Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language Alphabetically Arranged, Vol. 4 of 4: Which During the Last Fifty Years Have Come Under the Observation This etymological use of the verb to recant is not usual, though we have it in Spenser in a sort of double sense, Till he recanted had his wicked rhymes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.