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    The Bride
    The Bride
    The Bride
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    The Bride

    By Alfred Claghorn Potter and Samuel Rowlands

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Bride - Alfred Claghorn Potter

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bride, by Samuel Rowlands

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Bride

      Author: Samuel Rowlands

      Posting Date: October 20, 2012 [EBook #8189] Release Date: May, 2005 First Posted: June 29, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRIDE ***

      Produced by David Starner, Phil Petersen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      Editorial note: Long s's have been turned into s's, and the occasional use of a macron over a vowel to express a following n or m has been replaced with the following n or m. Otherwise, the spelling is as in the original edition of 1617, as difficult and inconsistent as it may be.

      THE BRIDE

      By Samuel Rowlands

      With an Introductory Note by Alfred Claghorn Potter

      Introductory Note

      When the complete works of Samuel Rowlands were issued by the Hunterian Club in 1872-1880, in an edition of two hundred and ten copies, the Editor was obliged to omit from the collection the poem entitled The Bride. No copy of this tract was supposed to be extant. Twenty years later, in the article on Rowlands in the Dictionary of National Biography, Mr. Sidney Lee also names this poem as one of the author's lost works. All that was known of it was the entry in the Stationers' Register: [Footnote: Arber's Transcript, vol. iii. p. 609.]

         "22 [degrees] Maij 1617

      "Master Pauier. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes

       of master TAUERNOR and both the wardens, A Poeme

       intituled The Bride, written by SAMUELL ROWLANDE vj'd."

      While all of Rowlands's works are classed by bibliographers as rare, this one seemed to have disappeared entirely. No copy was to be found in any of the large libraries or private collections, nor was there any record of its sale.

      Last spring a copy was discovered in the catalogue of a bookseller in a small German town, and was secured for the Harvard College Library, being purchased from the Child Memorial Fund. The copy is perfect, except that the inner corner at the top of the second and third leaves has been torn off, with the loss of parts of two words, which have been supplied in manuscript. From this copy the present reprint is made. As in the Hunterian Club edition of Rowlands's Works, to which this may be considered a supplement, the reprint is exact. The general makeup of the book as to style and size of type has been followed as closely as possible; and the text has been reproduced page for page and word for word. The misprints, which are unusually numerous, even for a book of this period, have been left uncorrected. The title-page and the two head-pieces

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