NON OMNIS MORIAR S.Wale del C.Grignion Scalp. These venerable antient Song-enditers Row OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY. CONSISTING OF Old Heroic BALLADS, SONGS, and other Together with fome few of later Date. THE FOURTH EDITION. VOLUME THE FIRST. DURAT OPUS VATUM LOND O N. PRINTED BY JOHN NICHOLS, MDCCXCIV. OF OUR ANCIENT NOBILITY, EMPLOYED THE PRINCELY FORTUNE, AND SUSTAINED THE ILLUSTRIOUS HONOURS, WHICH SHE DERIVED FROM THEM, THROUGH HER WHOLE LIFE WITH THE GREATEST DIGNITY, GENEROSITY, AND SPIRIT; AND WHO FOR HER MANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES WILL EVER BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE FIRST CHARACTERS OF HER TIME, THIS LITTLE WORK WAS ORIGINALLY DEDICATED: AND, AS IT SOMETIMES AMUSEMENT, AND WAS HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED BY HER INDULGENT APPROBATION, IT IS NOW, WITH THE UTMOST REGARD, RESPECT, AND GRATITUDE, CONSECRATED TO HER BELOVED AND HONOURED MEMORY. |