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Excerpt from Reliquiae Antiquae, Vol. 2: Scraps From Ancient Manuscripts, Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language
Opportunity of thanking both the contributors who have em abled them to enrich the collection with many curious pieces which could not otherwise have been Obtained, and the sub scribers who have encouraged them to proceed. They feel confident that these two volumes of short miscellaneous docu ments will be found of use to future philologists, and to all who take an interest in the history of our language and literature. The publication was begun in the consciousness that many of the most valuable materials Of this description, illustrations of words, traits of manners, facts of different kinds, lay scattered among those Short scraps on the margins and spare leaves of manuscripts which had been neglected, chiefly because there was no previous publication in which they could be conveniently inserted. The present work has not been discontinued on account of dearth of materials, but because it was thought that a large work is often felt by the purchaser as an evil, and that if the design should be taken up again, it will have better success when published as a new series or as a new work.
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