I attach a patch with Shakespeare's sonnet completely fixed: the poem is replaced by the version included in Wikipedia (Shakespeare, William. Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Bloomsbury Arden 2010. p. 113). I also removed a spurious phrase that I put in that patch (Org-News). Best regards, Juan Manuel Loris Bennett writes: > Max Nikulin 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. >> >>