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Excerpt from Lydgate and Burgh's Secrees of Old Philisoffres: A Version of the Secreta Secretorum
I have endeavoured in the following pages to give some account of the Secreta Secretaram and its history, to summarise what is known of the authors of this translation, and, though relieved of much of the work which would otherwise have fallen upon me by the work of another editor in this series (dr. Schick), to add some remarks on the language and peculiaiities of the poem.
The text printed is that of Sloane 2464. It is the fullest and the earliest copy we possess. N o emendation 18 made without the authority of the other mss., and these are careqy noted.
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