>> for not so old language. >> >> I am not an expert on Shakespeare's poetry either, but as the author of >> the patch where Sonnet 1 is included, I can say that 'memeory' is a typo >> (sorry). At least I didn't use that word intentionally. I don't know if >> there is any textual variant 'memeory', but in my case it is nothing >> more than a simple typo :-). > > Then "mught" should be another typo. > > "His tender heire might beare his memory:" - 1609 Quatro
I think "Quatro" is another typo and should be "Quarto" (unless there is a typo in the date and it is a line from little-know song by Suzi ...) > "His tender heir might bear his memory:" - Wikipedia citing Shakespeare, > William. Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Bloomsbury Arden > 2010. p. 113 ISBN 9781408017975 > > "His tender heir mught bear his memeory:" - some web pages and Org manual. > > -- This signature is currently under construction.
