ADVERTISEMENT. THE world, I believe, will take fo little notice of me, that I need not take much of it. The criticks may fee by this poem, that I walk on foot, which probably tay save me from their envy. I fhould be forry to raise that paffion in men whom I am fo much obliged to, fince they allow me an honour hitherto only fhewn to better writers, That of denying me to be the author of my own works. Gentlemen, if there be any thing in this poem good enough to displease you, and if it be any advantage to you to afcribe it to fome perfon of greater merit; I fhall acquaint you, for your comfort, that, among many other obligations, I owe feveral hints of it to Dr. Swift. And, if you will fo far continue your favour as to write against it, I beg you to oblige me in accepting the following motto: 66 -- Non tu, in triviis, indocte, folebas "Stridenti, miferum, flipulâ, difperdere carmen ?" TRIVIA. |
