# The Rape of Proserpine: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Theobald. And set to musick by Mr. Galliard

**Slug:** `rape_of_proserpine_1727`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for T. Wood, 1727 (per ESTC). FIRST edition.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_the-rape-of-proserpine-_theobald-mr-lewis_1727` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-rape-of-proserpine-_theobald-mr-lewis_1727
  - catalogue title: The rape of Proserpine: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Theobald. And set to musick by Mr. Galliard.  1727
  - date field: 1727; images/frames: 26; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313307-78', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_the-rape-of-proserpine-_theobald-mr-lewis_1727_djvu.txt`
  - note: reel IA40313307-78; 26 frames

## Cleaned text(s)
- `rape_of_proserpine_1727.clean.txt` - c. 2,900 words; 2,910 words; 93% 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).
1731 edition also on archive.org (bim_eighteenth-century_the-rape-of-proserpine-_theobald-mr-lewis_1731).