These venerable antient Song-enditers Soard many a pitch above our modern writers: With rough majestic force they mov'd the heart, And strength and nature made amends for Art.
Rowe.
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ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY:
CONSISTING OF
Old Heroic BALLADS, SONGS, and other PIECES of our earlier POETS,
(Chiefly of the LYRIC kind.) Together with fome few of later Date.