ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED,

BY THE LATE

CHARLES JOHNSTON, ESQ.

OF DANSON, Kent,

AND FORMERLY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

London:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

STEPHEN TUCKER, ESQ.

WELLING, KENT.

MY DEAR SIR,

I DEDICATE to you this little Volume of Sonnets, agreeably to the wishes of my late Nephew, who thus meant, as his Dissolution approached, to express the Love and Respect that he bore you.

How justly they were your due, the Family and myself most deeply feel; your Society and Friendship long cheered the hours of his protracted illness, and you watched over him with every office of Tenderness and Humanity to the last moments of his earthly existence.

The following Translations were intended by the Author to give the English Reader an adequate Idea of the Italian Sonnet-of Petrarch's more particularly. He so highly estimated the merit of being literal, that the Originals are annexed by the Editor.