NON OMNIS

MORIAR

S.Wale del

C.Grignion Scalp.

These venerable antient Song-enditers
Soard many a pitch above our modern writers:
With rough majestic force they mov'd the heart,
And strength and nature måde amends for Art.

Row

OF

ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY.

CONSISTING OF

Old Heroic BALLADS, SONGS, and other
PIECES of our earlier POETS,

Together with fome few of later Date.

THE FOURTH EDITION.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

DURAT OPUS VATUM

LOND O N.

PRINTED BY JOHN NICHOLS,
FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON.

MDCCXCIV.

GRAD/BUHR PR

1181 P43 1794 v.l

OF OUR ANCIENT NOBILITY,

EMPLOYED THE PRINCELY FORTUNE, AND SUSTAINED THE ILLUSTRIOUS HONOURS, WHICH SHE DERIVED FROM THEM,

THROUGH HER WHOLE LIFE

WITH THE GREATEST DIGNITY,

GENEROSITY, AND SPIRIT;

AND WHO FOR HER MANY PUBLIC

AND PRIVATE VIRTUES

WILL EVER BE REMEMBERED

AS ONE OF THE FIRST CHARACTERS OF HER TIME,

THIS LITTLE WORK WAS

ORIGINALLY DEDICATED:

AND, AS IT SOMETIMES
AFFORDED HER

AMUSEMENT,

AND WAS HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED

BY HER INDULGENT

APPROBATION,

IT IS NOW,

WITH THE UTMOST REGARD,

RESPECT, AND GRATITUDE,

CONSECRATED

TO HER BELOVED AND HONOURED

MEMORY.