Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects Occasionally Composed By An Eminent Author. Collected and Published by Sergeant-Major P. F. [i.e. James Howell] |
To the Critical Reader.
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To the Critical Reader.
If Satyres here you find, think it not strange;'Tis proper Satyres in the Woods should range:
And for free Speech, why may not Verse or Prose
Sit under Trees as safely as the Rose?
Yet here is nothing, though a Grand Inquest
You should Empannel, but may bide the Test:
For Petty Juries, let the Reader know,
Composures of this kind stoop not so low.
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