reality it is, the fpontaneous tribute of unaffected gratitude, unalloyed with the flightest tincture of adulation, the imputation of which, at once to remove, I shall neither dwell on the clearness of your head, the goodnefs of your heart, or what you have little-little need of calling to your aid, a descent truly illustrious. I fhall only just beg then, that you will receive thefe Kolumes as you do myself.

The AUTHOR.

INTRO.

ERRATA

P. 41. 1.

VOL. I.

After the word "that" add Luxury. P.42. 1. 20. for Benedictorium, read Benedictorum P. 161. 1. 3. for Patrium, read Patrum. P. 202. 1. 22. for Procluius, read Proclufius. P. 257.1. 6. for Kieran, read Kieran's.

VOL. II.

P. 175. 1. 25. dele wifh.

INTRODUCTION.

FRIEND.

I'M glad to find you alone.

AUTHOR.

I will not fay, with the ancient philofo.. pher, that I was in very good company till you came, as I am always happy to fee my friends.

FRIEND.

Of that I am fenfible; but I am glad, I fay, to find you by yourself, not befide yourself.

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AUTHOR.

AUTHOR.

How, what do you mean?

FRIEND.

Why you must know, that the report is, that you are about to turn author, which, in this critical age, though it cannot be properly called the age of criticism, is only another word for a madman.

AUTHOR.

Even fo, "there is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know :" we are in a free country, cannot a man amuse himself with his pen as often as he pleases? and what fignifies freedom, if at times a person don't avail himself of the happiness of it?

FRIEND.

True, provided it might have the fame effect on his readers: but numbers are gratified in finding out faults; like infects, that fly over the found parts to indulge on fores.

AUTHOR.