Prolusions, Or Select Pieces of Antient Poetry: Compil'd With Great Care From Their Several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publick as Specimens of the Integrity That Should Be Found in the Editions of Worthy Authors (Classic Reprint)

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Tbornas Norton, jointl A very at lib has been taken with this ipoem by the gditor, focrizhich it is roper he lhould make fome apology: what he has done is nothing lefs than the throwing out of four entire (inns, and parcel of a fifth; his reason. For that they were fo weak, and dif c'd with other blemilhes, that he fear'd they wo d difcourage the reader from perusal of what remains, and repossefs him againll the whole the conneétion 1s not de ftroy'd by the omifiion; and who {hall think it a defeet may easily cure it from fome old edition, which are nothing fcarce. The poem that follows will {land in dan er of running into a like difgrace with the reader, y reason of that indelicacy which is but too visible in man parts of it, unlefs he be firlt waru'd that it was the general vice of the au thor's time, and (ball from that confideration be kindly indue'd to make fome allowances It is like wise a polthumous work, (appearing firfi in that edition which is at the head of those the editor has confulted) as is evident, among other circumllances, from the following verfes, parcel of a colleftion which preceed the poem; Eneomiarn of tbe 171° e This perfeft creature, to e eaflern ufe, liv'd, whillt a wife, retir'd from common lhow; not that her lover fear'd the leali abufe, but, with the wisell, knew it fitter fo fince, fall'n a widow, and a zealous one.

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