Note 14 — INTRODUCTION.
Reading edition
Warton, in the account of the Mirror for Magistrates, given in his History of English Poetry, Vol. III. at p. 216, has copied the title of the edition of 1559, then extracted Baldwin’s Dedication from that of 1563, as from the same. In another place he refers to the Induction as printed in 1559. But this confusion is still more exceeded by the following note at p. 220. “These lines in Collingbourne’s legend are remarkable, fol. cxliiii. a.
Like Pegasus a poet must have wynges, To flye to heaven, or where him liketh best; He must have knowledge of eternal thynges, Almightie Jove must harbor in his brest.”
The reference of roman capitals can only be to the edition of 1563, where the second line stands thus:
“To flye to heaven, thereto to feede and rest.”
The above alteration first appeared in 1571.