Transcriber's Notes:

Page 14: Double quotes inside double quotes amended to single quotes.

Page 26: Beween amended to between.

Page 43: Saint's legends sic.

Page 56: Insistance amended to insistence.

Page 82: Double quotes at the end of the Golding quote removed.

Page 87: Double quotes at the end of the Daniel quote removed.

Page 97: Comma added after amusing.

Page 109: Esop sic.

Page 142: Facund sic.

Page 144: Closing quotes added to the Denham quote.

Page 184: Bartholemew corrected to Bartholomew.

Note 41: Comma at the end of the footnote removed. The comma might indicate that additional information is missing from the footnote.

Note 329: Acccording sic.

The variant spellings of Bulloign, Bulloigne and Bullogne have been retained.

References in the notes to Ovid's Metamormorphosis are as per the original.