Lucasta

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Lovelace''s Lucasta was included by the late S. Wo Singer, Esq., in his series of Early English Poets but that gentleman, besides striking out certain passages, which he, somewhat unaccountably and inconsistently, regarded as indelicate, omitted a good deal of preliminary matter in the form of commendatory verses which, though possibly of small worth, were necessary to render the book complete; it is possible, that Mr. Singer made use of a copy of I/ucasta which was deficient at the commencement. It may not be generally known that, independently of its imperfections in other respects, Mr. Singer''s reprint abounds with the grossest blunders.