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THE

SHIPWRECK,

A POEM,

BY

WILLIAM FALCONER,

....

A SAILOR:

quæque ipse miserrima vidi,

Et quorum pars magna fui.—VIRG. ÆN. Lib. II.

THE TEXT ILLUSTRATED BY ADDITIONAL NOTES,

AND CORRECTED FROM THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS;

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

J. S. CLARKE, F. R.S.

VICAR OF PRESTON, AND LIBRARIAN TO
THE PRINCE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE-STREET;

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW,

1811.

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ΤΟ

GEORGE, EARL OF EGREMONT,

F. R. S.

MY LORD,

I feel particular pleasure in dedicating this Volume to you; it having invariably been the object of your life to protect the Bark that laboured amidst the Waves of this turbulent World: but for you, my Lord, mine would now drive at random before the Wind; since the revered PILOT, who so long conducted it, is in the Grave.

With a due sense of the many Favours you have honoured me with, and of the regard you had for that excellent Officer,

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