POEMS, ESSAYS, DIS- By JOHN NORRIS, Rector of Bemerton Diram qui contudit Hydran. Comperit Invidiam Jupremo fine domari. Hor. Epift. Lib. 2. Epist. i. The Fifth Edition, carefully Revised, Cozreded, LONDON: Printed for Samuel Manship, at the Ship against the Erecht Daychinch rewih dan 1856. Advertisement from the Authour to the Reader. A S it cannot be thought strange, that having by this Edition an Opportunity of Revifing this Book, I fhould comply with it; So neither can it, that when I did fo, I fhould find many things in it, (being a Juvenile Compofition) which my now Riper, and as I prefume better Judgment, cannot fo well Approve of. I have indeed found many things that were not as they should be; Some as to Notion, fome as to Fact, and fome as to manner of Expreffion; And accordingly what I have obfery'd of this kind, at least in the most confiderable Inftances, I have endeavour'd to rectifie, leaving out what was Incorrigible, and making fome Improvements up and down as Oc cafion offered: And tho' I cannot say it is now fo Correct as if it were the present Production of my Pen, yet I think it is indif. A 2 |