Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London March 11777

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL BUTLER.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

FROM

THE TEXTS OF DR. GREY AND MR. THYER,

WITH THE

LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES.

Now you must know Sir Hudibras

With fuch perfections gifted was,

And fo peculiar in his manner,

That all that faw him did him honour.------HUD. AT COURT,
But fince his worship 's dead and gone,

And mould'ring lies beneath this ftone,
The Reader is defir'd to look
For his achievements in h's Book;
Which will preferve of Kught the Tale,
Till Time and Death itself thað Vil.

HUD.'; EPITAPH.

Bell's second edition.

VOL. III.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTIES.
Anno 1784.