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PREFACE.
editions. And so, though much remains obscure, I trust that I have provided a more intelligible version of the Poems than any that has yet appeared.
It should be understood that a reading attributed to any one of the printed editions in the footnotes is retained in the later editions, unless it is otherwise stated.
My thanks are due for various help to Dr. Grosart, to Mr. J. T. Brown of Edinburgh, and to Mr. A. H. Bullen. Dr. Nicholson’s notes contain abundant evidence of the similar debt which he owed to Mr. J. M. Thomson of Edinburgh.
