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FINALE.

Serj. While the loud voice of war resounds from afar, Songs of duty and triumph we'll pay:

When our monarch appears, we'll give him three cheers, With huzza! huzza! huzza!

Nancy. Ye sons of the field, whose bright valour's

shield,

Love and beauty your toils shall repay:
Inspired by the charms of war's fierce alarms,
Huzza! huzza! huzza!

Will. Inspired by my love, all dangers I'll prove;
No perils shall William dismay:

In war's fierce alarms, inspired by those charms,
Huzza! huzza! huzza!

your

Chorus. May true glory still wave her bright banners

around;

Still with fame, pow'r, and freedom, old England be crown'd.

THE

CRITIC;

OR,

A TRAGEDY REHEARSED,

TO MRS. GREVILLE.

MADAM,

In requesting your permission to address the following pages to you, which, as they aim themselves to be critical, require every protection and allowance that approving taste or friendly prejudice can give them, I yet ventured to mention no other motive than the gratification of private friendship and esteem. Had I suggested a hope that your implied approbation would give a sanction to their defects, your particular reserve, and dislike to the reputation of critical taste, as well as of poetical talent, would have made you refuse the protection of your name to such a purpose. However, I am not so ungrateful as now to attempt to combat this disposition in you. I shall not here presume to argue that the present state of poetry claims and expects every assistance that taste and example can afford it; nor endeavour to prove that a fastidious concealment of the most elegant productions of judgment and fancy is an ill return for the possession of those endowments. Continue to deceive yourself in the

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