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The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich

CORRECTIONS.

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Page 36, verse 11, for ken read hen.

50, ” 7, dele a.

80, ” 10, for consider read consider’d.

94, note, for brought read bought.

100, ” for Guynes read Luyne.

119, line 7, for Nescis read Nescio.

137, verses 4 and 5. It should have been observed, that the Prince and Buckingham on their journey wore false beards for disguises, and assumed the names of Jack and Tom Smith.

144. The two first lines of this beautiful poem are here printed as they are found in the editions of 1647 and 1672; but they stand much better in Bishop King’s Poems, page 51, edit. 1657:

Let no profane ignoble foot tread neer This hallow’d peece of earth, Dorset lies here.

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