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Notes
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This is a specific application of the general principles stated by J. B. Leishman, "'You Meaner beauties of the night,' A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification," The Library, 4th ser., XXVI (1945), 99-121. Mr. Leishman's argument is fully borne out by the manuscript versions of Ayton's poems and could be further substantiated by studies of other poems of the period. What is said here can be taken to be in specific disagreement with the conclusions of Edwin Wolf, "'If shadows be a pictures excellence,': an experiment in critical bibliography," PMLA, LXIII (1948), 831-857.
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