ABSTRACT
[First published, anonymously, in The Mæviad. By the Author of the Baviad, printed for the author and sold by G. Nicol, Pall Mall, J. Debrett, Piccadilly, and W. Richardson, Royal Exchange, 1795. This edition of the poem is based on the text found in its seventh edition (and the eighth of The Baviad), The Baviad, and Mæviad. By William Gifford, Esq., London, S. Tipper, 1810, pp. 53–128. For critical discussion of The Mæviad, see the introduction above. For the textual history of the poem, see ‘A Note on the Text’ above.
