curious communications relating to Ludlow Castle, to the Earl of Bridgewater, and to Henry Lawes, obligingly tranfmitted to me by Mr. Dovafton of Ofweftry in Shropshire, and by the late Dr. Philip Hayes of Oxford. It remains, that I fhould request the candid reader to pardon inaccuracies, whether literary or typographical, from which the book may not be exempt an office of clemency which I hope he may be disposed to exercife, if the information, which I have diligently and extensively collected, fhould afford to him additional pleasure or amusement in the perufal of this enchanting Poem. |