being An Allusion in English Verse to the Epistle "ad Pisones, de Arte Poeticâ," and Intended as a Sequel to English Bards, And Scotch Reviewers .

——"Ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum

Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi."

Hor. De Arte Poet., II. 304 and 305.

"Rhymes are diftlcult things—they are stubborn things, Sir."

Fielding's Amelia, Vol. iii. Book; and Chap. v.

Footnote a: Ý

Hints from Horace (Athens, Capuchin Convent, March 12, 1811); being an Imitation in English Verse from the Epistle, etc.

Hints from Horace: being a Partial Imitation, in English Verse, of the Epistle Ad Pisones, De Arte Poeticâ; and intended as a sequel to English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers.

Athens, Franciscan Convent, March 12, 1811.