Excerpt from A Posthumous Poem of the Late Thomas Dickens, Esq., Lieut. Colonel in the First Regiment of Foot Guards, Dedicated, by Permission, to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester: To Which Is Added the Genealogy of the Author From K. Edward III; Also a Few Grateful Stanzas to the Deity, Three Months Previous to His Death, Sept; 21, 1789 Would to God, the Author had lived to have made his own molt grateful Acknowledge ment, which in fo imperfeel a Manner is Offered and attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.