RELIQUES OF ANCIENT POETRY, ETC.
SERIES THE SECOND.
[BOOK 1.]
"Though some make slight of Libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: As, take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not shew the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels."—Selden's Table-Talk.
