"Though not a few of the poems in the present volume could not be included in anthologies intended for general circulation, I must yet be allowed to state that I have reprinted nothing that is offensively gross. There is a great deal of dirt — nasty worthless trash — in the miscellanies of the Restoration, and with this garbage I have not chosen to meddle."
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Arthur Henry Bullen
Arthur Henry Bullen, often known as A. H. Bullen; 9 February 1857 – 29 February 1920) was an English editor and publisher, a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century literature, founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press, and a poet.
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