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Transcriber's Notes:
This e-text uses the Latin-1 ISO 8859-1 character set. The following
conventions are used to represent non-Latin-1 characters used in the
original:
[=x] represents letter 'x' with macron.
[)x] represents letter 'x' with breve.
[gh] represents yogh.
[oe] represents oe ligature.
[^] represents a 'pause' mark in poetry.
^{x} represents the letter 'x' superscripted.
The following Latin-1 characters which may be unfamiliar are used in
this e-text:
Þ, þ - upper and lower case thorn.
Ð, ð - upper and lower case eth.
Footnotes have been numbered sequentially and moved to the end of each
chapter.
Minor corrections to punctuation and capitalisation have been made
without note. Variant spelling, especially in Anglo-Saxon and middle
English poems, is as per the original. The following corrections to
typographical errors have been made:
p.129: "I hope to get safely out of the turmoil" (had "... safety ...")
p.401: "It cannot be said, however," (Had "In ...")
p.457: "Lotos-Eaters" (Index entry, had "Lotus-Eaters")
ENGLISH VERSE
_SPECIMENS ILLUSTRATING ITS PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY_