Those who may have expected a matchless collection, and find it inferior to other poetical selections, will please to think of the following Italian proverb:—
“CHI LAVA LA TESTA AL ASINO PERDE IL SAPONE.”
and accept the same from their
Obedient Servant,
THE EDITOR.
Newcastle upon Tyne, August, 1812.
VERSES
ON
NORTHUMBERLAND MINSTRELSY.
BY H.R.