Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1810? E. Edwards edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON,
“Oh, Whittington, among thy tow’rs Pleas’d did my early Childhood stray, Bask’d on thy walls in sunny hours And pull’d thy moss, and pluck’d thy flow’rs, Full many a truant day.”
Poem of “Fitz-Gwarine.”
BY WILLIAM DAVIES, L.M.W.S. And Head-master of Carnarvon School.
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TO
R. POOLE,
Master of Malden School, Essex,
THIS HISTORY IS INSCRIBED,
By his sincere,
faithful,
and affectionate Friend,
THE AUTHOR.
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