Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Battle of Floddon Field: A Poem of the Sixteenth Century; With the Various Readings of the Different Copies; Historical Notes, a Glossary, and an Appendix Containing Ancient Poems and Historical Matter Relating to the Same Event
We must at the same time allow, that the state in which we are enabled to give the text, is not that of the original. The orthography of a poem calculated for such extensive circu lation among the lower orders of society, not doubt underwent successive renovations and it is to be feared that the text also passed through several improving hands before it reach ed the middle of the seventeenth century.
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