Editorial Principles

Transcriptions have been made along quasi-diplomatic lines, with the following exceptions.

Turned type has been corrected.

Metrical lines have been restored without any hyphenation where lines have been broken in the original sources

The early-modern use of two 'v's has been mapped onto a modern 'w' character. French acute accents have not been transcribed. Ligatures have not been retained. Roman (or 'whiteletter') characters used in a predominantly blackletter setting are rendered in italic, as are blackletter characters in a predominantly Roman setting. Italic in a Roman typeface has been preserved. The long and short forms of 's' have been modernised.