"And what is friendship but a name, "A charm that lulls to fleep-
* A fhade that follows wealth and fame, "But leaves the wretch to weep?"
GOLDSM,
LONDON:
Printed for the AUTHOR,
And SOLD by C. and G. KEARSLEY, Fleet-ftreet,
MD.CC.XCIV.
THE
PREFACE.
MIDST the Tempest
that now rages in the Political World, the Cabals of Faction, and the Terrors of Revolution, the private Sorrows of an Individual pass unregarded: The most