EDINBURGH: WILLIAM PATERSON
LONDON: HENRY SOTHERAN & CO.
MDCCCLXXIV.
PREFATORY NOTE.
It is necessary to explain that in the present edition of the Ship of Fools, with a view to both philological and bibliographical interests, the text, even to the punctuation, has been printed exactly as it stands in the earlier impression (Pynson's), the authenticity of which Barclay himself thus vouches for in a deprecatory apology at the end of his...
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