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A DISSERTATION upon the whole by
Way of PREFACE.

Curritur ad vocem jucundam, et carmen amicæ
Thebaidos, lætam fecit cum STATIUS Urbem,
Promifitque diem, tantâ dulcedine captos
Afficit ille animos, tantâque libidine Vulgi

Auditur; fed cum fregit fubfellia versu,

Efurit, intactam Paridi nifi vendat Agaven. Juvenal, Sat. 7.

All Rome is pleas'd, when STATIUS will rehearse,

And longing Crowds expect the promis'd Verse ;

His lofty Numbers with fo great a Gust

They hear, and fwallow with fuch eager Luft:

But while the common Suffrage crown'd his Caufe,
And broke the Benches with their loud Applaufe;

His Mufe had starv'd, had not a Piece unread,

And by a Player bought, supply'd her Bread. Dryden.

THE SECOND EDITION CORRECTED.

LONDON:

Printed for T. BECKET, in the Strand..
M DCC LXXIII,

(1773)

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