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Editions of the book were printed from imperfect manuscripts several times in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but no edition has any final value until we come to that of S.W. Singer, who reprinted it, from what is fairly established to have been the author's manuscript, in 1815. The present edition follows that of Singer who slightly modernized the archaic orthography of the original manuscript, and made uniform its irregularities, though certain of the corrections made from the manuscript by Mr. F.S. Ellis, who edited it for the Kelmscott Press Edition in 1893, and for the Temple Classics Edition in 1899, have been embodied in it. 5