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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Basse (1602-1653): Now for the First Time Collected and Edited With Introduction and Notes T he Pastoral: and Other Worker, which constitute the major portion of the volume. The collee tion and inclusion of the poet's earlier and miscellaneous poems is due to my suggestion. In regard to these latter, acknowledgment has already been made, in the Introdu&ion or the Notes, of the kindness of the Rev. T. F. Kirby, the librarian of Winchester College, and of Mr. A. G. Peskett, the librarian of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in furnishing me with transcripts from unique copies of certain works in their respective libraries; and I have only to add here my thanks to the Rev. G. H. Lambert, chaplain at Thame Park, for some inquiries kindly made at my request, and to Mr. A. H. Bullen for one or two useful suggestions by which I have profited. 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.