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 And this true honour from their love-death sprung, .

Editor cannot take leave of the kind, novelty-contemning reader, who has, in spite of rough and wild ways, accompanied his honoured charges and himself thus far, without a remark on the extreme and reprehensible carelessness of Mr. Malone and others, in describing this original poem as a mere translation of Musæus !

Had these accurate gentlemen ventured a step out of the bibliographer's strong hold, (the title page and colophon) and cast a glance on any one argument of the various "Sestyads," they might have felt some compunction in their papery hearts for the slight put on the illustrious manes of

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