For games on the identity of EK, I recommend a recent piece by Allen
Carroll, I think either in Spenser Studies or scheduled to appear there,
which enters into the spirit of the game by playing out all the possible
puns on "eke," "ecce," and the like, with considerable ingenuity.
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P.S. E.K. was a gentleman, a scholar, and a fancier of epanorthosis,
or self-correction, about which Carol Kaske has written so well; the
trope that etymologically figures straightening oneself up, or out,
and regaining rectitude (by displacing bad stuff to others?). I used
to think of epanorthosis as the founding trope of the virtues of
Temperance and Holiness. And maybe I still do.
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a tock is more resonant than a tick
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