MAYDAY WITH THE MUSES.

BY
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD

Author of the Farmer's Boy, Rural Tales, &c.

LONDON:
Printed for the Author: and for Baldwin Chadock, and Joy

1822

LONDON:

Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.




PREFACE.

I am of opinion that Prefaces are very useless things in cases like the
present, where the Author must talk of himself, with little amusement to
his readers. I have hesitated whether I should say any thing or nothing;
but as it is the fashion to say something, I suppose I must comply. I am
well aware that many readers will exclaim--"It is not the common practice
of English baronets to remit half a year's rent to their tenants for
poetry, or for any thing else." This may be very true; but I have found a
character in the Rambler, No. 82, who made a very different bargain, and
who says, "And as Alfred received the tribute of the Welsh in wolves'