THE BRITISH MUSE, OR, A Collection of THOUGHTS Moral, Natural, and Sublime, OF OUR ENGLISH POETS: Who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. With feveral curious TOPICKS, and beautiful In THREE VOLUME S. By THOMAS HAYWARD, Gent. With an Hiftorical and Critical REVIEW of THIS, and all the COLLECTIONS of this Kind hitherto published. LONDON, Printed for F. COGAN, at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetftreet, and J. NOURSE, at the Latab without Temple-Bar. M. DCC. XXXVIII. E. ical this eft Our ids, 1 to $ of ick; me red ing no ke by es i d il f PREFACE, Containing an Hiftorical and Critical HE fuppofed eafe of digeft- |