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VARIANTS.

THE following variants are based upon a collation of the reprints by Arber and Flügel, which are presumed to be literal transcripts of the editions printed in 1595 by Olney and Ponsonby respectively. How far these do actually represent the two earliest texts I am in no position to state, but the errors, if any, must be few and unimportant. Except for the rejection of his as the possessive sign of the noun, I have rarely ventured, in the construction of the text, to reject the authority of both the early copies. These instances will all be found recorded in their proper places, and are mostly confined to cases where the retention of the older forms would have occasioned a manifest transgression of grammatical concord, or where a form, like Pindarus, 41 23, would have constituted a noticeable exception.

It must be understood that no attempt has been made to note mere differences of spelling and punctuation. This would have been impracticable without greatly increasing the bulk of the volume, and would have served no useful purpose that could not be quite as readily served by consulting the reprints which I have used.

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