HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MAR 5 1941 T. DAVISON, Lombard-street, Whitefriars, London. 72211 43-61 46-2. E DEDICATION. ΤΟ SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT, BART. MY DEAR SIR GEORGE, . ACCEPT my thanks for the permission given me to dedicate these Volumes to you. In addition to a lively pleasure `derived from general considerations, I feel, upon this occasion, a particular satisfaction; for by inscribing these Poems with your Name, I seem to myself in some degree to repay, by an appropriate honour, the great obligation which I owe to one part of the Collection-as having been the means of first making us personally known |