for Poetry, and had written what they believ'd
would much please me. C.L.]

[Footnote 5: A name-sake and relation of the Author: of the Age, as I
understand, of about 14.]

[Footnote 6: I am half tempted to say of it

_A Fist may hit him who a Sermon flies._

Ridiculum aeri Fortius et melius magnas quandoque fecat res. C.L.]

[Footnote 7: BURNS, and Mrs. YEARSLEY.]

[Footnote 8: _Pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter_, atque ardens evexit
ad aethera Virtus, Felices, potuere!]

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CONTENTS

ESSAY ON WAR

HONINGTON GREEN

THE CULPRIT

YORKSHIRE DIP

LOVE'S TRIUMPH

PROVERBS OF THREESCORE

MORE BREAD AND CHEESE

LYRIC ADDRESS TO DR. JENNER

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ESSAY ON WAR

[War for room required by encreased Population.--With Arts of Use
and Comfort spring those of War.--Blessings of the Infant State of
Society.--Peace cannot last beyond the Infancy of Society.--War
defined to preserve the equilibrium of Population.--War between hords
of emigrating Stranger Nations.--Invasions on account of violated
Women.--Love the strongest and most natural cause of War.--Violence of
conflicting Passions at sight of an Enemy.--Solitary wounded Combatant
amid the Dying and Dead.--Female Friends seeking for Dead or Wounded
Relatives.--Morning after the Battle--Sympathy--Compassion.--Long
remembrance of the Horrors of War.--Gunpowder; it's tremendous
effects.--Gunpowder, a humane discovery.--Castles &c. proofs of the
continued prevalence of War.--Men quit a peaceful Country to seek War
abroad.--History full of War.--Slavish Peace more cruel and more horrid
than War.--Obligations of Peace to the active Virtues of War.--Havock
of Peace more shocking than that of War.--War between Man and the rest
of the animal Creation.--War of the Elements and natural
Powers.--Recapitulation.... Conclusion.]

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Man's sad necessity, destructive War,
Sweeps to the grave the surplus of his sons,
Where'er the kindly clime and soil invite
To Love; and multiply the Human Race.
Around the World, in every happier spot
Where Earth spontaneous gives nutritious fruits.
Her softest verdure courting human feet,
And mossy grot's, beneath protecting shades,
The Stranger's envy, the Possessor's pride;
There, as increasing numbers throng each bower.
Frequent and fatal rivalships arise;
And ruthless War erects his hideous cre