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Poetical works of the late F. Sayers

to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor
  

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LINES ADDRESSED TO HUDSON GURNEY, Esq.

ON HIS GIVING ME A LEARNED LITTLE WORK, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, BOUND IN RED LEATHER.

Accept my best thanks for the little red book,
With delight and amaze on the pages I look;
And, if I can prevent it, it ne'er shall be said,
That the little red book was a book little read.