TO
DUDLEY,
EARL OF HARROWBY,
VISCOUNT SANDON,
LORD PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL,
WHOSE GREAT TALENTS, AND EXALTED CHARACTER
HAVE OFTEN BEEN DISPLAYED IN PUBLICK LIFE,
THIS POEM,
AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF RESPECT, AND HONOUR,
IS DEDICATED
BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT,
THURLOW.
[_]
This poem is carried on from the Tempest of Shak-speare:
only, the name of Miranda is changed into
Angelica. Proteus is feigned to have fallen in love with
the daughter of Prospero: and the sea-maid, Celatis, to
be enamoured of Ferdinand. The States of Naples having
granted to him their consent of Angelica, as his wife,
he is returning to bring her home to Naples, when the
poem opens. The latter part of it may be considered to
be written in the style of a Masque.
October, 1814.
