Title The British muse, or, A collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets [microform] / who flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; with several curious topicks, and beautiful passages, never before extracted, from Shakespear, Johnson, Beaumont, Fletcher, and above a hundred more ; the whole digested alphabetically under their respective heads, according to the order of time in which they wrote; to shew the gradual improvements of our poetry and language ; by Thomas Hayward, gent. ; with an historical and critical review of this, and all the collections of this kind hitherto published.