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Notes

 
[1]

The Muses Library; or a Series of English Poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II, ed. Elizabeth Cooper (London, for J. Wilcox et al., 1737), p. xvi.

[2]

Sir John Hawkins, The Life of Samuel Johnson (2nd ed., London, 1787), pp. 81-82.

[3]

Bodleian MSS., Montagu d. 2, fol. 62. This letter and two subsequent letters concerning the volume Nichols printed, with omissions, in his Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. VI (1812), Part I, pp. 172-73n.

[4]

The identity of these 1810 and 1811 "editions" has, it seems, not hitherto been pointed out.