BATRACHOMUOMACHIA:
OR,
The BATTLE of the
FROGS and MICE.
Translated from Homer.
BY
A Land-Waiter in the Port of POOLE.
With some
Additional POEMS
By the same HAND.
The Batrachomuomachia of Homer is indeed a beautiful Piece of Railery; in which a great Writer might delight to unbend himself; an Instance of that agreeable trifling which hath been at some Time or other indulged by the finest Geniusses, and the Off spring of that amusing and chearful Humour which generally accompanies the Character of a rich Imagination, like a Vein of Mercury running mingled with a Mine of Gold.—Pope.
LONDON:
Printed for J. Wilford, behind the Chapter-house, in St. Paul's Church-yard. MDCCXXXVI. (Price Six-pence.)
