Vi PREFACE. 
In the Essay on Rhyming Latin Verse, which was 
originally designed as part of the introduction to this 
work, amongst the modern ludicrous poems, I acci- 
dentally omitted an old acquaintance, Drunken Bar- 
naby’s Four Journeys to the North of England. In 
the original edition, which has no date, it is entitled 
Barnabee Itinerarium. There have been many sub- 
sequent editions, and the last by Robert Haslewood 
in 1820, of which only a few copies were printed, is 
afac simile of the editio princeps. The author was 
Richard Braithwait, M. A. It is unnecessary to 
make extracts from a poem so well known. I shall, 
however, quote one verse, which has afforded a sub- 
ject to an ingenious painter *. 
In progressu Boreali, 
Ut processi ab Australi, 
Veni Banbury, O profanum ! 
Ubi vidi Puritanum, 
Felem facientem furem 
Quia sabbato stravit Murem. 
In my progress travelling Northward 
Taking farewell of the Southward, 
To Banbury came I, O prophane one! 
Where I saw a Puritane-one 
Hanging of his cat on Monday, 
For killing of a mouse on Sunday. 
a E, Prentice, engraved by Meyer. 
