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hompson'B edition has been aloveoly re-printed in America and lately in England ; bmu more complete text, baa^ on a collation Uearly and manuscfipt copies, was prepared in1872 by [he Jate Dr Groeart. The wortdone was impr-^ved upon by Mr G. A. Aicknin his Muses Library Edition, published in 1891,and lately reviaed. By the kindness of JvliG. A. Aitkeuj and of the publisher and owtwiof the copyright, Mr A. H, Bullen, I have beenkbic to base ray text on that of the MuseiLibrary. AIihoQgh I have omitted some of the feebleitlampooDB and ^omc of the grossest lineg, I haveCBdeavoured to give the present edition a valueof iCB own, by inserting aotne long pa,seage5 aodmany important new readings from manuacriaicquired by the British Museum siDceAitken prepared his text. Although I thinkhave been able to reetore hb Marvell's the pieceentitled " The King's Vows " pr " RoyalResolutions," it would be difficult to proveany eacire at all was written by the poet. SavM-ses, which neceasarily appeared aoonymoua!and circulated largely in manu&cript, were oftenattributed to wrong persons^ the traoscriberteither following common report, or else settingany plausible name before their copies.M^arvell, by reason of his reputation, is no doui and I I ece Iiutfl 'Uslfl BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE xli still credited with fleyeral pieces befonging toother men ; even if Tereione were found in hishandwriting, they might only bawe been satires,of which, like maay men of his age, he desiredto keep a copy. No edition can be consideredfinal, but were I preparing as complete a oneas poiisible, I abouM include the set of "In-Amictions to a Painter," attributed to Denham.Aubrey, who k new both Denham and Marvell, saysthat these verses were written by our author, andWtwd'a Btatement to the same eiFect ie moreprecise. The poem entitled " The RoyafManual," attributed to Marvell, was, in myapinioD, written io the middle of the eighteenthcentury, soon after the ap]>earaT]ce of Gray'n" Elegy." I may be wrong as lo the dale, butit ia not the work of Marvell. With regard to my notes, I have benefited by ^e work, done by Dr Groean and Mr C. A. ^itken, and have found much inforniation in the felionai DiiSionary of Biography, and the Ncnu
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