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REYNELL, Printer, Broad-street, Golden-square-1818.

ESSAYS.

ΤΟ

MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESQ.

Forgive me, BURNEY, if to thee these late

And hasty products of a critic pen,

Thyself no common judge of books and men,
In feeling of thy worth I dedicate.

My verse was offered to an older friend;
The humbler prose has fallen to thy share:
Nor could I miss the occasion to declare,
What spoken in thy presence must offend-
That, set aside some few caprices wild,

Those humorous clouds that flit o'er brightest days,

In all my threadings of this worldly maze,

(And I have watched thee almost from a child), Free from self-seeking, envy, low design,

I have not found a whiter soul than thine.

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