all the three modern editions are content still to read,
When my own thoughts I there neglected find
—a strange reason for being enamoured. Some difficult and perhaps corrupt lines still remain.]
[16] In forming this Appendix it was not my intention to remove these poems dogmatically from under the aegis of Donne's name. I wished rather to separate them from those which are indubitably his and facilitate comparison. Further evidence may show that I have erred as to one or other. This letter is the only one about which I feel any doubt myself. I have taken as much trouble with their text as with the rest of the poems.
[17] H40 has no ascription. In the poem just discussed the ascription made correctly, at least intelligibly, in RP31, was transposed in H40. This must be the later collection. See II. p. [cxiv].
[18] Absence is printed, again unsigned, in Wit Restored in severall Select Poems not formerly published. (1658.)