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To JOHN HEATHCOAT, Esq. M. P.
  

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To JOHN HEATHCOAT, Esq. M. P.

Who, in the midst of the highest pursuits, scientific and political, and the most ingenious and extensive mechanical combinations, does not disdain to look with an enlarged and liberal view on those arts, purely imaginative, which, useless perhaps, as roses in a garden, to the mere purposes of existence, yet serve, like those sweet flowers, to gladden and embellish the world in which we dwell,
This Lyrical Drama Is very respectfully inscribed, By THE AUHOR.