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 LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE-STREET; BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, 1811. 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, |