Prolusions; or, select Pieces of antient Poetry,--compil'd with great
Care from their several Originals, and offer'd to the Publick as
Specimens of the Integrity that should be found in the Editions of
worthy Authors,--in three Parts; containing, I. The notbrowne Mayde;
Master Sackvile's Induction; and, Overbury's Wife: II. Edward the third,
a Play, thought to be writ by Shakespeare: III. Those excellent didactic
Poems, intitl'd--Nosce teipsum, written by Sir John Davis; with a
Preface.
Impius hæc tam culta novalia miles habebit?
Barbarus has segetes?
Virg. Ecl. I.
_London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand_. 1760. [Colophon]
_From the Press of Dryden Leach, in Crane-court, Fleet-street. Oct.
6^th._ 1759.
8^o. (7 × 4-1/2). S. 39.
Dedication to Lord Willoughby of Parham, subscribed "the Editor"
(_i.e._ Edward Capell).