"Dan Chaucer (well of English undefiled)"
_in Spenser's_ Faerie Queene, _b. iv. canto ii. stanza 32_.
B. B. _is referred to Chapter IV. of Ferriar's_ Illustrations of Sterne, _2
vols., 1812, for some notice of Sterne's obligations to Burton's_ Anatomy
of Melancholy.
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albumenized paper._
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