Adorned with Curs, Engraved in a NEW TASTE, Tota, merum Sal. LUCR. iv. 1156. OXFORD: Printed for G. ROBINSON, in Pater-nofter-Row, and M.DCC.LXXVII. [Price Two Shillings, fewed.] TH HE Plan of the following Mifcellany may justly be confidered as entirely new. Our Defign 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 publifhed feparately, or, as it were, by Accident, would otherwise have been overlooked and forgotten, partly for want of Length, and partly from their Manner of Publication. Amongst thefe, are interfperfed feveral Pieces of A 3 359/1 .957 the 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 SAUSAGE. Our principal Aim, has been to collect Poems of Humour and Burlesque. 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 low i low Spirits, if they would improve their Conftitution, and mend their Habit, are hereby invited to partake of this cheap, delicious, and falutary Morfel. As to Readers of a more genial Complexion, and a more joyous Difpofition, we need not doubt of being favoured with their Company. In the mean Time it is declared, that we do not mean by our Title to exclude any particular Sect or Denomination of People. For Jews, as well as Chriftians, may feed on our SAUSAGE, without hurting their Confciences. In order to render the following Miscellany complete, no Pains have been fpared in procuring Pieces, and no Refources have been left unexplored. That nothing might efcape us, we have even examined the indefatigable Dr. Rawlinfon's voluminous Collection of Manu |