"When that the Poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept." Shakespeare. "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, Goldsmith, GLOCESTER: PRINTED BY G. F. HARRIS, HERALD OFFICE, AND SOLD BY Stewart, Piccadilly, Simcoe,, Warwick Street, Golden Square, London; Norton and Fenley, Bristol;--Hazard and Barratt, Bath;--Knott and ΤΟ HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, PRESIDENT; THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF EGREMONT;---THE LORDS AND OTHERS, MEMBERS OF THE BATH AND FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCE; AND ALL OTHERS, WHO PURSUE, WITH THE SAME LAUDABLE ZEAL AND BENEVOLENCE, SUCH GRAND AND NATIONAL PURSUITS ;-- The following Poem, A FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO INFUSE AND DISSEMINATE SENTIMENTS AND OPINIONS AND INCITIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENTS, IS, WITH PECULIAR PROPRIETY, AND WITH ALL DUE DEFERENCE AND ESTEEM, MOST RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY INSCRIBED, BY THE AUTHOR. "Quod si deficiunt vires, audacia certe, Propertius. |