BRITISH MUSE,

OR
A Collection of THOUGHTS
Moral, Natural, and Sublime,

OF OUR

ENGLISH POETS:

Who flourished in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,

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With several curious TOPICKS, and beautiful

PASSAGES, never before extracted, from
SHAKESPEAR, JOHNSON, · BEAUMONT,

FLETCHER, and above a Hundred more.
The Whole digested Alphabetically under their

respective Heads, according to the Order of
Time in which they wrote ; to fhew the
gradual IMPROVEMENTS of our Poetry and
Language.

VOL. III.

BY THOMAS HATIVIRD, Gent.
With an Historical and Critical Review of This, and
all the COLLECTIONS of this kind hitherto published.

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Printed for F. COGAN, at the Middle Temple Gate-
in Fleetftreet, and J. Nourse, at the Lamb withoir
Temple-Bar.
M.DCC.XXXyllä.

MADAM,

T is an honour to the British Nation, that it has, from time to time, produced so many

illuftrious . Patrons of the British Muse; * A

but,