The very incomplete and inaccurate volume of 1736, and the reprint of it in Chalmers’s _English Poets_,[1] 1810, have hitherto been the only editions of Skelton accessible to the general reader. In 1814, the Quarterly Reviewer,—after censuring Chalmers for having merely reprinted the volume of 1736, with all its errors, and without the addition of those other pieces by Skelton which were known to be extant,—observed, that “an editor who should be competent to the task could not more worthily employ himself than by giving a good and complete edition of his works.”[2] Prompted by this remark, I commenced the present edition,—perhaps with too much self-confidence, and certainly without having …
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