Octavian Pulleyn.
Within the haunted, &c.] 9 theme] So spelt here; 'theam' elsewhere—a fresh pair of instances from the same book of the absurdity of keeping bad spelling for its own sake.
48 Octavian Pulleyn was probably the son of Octavian Pulleyn, warden of the Stationers' Company; he published Woodford's Paraphrase of the Psalms.
Commendatory Poems
The following spirited preface and a prefatory poem were printed only in the Poems and Songs of 1674; they are worth preserving here.
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