Cambridge, Oct. 28. 1850.
_George Wither the Poet, A Printer._--In the "_Premonition_ to the Reader"
prefixed to George Wither's _Britain's Remembrancer_, 12mo. 1628, the
author acquaints us with some circumstances relative to his work which are
not generally known. While craving some apology for his writing, Wither
observes:
"It is above two years since I laboured to get this booke printed, and
it hath cost me more money, more pains, and much more time to publish
it, than to compose it, for I was faine to imprint every sheet thereof
_with my owne hand_, because I could not get allowance to doe it
publikely."