Three Poets in three distant Ages born
Greece, Italy and England did adorn.
The First in
of thought surpass'd:
The Next in Majesty.in.
The force of Nature coud no further goe:
Third she joynd the Former two.

Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shake-
Spear's Head, over-against Catherine
Street in the Strand. MDCCXI.

To the Right Honourable

John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham.

I

My Lord,

T was Your Lordship's Opinion and Encouragement that occafion'd the first Appearing of this Poem in the Folio Edition, which from thence has been so well receiv'd, that notwithstanding the Price of it was Four times greater than be-fore, the Sale encreas'd double