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Textual Introductions and Apparatuses for Individual Holy Sonnets (The Textual Introductions and Apparatuses presented here are arranged alpha.. betically by Donne Variorum short forms.) HSBatter Textual Introduction As is shown on Figure 2 in the General Textual Introduction (p. lxii), HSBatter is the sixteenth item in NY3'S collection of "Holy Sonnets," the fourth of the re.. placement sonnets that NY3 appends to its replication of Group Ill's earlier sequence of "Diuine Meditations."I In the restructuring that gives rise to the subsequent Group..1/11 arrangement, however, the poem moves to the tenth position in the sequence and appears there in its first print appearance in A. In B, when the four discarded Group..III sonnets are recovered from H6 and reinstalled in the sequence, HSWhat is relocated to fourteenth place and remains so positioned in all subsequent editions save those of Alford (L), who reproduces the 1633 sequence; Lowell (M), who combines the Holy Sonnets with Corona in a continuously numbered series; Gardner (U), who prints the 1633 sequence; and Shawcross (Z), who essentially follows Gardner (see Figure 6 on p. lxxvi). Manifesting no substantive variation within the body of seventeenth...century artifacts other than a handful of isolated copyists' blunders, HSBatter is apparently the sole poem among the replacement sonnets that Donne never felt the need to revise. Among the Group...I manuscripts B32 misrecords "you [for the correct your] Enemye" in line 10, and C2-the usual setting text for A-evinces a pair of misreadings: "Better [for Batter] my Hart" in line I and the plural "Enemyes" (for "Enemye") in line 10. Within the later Group II, however, only a single sport ap'" lAs is shown on Figure 3 (p. lxiv) and noted in the General Textual Introduction (p. lxiii), yl's "Other Meditations"-of which HSBatter is the fourth-were obtained froln a Group~II source at some point after the original collection was entered into the artifact. 3 1 Textual Introductions and Apparatuses for Individual Holy Sonnets (The Textual Introductions and Apparatuses presented here are arranged alphabetically by Donne Variorum short forms.) HSBatter Textual Introduction As is shown on Figure 2 in the General Textual Introduction (p. lxii), HSBatter is the sixteenth item in NY3'S collection of "Holy Sonnets," the fourth of the replacement sonnets that NY3 appends to its replication of Group Ill's earlier sequence of "Diuine Meditations." I In the restructuring that gives rise to the subsequent Group-IIII arrangement, however, the poem moves to the tenth position in the sequence and appears there in its first print appearance in A. In B, when the four discarded Group-III sonnets are recovered from H6 and reinstalled in the sequence, HSWhat is relocated to fourteenth place and remains so positioned in all subsequent editions save those of Alford (L), who reproduces the 1633 sequence; Lowell (M), who combines the Holy Sonnets with Corona in a continuously numbered series; Gardner (U), who prints the 1633 sequence; and Shawcross (Z), who essentially follows Gardner (see Figure 6 on p. lxxvi). Manifesting no substantive variation within the body of seventeenth-century artifacts other than a handful of isolated copyists' blunders, HSBatter is apparently the sole poem among the replacement sonnets that Donne never felt the need to revise. Among the Group-I manuscripts B32 misrecords "you [for the correct your] Enemye" in line 10, and C2-the usual setting text for A-evinces a pair of misreadings: "Better [for Batter] my Hart" in line 1 and the plural "Enemyes" (for "Enemye") in line 10. Within the later Group II, however, only a single sport ap- 'As is shown on Figure 3 (p. lxiv) and noted in the General Textual Introduction (p. lxiii), y"s "Other Meditations"-of which HSBatter is the fourth-were ohtained from a Group-II source at some point after the original collection was entered into the artifact. 3 1 ...

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