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Title: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

Author: Robert Herrick

Release Date: August 28, 2007 [EBook #22421]

Language: English

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ROBERT HERRICK

THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE
NUMBERS: EDITED BY
ALFRED POLLARD
WITH A PREFACE BY
A. C. SWINBURNE

VOL. I.

_REVISED EDITION_

[Illustration]

LONDON: NEW YORK:
LAWRENCE & BULLEN, LTD., CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS,
16 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C. 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE
1898. 1898.

Transcriber's Note

Original spelling and punctuation has been retained.

Asterisks and daggers have been used to highlight sections. In this
version of the text, daggers have been rendered as +.

Greek words have been transliterated and shown between {braces}.

The oe ligature is shown by [oe], whilst ^ indicates 'superscript'.

Obvious typesetting errors have been corrected without note, however
additional corrections have been recorded in the Transcriber's
Endnotes at the end of each volume.

EDITOR'S NOTE.

In this edition of Herrick quotation is for the first time facilitated
by the poems being numbered according to their order in the original
edition. This numbering has rendered it possible to print those
Epigrams, which successive editors have joined in deploring, in a
detachable Appendix, their place in the original being indicated by the
numeration. It remains to be added that the footnotes in this edition
are intended to explain, as unobtrusively as possible, difficulties of
phrase or allusion which might conceivably hinder the understanding of
Herrick's meaning. In the longer Note