MEMOIRS OF 



and very foon began his great poetic 

 work ; but previoufly, a few weeks after 

 they were compofed, fent the vcrfes Mift 

 S. wrote in his Botanic Garden, to the 

 Gentleman's Magazine, and in her name, 

 From thence they were copied in the 

 Annual Regifter ; but, without confulting 

 her, he had fubftituted for the laft fix 

 lines, eight of his own. He afterwards, 

 and again without the knowledge of their 

 author, made them the exordium to the 

 firft part of his poem, publifhed, for cer- 

 tain reafons, fbme years after the fecond 

 part had appeared. No acknowledgment 

 \vas made that thofe verfes were the 

 work of another pen. Such acknowledg- 

 ment ought to have been made, efpecially 

 fmce they pafled the prefs in the name of 

 their real author. They are fomewhat 

 Altered in the exordium to Dr. Darwin's: 

 Poem, and eighteen lines of his own are 

 interwoven with them. 



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