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Excerpt from The Whole Works of William Browne, Vol. 1: Of Tavistock, and of the Inner Temple; Now First Collected and Edited, With a Memoir of the Poet, and Notes
In the edition of 1772 the original copies have not been followed in refpeét to the dif'tribution of the commendatory verfes. I have adhered to the old plan, and have left the thirteen panegyrics found in the author's two editions of and 1625 before the foconi book jufi as they fiand there. The motive for dif'turbing the arrangement at all is not particularly clear. It could have been wiihed, alfo, that in the edition of 1772 the publifher had not thrown the author's marginalia into the foot-notes, and mixed them with the Rev. W. Thomp fon's obfervations, in a manner which, at leaf't, was confufing, and in certain cafes was not unlikely to mi?ead readers. Yet, upon the whole, Davies's edition of Browne is by no means a contemptible performance, and the fame may be faid of his reproductions of Suckling and Carew.
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