The Shipwreck (Falconer, 1762)/Advertisement

The Author of this Poem thinks it necessary to acquaint the Public, that it was not his first Intention to swell the Work with so many Notes; to avoid which he proposed to refer his Readers to any of the modern Dictionaries, which he might find most proper for explaining the sea-phrases, occasionally mentioned in the Poem; but upon strict Examination, finding most of them deficient in the technical Terms expressed there, he could not recommend them, without forfeiting his claim to the Capacity assumed in the Title Page, of which he is much more tenacious than of his Character as a Poet.