kind of poetical Embelliſhments. Theſe are, indeed, deſigned to ſupply the Place of the ſaid Ale, and to refreſh the Mind, whenever thoſe Slumbers which in a long Work are apt to invade the Reader as well as the Writer, ſhall begin to creep upon him. Without Interruptions of this Kind, the beſt Narrative of plain Matter of Fact muſt overpower every Reader; for nothing but the everlaſting Watchfulneſs, which Homer hath aſcribed to Jove himſelf, can be Proof againſt a News Paper of many Volumes.
We ſhall leave to the Reader to determine with what Judgment we have choſen the ſeveral Occaſions for inſerting theſe ornamental Parts of our Work. Surely it will be allowed that none could be more proper than the preſent; where we are about to introduce a conſiderable Character on the Scene; no leſs, indeed, than the Heroine of this Heroic, Hiſtorical, Proſaic Poem. Here, therefore, we have thought proper to prepare the Mind of the Reader for her Reception, by filling it with every pleaſing Image, which we can draw from the Face of Nature. And for this Method we plead many Precedents. Firſt, this is an Art well known to, and much practiſedby,
