BRITISH MUSE,

OR
A Collection of THOUGHTS
Moral, Natural, and Sublime,

OF OUR

ENGLISH POET'S;

Who flourished in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.,
With several curious TOPICKS, and beautiful

PASSAGES, never before extracted, from
SHAKESPEAR, JOHNSON, · BEAUMONT,

FLETCHER, and above a Hundred more.
The Whole digested Alphabetically under their

respective Heads, according to the Order of
Time in which they wrote ; to shew the
gradual IMPROVEMENTS of our Poetry and
Language.

VOL. III.

BY: THOMAS HATIVIRD, Gent.
With an Historical and Critical Review of This, and
all the COLLECTIONS of this kind hitherto published.

L O N D
Printed for F. COGAN, at the Middle Temple Gate*
in Fleet ftreet, and J. Nourse, at the Lamb withose

Temple-Bar.

M. DCC. XXXyIdä.

T is an honour to the British Nation, that it has, from time to time, produced so

many

illustrious Patrons of the British Muse;

but,

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