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Drawn & Etched by John Augustus Atlanson.

Fools paying the Portice of Folly.

London Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street. 1807.

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By Willia

ÆRE PERENNIUS.

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try Ireland I.
LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1807.

PR 4821 15m

DEDICATION.

To that individual, if such an one exists, who resembles the man sought after by the philosopher Diogenes at noon day, with a lighted candle in a lanthorn*.

UNKNOWN,

WHERESOE'ER thou art, I humbly greet thee, heedless of thy country, religion, language, or colour; well convinced, that neither climate, creed, tongue or complexion can prove detrimental to the expansion of wisdom, or tend to warp thee from the pursuits of everlasting truth.

To thee, O Phoenix! or to adopt the words of Solomon, "Beloved of my soul," do I send

*It is obvious, that our Poet did not take the honest man of the Cynic, in a literal sense, but that he conceived the philosopher went in search of a wise and good man, and not merely of one who was proof against the temptation of purloining a silver spoon.

Colui e huomo, che può regger se stesso.

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