Produced by Louise Hope, Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [This e-text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding, including a few lines of Greek: ⁂ [asterism] œ [“oe” ligature] Ἕκτορος ἀντικρὺ, βαλέειν δὲ ἑ ἵετο θυμός· If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the file instead. In the main text, the abbreviation N^o with superscript “o” has been changed to “No.” with final period. The “pointing finger” image is shown as [->]. Notes in [[double brackets]] were added by the transcriber. Except for footnote markers, all _single_ brackets are in the original. Footnotes marked with capital letters originally had asterisks; other footnote markers are unchanged. Errors are listed at the end of the e-text. In the primary text (_Cursory Observations_), the text was left as printed except when an error was unambiguous. In quoted verses, the use of y for þ (th) and z for ȝ (gh) is unchanged.] The Augustan Reprint Society EDMOND MALONE CURSORY OBSERVATIONS on the POEMS Attributed To THOMAS ROWLEY (1782) _Introduction by_ JAMES M. KUIST Publication Number 123 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California, Los Angeles 1966 GENERAL EDITORS George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION