THE

SUFFOLK GARLAND:

ÓR, A COLLECTION OF

POEMS, SONGS, TALES, BALLADS,
SONNETS, AND ELEGIES,

Legendary and Romantic, Historical and Descriptive,

RELATIVE TO THAT COUNTY;

And Illustrative of its

SCENERY, PLACES, BIOGRAPHY, MANNERS,
HABITS AND CUSTOMS.

Printed and Sold by John Raw;

SOLD ALSO BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND
BROWN; AND RODD AND SON, LONDON.

MDCCCXVIII.

Prefatory Sonnet,

BY THE REV. JOHN MITFORD, B, A.

VICAR OF BENHALL,

AND RECTOR OF WESTON ST. PETER.

Deem not inelegant his Mind, who loves
'Mid the rude Chronicles of Elder Time
Awhile to sojourn; and, with fabled rhyme,
In these late days, again in fancy roves

Through moated Halls, and Fields, and ancient
Groves,

Beneath whose shade our Fathers, in their prime,
Have sate ;-but now corroding age and crime
Have left but what their ancient glory proves.
Yet come :-and 'mid these mouldering Relics trace
The pensive shadows of departed years;
Mark, how again, with renovated grace,
Its front the long-forgotten Mansion rears;
And all, upstarting in its wonted place,
As touch'd by some enchanter's wand, appears.

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"An ordinary SONG or BALLAD, that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such "readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature, which "recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined.

"I took a particular delight in hearing the SONGS "and FABLES that are come from father to son, and 66 are most in vogue among the common people: for "it is impossible that any thing should be universally "tasted and approved of by a multitude, which hath "not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify "the mind of man." SPECTATOR, No. 70.