PEACOCK AT HOME;

AND

Other Poems.

BY

MRS. DORSET.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, 32, FLEET-STREET;
J. HARRIS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; AND
MANNERS AND MILLER,

EDINBURGH;

By Harding and Wright, St. John's-Square.

1809.

PREFACE.

THE favour with which the little poem, intitled "THE PEACOCK AT HOME," has been received in its juvenile form, has induced me to re-publish it, in one more worthy of those who have expressed a desire to see it transplanted from the nursery, honourable station. It is also in compliance with the opinion of others, that I have added notes to the present edition, which, although it had been before recommended, I had con

to a more