BOOK I.

ARGUMENT.

The Subject proposed.--Remarks upon Pastoral Poetry.--A Tract of Country near the Coast described.--An Impoverished Borough.--Smugglers and their Assistants.--Rude Manners of the Inhabitants.--Ruinous Effects of an high Tide.--The Village Life more generally considered: Evils of it--The youthful Labourer.--The Old Man: his Soliloquy.--The Parish Workhouse: its Inhabitants.--The Sick Poor: their Apothecary.--The dying Pauper.--The Village Priest.

THE

VILLAGE.