THE COMPLAINT: OR, Right-Thoughts ON Life, Death, & Immortality. The SIXTH EDITION. Sunt lacrymæ rerum, & mentem mortalia tangunt. VIRG. LONDON: Printed for R. DODSLEY, at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall; M.DCC.XLIII. PREFACE. A S the Occafion of this Poem was Real, not Fictitious; fo the Method pursued in it, was rather impofed by what Spontaneously arofe in the Author's Mind, on that Occafion, than meditated or defigned. Which will appear very probable from the Nature of it. For it differs from the common Mode of Poetry, which A 3 is 3979 .324 1743 7 |