POE MS

BY

WILLIAM BROOME, LL.D.

Chaplain to the Right Honourable CHARLES Lord CORNWALLIS, Baron of Eye.

Nos otia vitæ

"Solamur Cantu."

STAT.

WITH

ADDITIONS and ALTERATIONS,

Made by the Author in 1743, but not copied in the Ldition of 1750.

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To the Right Honourable

CHARLES, Lord Viscount TOWNSHEND;

Late one of his Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State, and Knight of the Moft Noble Order of the Garter, &c.

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MY LORD,

Beg leave to publish the following poems under your patronage: A prefent, I confefs, unworthy of it, and of little value, excepting what gratitude gives it: But, I fear, it may be efteemed a boaft rather than an acknowledgement, or at beft, an oftentatious kind of gratitude, to tell the world that I have received the higheft obligations from the Lord Townfhend: It is an honour to be regarded by a person of fo diftinguished a chara&er: I am proud of it, and, not being of a nature to be content with a filent gratitude, am not deterred from owning it; though it be liable to be mifcalled vanity.

You have, my Lord, the happiness to enjoy what that great statesman Walfingham, who held the fame office which you fill with fo much honour, frequently wished,