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Excerpt from Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics, Vol. 4: Edited With Notes TO the annotator of a school or college edition of the poets the fear must often present itself that he may unconsciously be guilty of drawing away the attention of his readers from the text to his notes. In such a case he must feel that, if it should ever be his fortune to penetrate to the Elysian fields, he Will receive but a chilling welcome from the bards of Passion and of Mirth there reposing in soft ease. Not for him an invitation to join their company, Pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac Fore casting, then, the reception of that day, he must ask himself from time to time what extenuating plea he is prepared to urge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.