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selected from a great mass of Verses such as appeared to myself and my Friends to be the least discreditable to their Author: I have endeavoured to remove such faults as were pointed out to me; and indeed have bestowed more time on their improvement, than such trifles can possibly be worth. I now print them, more that I may have the pleasure of giving them to those few friends, whose partiality will make them blind to their defects, than from any hope that their merits can recommend them to unprejudiced judges. M. G. LEWIS.