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has not refted there ; he has borrowed from obfcure Engh'/k ballads 

 the fubjeds of fome of his poems, and appears even to have imi- 

 tated particular paflages* Yet, though we may trace in Burger 

 perpetual marks of imitation, he has contrived, by the ufe of ex- 

 travagant 



* The ftory of Leonore feems to have been fuggcfted by a ballad entitled the 

 «• Suffoll Miracle^' or a relation of a young man, who a month after his death ap- 

 peared to his fweet heart, and carried her on horfeback behind him for forty miles in 

 two hours, and was never after feen but in his grave. It is in a colleftion of ballads 

 in three volumes, printed in 1723. The following lines are remarkable: 



When flie was got her love behind, 

 They paft, as fwift as any wind. 

 That in two hours or little more 

 He brought her to her father's door. 

 But as they did this great hafte make, 

 He did complain his head did ache. 

 Her handkerchief flie then took out 

 And tied the fame his head about, 

 ■* And unto him (he thus did fay. 

 Thou art as cold as any clay, 

 When we go home a fire we'll have, 

 ' But little dreamed he went to grave. 



The reader will obferve in the fame poem lines that are a manifeft imitation from- ■ 

 the antient ballad of William's ghoft. 



The lines in Leonore begin, 



I And where is then thy houfe and home, &c. 



The lines in the Englifli original begin. 



Now has {he kilted her robes of green 

 A piece below the knee, &c. &c. 



