Virtuous, learn'd Society, of late
The Pride and Glory of a foreign State,
Made an Agreement on a Summer's Night,
To search the Moon at full, by her own Light;
5 To take a perfect Invent'ry of all
Her real Fortunes, or her Personal;
The Pride and Glory of a foreign State,
Made an Agreement on a Summer's Night,
To search the Moon at full, by her own Light;
5 To take a perfect Invent'ry of all
Her real Fortunes, or her Personal;
- ↑ After the Author had finished this Story in short Verse, he took it in his Head to attempt it in long. That this was compos'd after the other is manifest from its being wrote Opposite to it upon a vacant Part of the same Paper; and though in most Places the Poet has done little more than fill up the Verse with an additional Foot, preserving the same Thought and Rhime, yet, as it is a singular Instance in its Way, and has besides many considerable Additions and Variations, which tend to illustrate and explain the preceding Poem, it may be looked upon not only as a Curiosity in its Kind, but as a new Production of the Author's. This I mention only to obviate the Objections of those, who may think it inserted to fill up the Volume. To the Admirers of Butler, I am sure no Apology is necessary.
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