IN THREE PARTS, Written in the Time of THE LATE WARS: Corrected and Amended. WITH LARGE ANNOTATIONS, AND A PREFACE, BY ZACHARY GREY, LL.D. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts. VOL. I. CAMBRIDGE: Printed by J. BENTHAM, Printer to the UNIVERSITY, for W. Innys, A. Ward, Meff. J. and P. Knapton, D. Browne, S. Birt, T. Longman, T. Woodward, C. Hitch, J. Ofwald, MDCC.XLIV. TO THE READ E R. POETA as OETA nafcitur non fit, is a Sentence of as great Truth as Antiquity; it being most certain, that all the acquir'd Learning imaginable is infufficient to compleat a Poet, without a natural Genius and Propensity to fo noble and fublime an Art. And we may without offence obferve, that many very learned Men, who have been ambitious to be thought Poets, have only render'd themselves obnoxious to that Satyrical Inspiration, our Author wittily invokes : Which made them, tho' it were in fpight a On the other fide, fome who have had very little Human Learning, but were endued with a large Share of Natural Wit and Parts, have become the moft celebrated Poets of the Age they liv'd in. But as these laft are, Raræ Aves in Terris; fo when the Mufes have not difdain'd the assistances of other a Shakespear, D'Avenant, &c. A 2 Arts |