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Down to the Restoration, it is to be wished that every poet, however unworthy of the name, should be preferred. In the worst volume of elder date the historian may find something to assist or direct his enquiries; the antiquary something to elucidate what requires illustration; the philologist something to insert in the margin of his dictionary.—Southey, Pref. to Sp. of L. E. P.
