If the addition was in verse, he might set it up as prose or misline it, placing perhaps too many or too few feet in a line and thus throwing out the whole arrangement of the verse.
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If the addition was in verse, he might set it up as prose or misline it, placing perhaps too many or too few feet in a line and thus throwing out the whole arrangement of the verse.
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The author apparently mislined his verse here, as both texts place the words at the end of l. 60 but correctly end l. 61 with 'weepe'
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Both compositors had some difficulty with lineation, but X mislined his copy only eight times whereas Y mislined his stint twenty-two times, often in more serious ways.
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