SATIRES, EPISTLES, AND ART of POETRY, Done into ENGLISH, WITH NOTES. By S. DUNSTER, D. D. PREBENDARY of SARV M. Sermoni propiora. Lib. I. Sat. IV. ✯. 42. The FOURTH EDITION, Corrected. LONDON: Fq Printed by T. W. for W.MEARS, F. CLAY, and M. DCC.XXIX. OTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE Thomas, Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield, In the County Palatine of Chester ; Lord High Chancellor of GREAT-BRITAIN; And One of His Majesty's moft Honourable Privy-Council. My Lord, ADI known a greater Person than your Lordship, You had not been troubled with this Ad drefs; and had I not believ'd, A 2 that that the following Performance did, in fome Measure, merit your Acceptance, You had been freed from it. IT is none of the leaft of Your diftinguishing Qualities, that those who have endeavour'd to make themselves ufeful to the World by their Studies, are fure of Your Protection: The Generous DORSET is now no more, and it is not long fince the Celebrated HALLIFAX was taken from us; and fuch is our prefent Situation, that tho' the CLASSICKS may be faid to be the Treasures of Knowledge, and as they teach us to think well, are moft proper to make a Polite and Finish'd Gentleman (a Character which all Men are ambitious of attaining;) yet both They, and Those who employ Their Time in making them intelligible, are equally neglected. BUT |