[Milton-L] No, that's not correct

[William Kolbrener]

Professor Shawcross has indeed taught a whole generation of Miltonists - 
and I am happy to count myself among them - the importance of being finicky!

John Shawcross wrote:
> Re Angelica's question, Harold's reply, and Angelica's reply: 
> You will find a facsimile of the 1655 title page in the Columbia 
> Edition, Volume 13, 
> The State Papers, p. 509: 
> SCRIPTUM / DOM. PROTECTORIS / /Reipublicæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hi- / 
> berniæ, /&c./ / /
> Ex consensu atque sententiâ / CONCILII SUI / EDITUM; / In quo hujus 
> Reipublicæ Causa 
> contra / HISPANOS / justa esse demonstratur.
>
> I don't know whether my italics and digraphs came through, but lines 
> 3-4 are in italics (except for the "&c."); if it says "ae"
> in lines 3-4 and 8, it should be the digraph; the final a in line 5 
> has a circumflex over it; and the capitals are of varying size.   
>
> Sorry to be finicky about this, but shouldn't we be?
> John
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