LENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

F. B.

THE HON. EDWARD FOLEY,

ΤΟ

OF

NEW GROVE,
May 1, 1791.

Momas 1791

STOKE EDITH, HEREFORDSHIRE,

THIS EDITION

OF

HIS COUNTRYMAN's POEM,

IS,

WITH THE MOST SINCERE REGARD,

INSCRIBED;

IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THAT FRIENDSHIP,

WITH WHICH HE HAS LONG HONORED

HIS MOST TRULY OBLIGED,

AND VERY FAITHFUL SERVANT,

CHARLES DUNSTER.

1

It has been frequently

obferved that a confiderable part of the works of our English Poets will in another century become in a great measure unintelligible, for want of being accompanied with Notes; or at leaft that they will cease to be read with pleasure, when so many of their allusions cease to be understood. Some of

our greater English Classics have. been fecured from fuch a fate, and

b

are

are handed down to us, protected by the elucidations of men of literature. Whether all the works of the numerous Authors, who have contri

buted to form the great body of English Poetry, merit fo much attention may well be questioned: but it is certain that there are many of them which highly deferve, and greatly require it. Among these the most faftidious Critic will scarcely hesitate to place English Georgic, which, at the distance of more than four Score years from its original publication, is first offered to the World illus

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