Note 5 — EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE DROLLERY: 1656.

For special reasons, the Editor felt it nearly impossible to avoid the omission of a few letters in one of the most objectionable of these pieces, the twelfth in order, of Choyce Drollery. He mentions this at once, because he holds to his confirmed opinion that in Reprints of scarce and valuable historical memorials no tampering with the original is permissible. (But see Appendix, Part IV. and pp. 230, 288.) He incurs blame from judicious antiquaries Miscellany Poems, Pt. 6, 1709). No Editor has any business to thus mutilate every printed copy.