AND VERSE,

BOUND UP TOGETHER, AND WRITTEN

By THOMAS LOWNDES, Esq. B. A.

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THE

Copyright of all of them being given by him

TO THE

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL FUND.

To cure the wounds and broken bones of civil strife
When Freedom, Property, Morality, and Life
Again are put in horrid Patriot jeopardy,
Under the artful name of Heav'n-born Liberty
By Knavish Jacobins, and their servile Tools
Brought up in Reformation's high and low Schools,
Where Embryo Peers and Footmen cheek by jowl
Quaff Freedom's cup alike, and mingle soul with soul,
A thing to some proud Sons of true Egalite'
(Fam'd for not snuffing after Titled Quality,)
So very charming, that on such Education
Depends with them, the welfare of the Nation,
I give this Book, if it be worth receiving
And dedicate to God, the Devil's leaving.

DOVER:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM BONYTHON,

King's Street.

LARVARD CO TE LIBRARY

THE DEQUEST OF
VERT JANSEN WENDELL

1919

ΤΟ

LORD ROBERT SEYMOUR.

MY LORD,

HAVING, in the Title-page of this Volume, presented to the Middlesex Hospital Fund the tracts it contains, if any thing beneficial to that institution can be extracted from my feeble mental productions, (for I fear, instead of sterling gold and silver, the residuum will only be a caput mortuum,) I naturally look around me for some long established benevolent character, connected with the above public charity, to whom I can with most propriety dedicate my book; and, except our illustrious, humane and liberal-minded King, can fix upon no individual, public or private, so proper as your Lordship. Because, even if it were not a collection of small single Tracts in Prose and

a

Verse of little or no value, (except like the bundle of rods when bound up together,) both worldly and courtly etiquette would alike prevent me from asking his Majesty's permission to dedicate a book to him so replete with grateful commendations of our illustrious Sovereign's unparalleled wisdom in foreign and domestic counsels, as (however conscious I am that the picture is drawn from life and the colouring not overcharged) the grossness of the supposed flattery would be no less repugnant to his Majesty's noble and delicate feelings than to my own independence. For though George IV., our magnanimous King, could, by giving me the smallest hereditary Title in the British empire, confer a greater honour on me than any other potentate in Europe however high the dignity, from being himself (by the blessing of Providence) the grand reservoir of all European honours, never will I for any court favours barter away the true dignity of man, (if a national title can be granted me on no other terms,) by giving up all those god-like and inexpressible feelings that will always result from honest independence.