Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) / A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William / Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning

by William Wagstaffe; George Canning

MICROCOSM.

MONDAY, February 12, 1787.

————Servetur ad imum,

Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.

Horace.

From his first Entrance to the closing Scene,

Let him one equal Character maintain.

Francis.

AVING thus gone through the first part, or beginning of the Poem, we may naturally enough proceed to the consideration of the second.