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