SUFFOLK

THE

OR, A COLLECTION OF

POEMS, SONGS, TALES, BALLADS,
SONNETS, AND ELEGIES,

Legendary and Romantic, Historical and Descriptive,

RELATIVE TO THAT COUNTY;

And Illustrative of its

SCENERY, PLACES, BIOGRAPHY, MANNERS,
HABITS AND CUSTOMS.

44

GARLAND:

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LIBRARY

OF THE

44 The sweet and the sower,
“The nettle and the flower NIVERSITY

OF

44

The thorne and the rose, CALIFORNIA

This GARLAND compose.

IPSWICH:

Printed and Sold by John Raw;

SOID ALSO BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND
BROWN; AND RODD AND SON, LONDON,

MDCCCXVIII.

7/9/15

Prefatory Sonnet,

BY THE REV. JOHN MITFORD, B. A.

VICAR OF BENHALL,

AND RECTOR OF WESTON ST. PETER.

Deem not inelegant his Mind, who loves
'Mid the rude Chronicles of Elder Time
Awhile to sojourn; and, with fabled rhyme,
In these late days, again in fancy roves
Through moated Halls, and Fields, and ancient
Groves,

Beneath whose shade our Fathers, in their prime,
Have sate ;-but now corroding age and crime
Have left but what their ancient glory proves.
Yet come :-and 'mid these mouldering Relics trace
The pensive shadows of departed years;
Mark, how again, with renovated grace,
Its front the long-forgotten Mansion rears;
And all, upstarting in its wonted place,
As touch'd by some enchanter's wand, appears.

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