M'Samud Butter

In THREE PARTS.

Written in the Time of the

LATE WARS.

Corrected and Amended:

WITH

ADDITIONS

To which is added

ANNOTATIONS,

With an Exact

INDEX to the Whole.

Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts, from the
Defigns of Mr. HOGARTH.

DUBLIN:

Printed by S. POWELL,

For R. GUNNE, G. RISK, G. EWING, and W.SMITH,
M DCC XXXII.

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OETA nafcitur non fit, is a Sentence of as great Truth as Antiquity; it being most certain, that all the acquir'd Learning imaginable is infufficient to compleas a Poet, without a Natural Genius and Property to fo noble and fublime an Art. And we may without Offence obferve, that many very Learned Men, who have been ambitious to be thought Poets, kave only render'd themfelves obnoxious to that Satyrical Infpiration, our Author wittily invokes:

Which made them, tho' it were in spight Of Nature and their Stars, to write.