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English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers./ A Satire./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library,/ No. 24, Cockspur Street./ [1809.] [12º.

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Half-title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title (R. _T. Collins, Printer, No. 1, Harvey's Buildings, Strand_), pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. v., vi.; Text (696 lines), pp. 1-54. The Imprint (_T. Collins, Printer, Harvey's Buildings, Strand_) is at the foot of p. 54.

_Note_.--The words "Scotch Reviewers" on the Title are in Gothic characters. Facsimile of the Title-page faces p. xiv. of _Poetical Works_, 1898, vol. i.