DR. PERCY AND THE POEMS OF THE EARL OF SURREY

I have the means of showing what Dr. Percy did with the poems of the Earl of Surrey, because I have a copy of the work now before me. It can hardly be said that he "prepared an edition" of those poems, as supposed by your correspondent "G." on the authority of Watts's *Bibliotheca Britannica*, but he made an exact reprint of the *Songes and Sonnettes written by the Right Honorable Lorde Henry Haward, late Earle of Surrey, and other*, which was printed *Apud Richardum Tottell. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum*. 1557. The Bishop of Dromere made no attempt at editing the work much beyond what…