# Decius and Paulina, a masque, to which are added, the other musical entertainments, as perform'd at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, in the dramatic opera of Circe. Written by Mr. Theobald, and set to musick by Mr. Galliard

**Slug:** `decius_and_paulina_1719`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for Jonas Brown, 1719 (per ESTC). FIRST edition (the masque was performed in 1718 within Circe).

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_decius-and-paulina-a-ma_theobald-mr_1719` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_decius-and-paulina-a-ma_theobald-mr_1719
  - catalogue title: Decius and Paulina, a masque, to which are added, the other musical entertainments, as perform'd, at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, in the dramatic opera of Circe. Written by Mr. Theobald, and set to musick by Mr. Galliard.  1719
  - date field: 1719; images/frames: 29; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313615-83', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_decius-and-paulina-a-ma_theobald-mr_1719_djvu.txt`
  - note: reel IA40313615-83; 29 frames

## Cleaned text(s)
- `decius_and_paulina_1719.clean.txt` - c. 1,650 words; 1,653 words; 90% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete but very noisy microfilm (about half the OCR lines were junk and removed).

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).