The Reader is defired to correct the following material Errata, occafioned chiefly by the Author's being abfent when the Work was printed. P. 5. 1. 5. for Or read read Of all P. 29. 1. 1. for gain read know P. 67. 1. 3. P. 73. P. 85. 3. 1. 1. 5. for forbids my heart read forbids my feet for ground read plains for I've fought read I trace 1. 6. for didft read doft P. 87. 1. 3. for fell read felt ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Tranflations (with a very few exceptions) were written many years ago, and at that early age, when the mind is particularly alive to the fenfations described by Petrarch, Metaftafio, and Zappi. This is not mentioned as an excuse for their faults: the moment a man determines to publish, he must abandon all fuch ground of apology. Thus much only is faid for the fake of those readers who may think that it is not every period of life, at which it is becoming or reasonable to be bufied upon fuch fubjects. Indeed private gratification alone was originally in view: and this would not be doubted, if it were known to how few these verfes have been communicated during a period of thirteen or fourteen years. Whatever degree of merit may belong to thefe Tranflations, it confifts chiefly in their closeness to the Origi |