Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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page 82 of 211 (38%)
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reporte of the death and martyrdome of
M. Campion Jesuite and Preiste, and M. Sherwin and M. Bryan Preistes, at Tiborne the first of December_ 1581, is this notice at the end:-- ``Good reader, pardon all faultes escaped in the printing and beare with the woorkmanship of a strainger.'' Many of Nicholas Breton's tracts were issued surreptitiously, and he protested that many pieces which he had never written were falsely ascribed to him. _The Bower of Delights_ was published without the author's sanction, and the printer (or publisher) Richard Jones made the following address ``to the Gentlemen Readers'' on the blunders which had been made in the book:-- ``Pardon mee (good Gentlemen) of my presumption, & protect me, I pray you,
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