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Rh ing out any unjustly neglected poem, jumps with the original intention of this Series; and I may truly say with old Izaac Walton, that these smooth verses please me better than many of the strong lines now in fashion. This little Erotic romance is so short that, if the eyes were not dazzled by thick-bubbling tears, the whole might be perused in ten minutes; however the reader needs not be alarmed, for my intention is only by glimpses of its beauties to provoke him to the purchase of the book .—Hunt with his