THE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT-THOUGHTS. IN FOUR VOLUMES. REVISED AND CORRECTED BY HIMSELF.. VOL. IV. DUBLIN: Printed for A. EwING, W. SMITH, P. WILSON, M,DCC,LXIV. THE CENTAUR NOT FABULOUS. IN Six LETTERS to a FRIEND, ON THE LIFE in VOGUE. The FIFTH EDITION, Corrected. Doth be not Speak parables? VOL. IV. Ezek. DUBLIN: PRINTED FOR G. AND A. EWING, W. SMITH AND SON, P. WILSON, J. EXSHAW, AND E. WATTS. M.DCC.LXIV. LADY * MADAM, YOU OUR Ladyfhip's character is fo well character, known, that the public would blame me, if I prefented not these papers to You, who can fo readily put them into the hands of thofe who want them moft. ; You will, probably, afk, why The CENTAUR is prefix'd as a title to them. The men of pleasure, the licentious, and profligate, are the fubject of these letters and in fuch, as in the fabled Centaur, the brute runs away with the man: therefore I call them Centaurs. And farther, I call them Centaurs not fabulous, because by their fcarce half-human conduct, and character, that enigmatical, and purely ideal figure of the antients, is not unriddled only, but realized, A 2 Your |