Mrs. DOROTHY SPREADBURY,

Inventrefs of the

OXFORD SAUSAGE.

THE

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HE Plan of the following Mifcellany may justly be confidered as entirely new. Our Design was to form a Collection of fuch fmall, but valuable, Poetical Pieces, written by Gentlemen of OXFORD, as never before appeared together; and which being hitherto published feparately, or, as it were, by Accident, would otherwife have been overlooked and forgotten, partly for want of Length, and partly from their Manner of Publication. Amongst thefe, are interfperfed feveral Pieces of

the greatest Merit, never before printed. This Stock of Materials, which All will allow to be highly feafoned, thus carefully felected, and happily blended, we have ventured, with fome Degree of Propriety, to present to the Public, under the Name of The OXFORD SAUSACE.

Our principal Aim, has been to collect Poems of Humour and Burlefque. And in Conformity to this Intention, our Cuts, for which the most able Mafters have been engaged, are engraven in the fame Style. On thefe Confiderations, our SAUSAGE, we prefume, will not only gratify the Palate, but, if the old and approved Proverb, LAUGH AND BE FAT, be true, will, at the fame Time, contribute to make our Readers Thrive. All fuch Perfons, therefore, as are grown thin, by too much Study, Fafting, and

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