4. The Author having no revenge to gratify, and consequently no pleasure in giving pain, has purposely excluded the Works of all living Artists from this Gallery.

5. To those who are conversant with the Works of the Old Masters this piece of anachronism will hardly appear exaggerated.

6. Fra. Bartolomeo.

7. See Boswell's Life of Johnson.

8. This and the two following ballads were written at a very early age, and have already appeared in some of the Periodical Works of their day.