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Fourth edition, ‘cleared’ of some ‘imperfections, which disgraced it in former editions’, particularly the first (1788, see previous item), which had been sent to the printer before the poem was finished. This is the only edition of Hurdis’s poem to be printed by the poet himself in his native village of Bishopstone, where he had installed a press at his mother’s house to print his lectures (he was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1793). Jackson, p. 223; Johnson, 474.