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NECO.723.036
9-16 Dec 1723:11,12,21 (124)
[England] Meeting the other day with the excellent ballad of
Moor of Moore-Hall, and the Dragon of Wantly, and reading it
over attentively, I wonder'd the Spectator had never oblig'd
the world with a criticism of it, as well as of Chevy-Chase;
for in my opinion, it may boast of as peculiar flights as
that ancient song, nor is the hero of it at all inferiour to
Percy or Douglass. But since it has been so shamefully
neglected, I beg this criticism of it, may, in some measure,
by being admitted into your paper, shew the world some of
its beauties, and acquaint a great part of the world with a
piece of poetry, which hitherto. . . [essay continues with
verses scattered throughout, signed] Hypercriticus.
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