# A Pindarick Ode on the Union. Written by Lew. Theobald, Gent.

**Slug:** `pindarick_ode_union_1707`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for T. C. and sold by J. Morphew, 1707 (imprint legible in OCR). FIRST edition - Theobald's earliest publication.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_a-pindarick-ode-on-the-u_theobald-mr-lewis_1707` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-pindarick-ode-on-the-u_theobald-mr-lewis_1707
  - catalogue title: A pindarick ode on the union. Written by Lew. Theobald, gent.  1707
  - date field: 1707; images/frames: 12; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40316213-42', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_a-pindarick-ode-on-the-u_theobald-mr-lewis_1707_djvu.txt`
  - note: reel IA40316213-42; 12 frames

## Cleaned text(s)
- `pindarick_ode_union_1707.clean.txt` - complete ode; 2,742 words; 91% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete.

## 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).
No other separately printed Pindaric odes by Theobald were found on archive.org/HathiTrust; the 1732 Epistle to Orrery (verse) was added instead.