Newly Furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall
dishes,
aptly sayeth
"To the Iuditious Reader,
"_Him that will buy this Booke_; thus in the commendation and use
thereof.
"Good Reader, many things hath beene written by many men, and the
over-cloying humor of this age hath so overburdened the world with
multiplicity of al kinds, that scarce there is one subject left upon
the head whereof a hundred have not trampled over: amongst which
impartial handling, it may bee possible that some one corner hath
escaped this scrutenous search, and beene raked over with a lighter
hand than other."
We feel the justice of this remark as applicable to modern poetry. Much
novelty cannot be expected. In submitting the following volume to the
public, we attempt neither to prejudice them in its favour, or
supplicate them in behalf of its faults.
The signature of _Bion_ distinguishes the pieces of R. SOUTHEY;
_Moschus_, R. LOVELL.
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