GENUINE REMAINS IN VERSE and PROSE OF Mr. SAMUEL BUTLER, AUTHOR of H U DIBRA S. Published from the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, formerly in the With NOTES By R. THYER, Keeper of the Public Library at MANCHESTER. Printed for J. and R. TONSON, in the Strand. 392733-B. PRE F A C E. I'm fo T would be very unjuft to the memory of a Writer fo much and fa justly esteemed as Butler to suppose it neceffary to make any formal apology for the publication of these Remains. Whatever is the genuine performance of a Genius of his clafs cannot fail of recommending itself to every reader of taste; and all that can be required from the Publisher is to fatisfy the World, that it is not imposed upon by false and fpurious pretenfions. THIS has already been attempted in the printed Proposals for the fubfcription; but as the perishing form of a loose paper feems too frail a monument to preferve a teftimony of fo much importance, it cannot, I hope, be judged im per |