POEMS
Reading edition
AND
SONGS,
BY
THOMAS FLATMAN.
The Fourth Edition,
With many Additions and Amendments.
———Me quoque vatem Dicunt Pastores, sed non Ego credulus illis. Virgil.
LONDON,
Printed for Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1686.
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Flatman has been condoled with on his name by Mr. Bullen, one of the few persons who have done him some justice in recent years.1 I should rNote 2 · Flatman was evidently a tolerable scholar; and his Latinity, of which several specimens will be found here, does no discredit to the WinchesNote 3 · Hayls may not have been a great painter; but he certainly seems to have had the knack of putting character in his portraits. Neither that of