BALLADS,

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.

FOUNDED ON ANECDOTES RELATING TO ANIMALS,

WITH PRINTS, DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM BLAKE.


1805.



PREFACE

Three words of Horace may form an introduction to the following pages,
the very words, which that amiable physician and poet, the late
Dr. Cotton of St. Alban's, prefixed as a motto to his elegant and
moral little volume of Visions in Verse:

"VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE CANTO."

Or in plainer English prose:--The book is intended for young Readers.



BALLADS.