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PREFACE.
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and Contemporaries paid less Regard to their own Performances.

Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam,
Unde prius nulli velârunt tempora Musæ.
Lucr. B. I.

Nemo me lacrumeis decoret, nec funera fletu
Facsit; quur volito vivu' per ora virûm.
Enn. Frag.

———Tentanda via est, quâ me quoque possim
Tollere humo, victorque virûm volitare per era.
Virg.G. 3.

Me doctarum Ederæ præmia frontium
Diis miscent superis———
Hor. Od. I.

Again,

Exegi monumentum ære perennius,
Regalique situ Pyramidum altius,
Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis
Annorum series, & fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar.———
Hor. B. 3. Od. 30.

The whole Ode is in a manner a continu'd Compliment to his own Writings; nor, in Imitation of this celebrated Author, want we Poets of our present Age, who have been pleas'd to rank themselves amongst their own Admirers.

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