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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Skeleton, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notes, and Some Account of the Author and His Writings
Prompted by this remark, I commenced the pre sent edition, - perhaps with too much self-confi dence, and certainly without having duly estimated the difficulties which awaited me. After all the attention which I have given to the writings of Skelton, they still contain corruptions which defy my power of emendation, and passages which I am unable to illustrate; nor is it, therefore, without a feeling of reluctance that I now offer these vo lumes to the very limited class of readers for whom they are intended. In revising my Notes for press, I struck out a considerable portion of conjectures and explanations which I had origin ally hazarded, being unwilling to receive from any one that equivocal commendation which Joseph Scaliger bestowed on a literary labourer of old.
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