elegant and lamented writer", "indicate the simplicity, rather than the libertinism, of the age in which they were exhibited. The distinction between modesty of thought and decency, which resides in the expression, is a modern refinement; a compromise between chastity and seduction, which stipulates not the exclusion, but only the disguise of licentiousness; and may, perhaps, be a proof of a purer taste, but is no evidence of a very severe and rigid morality." JAMES HEYWOOD MARKLAND.

Temple, 1818.

7 Mr. G. Ellis. Vide Preface to Way's Fabliaux, xxxvi. edit. 1815.

C. Baldwin, Printer, New Bridge-street, London.

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