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Excerpt from Ballads and Songs: A New Edition, With Notes and Illustrations, and a Memoir of the Author
Being desirous of making some corrections in an edition of Mallet 's ballad? Of Edwin and Emma, which I published eight years ago, I have been induced to reprint it, and add to my former publication the author's more celebrated ballad of Wil liam and Margaret, and some of his Songs. After much inquiry and research; I have been enabled, in the following Memoir of Mallet, to correct some of the statements of his former bio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
