1507150120 MISCELLANIES, Confisting of ORIGINAL POEMS AND TRANSLATION S. By the beft Hands. Publish'd by Mr. STE E LE. LONDON: Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shake- то Mr. CONGREVE SIR, M Y Name, as Publisher of the following Mifcellanies, I am fenfi ble, is but a flight Recommendation of them to the Publick; but the Town's Opinion of A 3 them them will be raised, when it fees them-addrefs'd to Mr. Congreve. If the Patron is but known to have a Tafte for what is prefented to him, it gives an hopeful Idea of the Work; how much more, when He is an acknowledg'd Master of the Art He is defired to Favour? Your just Success in the various Parts of Poetry, will make Your Approbation of the following Sheets a Favour to many Ingenious Gentlemen, whofe Modesty wants the Sanction of such an Authority. Men of your Ta lents lents oblige the World, when they are ftudious to produce in others the Similitude of their Excellencies. Your great Difcerning in diftinguishing the Characters of Mankind, which is manifefted in Your Comedies, renders Your good Opinion a juft Foundation for the Efteem of other Men. I know, indeed, no Argument against thefe Collections, in Comparifon of any other Tonfon has heretofore Printed; but that there are in it no Verfes of Yours: That gentle, free, and eafie FaA 4 culty, |