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Notes
"Another," for "a stronger" is not likely to be a correction rather than a change. The earlier version, "a stronger champion," refers to George Shelley and would, if let alone, elevate him over the master being commemorated, John Seddon.
"Commendatory Verses: The Rise of the Art of Puffing," Studies in Bibliography, XIX (1966), 4. A verse comment by the Elizabethan translator Richard Robinson quoted by Williams, p. 10, might be distorted into suggesting that MS copies of commendatory verses were circulated in advanced of publication: "I have been showne / Bookes that sell well, yet not for what's their own, / but for Commendators before them knowne." Unfortunately the statement clearly implies that the commendators' reputations, not their verses, were known ahead of time to the public.
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