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Were moving;-from the gnarled boughs above
The ring-dove pour'd its amorous plaint, and there
No more on man dependent, 'mid the leaves,
The red-breast built its Summer nest secure.

'Fit spot,' I cried, for Grecian bard to feign
Panisk, or fawn, amid the noonday heat
Reposing, or a band of paranymphs,
Such is the poet's high record, at eve
Discoursing in their soft Helladian tongue.
Or here, perchance, the silver-footed fays,
Tripping to moonlight minstrelsy, might start
The aged shepherd hastening down the glen.'-
Thou in this sylvan bower, 'mid tufted moss
And wrinkled fern, with colour'd weeds commix'd,
And glossy leaves of velvet texture, laid,
With hazel, and with hawthorn blossoms hung,
Like to a Tuscan lady in her bloom

Of richest beauty, as by Arno's vale,

Or where his shaded waters Arbia spreads,
Stepping from forth her princely halls, to taste
The breeze, entranc'd I've seen-thou,there reclin'd;
Or as some gertle Dryad, who at eve

Just stealing from her timid covert, hears
Young Zephyr breathe his vow.-The day was

clos'd;

The morning's roseate glow-The golden blaze
Meridian, and the eve's purpureal sky.-
Oh day! as innocent, as fair!—and thou,
Fair as the day, and young and innocent,
Sweet maiden; thou not seldom to thine eye
(As oft again on these retiring sands

Thy evening footsteps shall be seen) wilt call

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'Mid blushing smiles, and sunny tears, that speak
Of fond remembrance, all that memory holds
Of this sweet pilgrimage :-the winding shore,
The soft enamell'd margin-the long sweep
Of those majestic woods, which o'er the wave
Flung deep their emerald shadows, the far hills;
The grey rock, with its blue springs trickling down
Through thick concealing foliage; and the vale,
The long withdrawing vale, where Deben winds
His solitary wave from shore to shore,

To where the fountains of the Ocean lie.

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

IFE of MATTHEW PRIOR. By the Rev. J.

Mitford
Dedication; To the Right Honourable
Lionel, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex.
Preface.

On Exod. iii. 14-"I am that I am."-An Ode, written in 1688, as an Exercise at St. John's College, Cambridge

To the Countess of Exeter, playing on the Lute.
Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath. By Jordain.
the Earl of Exeter's, Burleigh House

An Ode, "While blooming youth and gay delight"
An Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd, Esq.

To the Countess of Dorset, written in her Milton, by
Mr. Bradbury

To the Lady Dursley: on the same subject
To my Lord Buckhurst. Very young, playing with a
Cat.

At

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An Ode, “While from our looks, fair nymph, you

A Song, "In vain you tell your parting lover'

The Despairing Shepherd.

To the Honourable Charles Montague

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Hymn to the Sun. Set by Dr. Purcell. And intended to be sung before their Majesties on New-year's day, 1693-4.

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The Lady's Looking-glass. In imitation of a Greek
Idyllium

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To Cloe weeping

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Love and Friendship. A Pastoral. By Mrs Elizabeth
Singer.

To the Author of the foregoing Pastoral

To a Lady: she refusing to continue a Dispute with me,
and leaving me in the Argument. An Ode .
Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir Godfrey
Kneller's.

Celia to Damon

An Ode presented to the King, on his Majesty's Arri-
val in Holland, after the Queen's Death, 1695
In Imitation of Anacreon

An Ode, "The merchant, to secure his treasure"
Ode sur la prise de Namur, par les Armes du Roy,
l'année 1692, par Monsieur Boileau Despreaux .
An English Ballad on the taking of Namur by the King
of Great Britain, 1695

Presented to the King at his arrival in Holland, after

the Discovery of the Conspiracy, 1696.

To Mr. Howard. An Ode

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A Song, "If wine and music have the power'

Mercury and Cupid

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sick

A better Answer

Lisetta's Reply

The Garland

The Lady who offers her Looking-glass to Venus
Cloe Jealous.

Answer to Cloe Jealous, in the same style, the Author

Pallas and Venus. An Epigram

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To a young Gentleman in love. A Tale.

Paulo Purganti and his wife: an honest, but a simple

Pair

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The Ladle

Written at Paris, 1700. In the beginning of Robe's

Geography

Written in the beginning of Mezeray's History of
France

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Written in the Nouveaux Intérêts des Princes de l'Eu

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Adriani morientis ad animam suam

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A Passage in the Moriæ Encomium of Erasmus imitated

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To Dr. Sherlock, on his Practical Discourse concerning
Death.

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Carmen Seculare, for the year 1700

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An Ode, inscribed to the Memory of the Honourable

Colonel George Villiers

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Prologue, spoken at Court before the Queen, on her

Majesty's Birthday, 1704.

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A letter to Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, occasioned by the Victory at Blenheim, 1704

Epigram, "Frank carves very ill, yet will palm all the meats"

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Another, "Yes, every poet is a fool"

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Another, "Thy nags (the leanest things alive)"

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To a person who wrote ill, and spoke worse against me
On the same Person

A Ballad of the Notbrowne Mayde
Henry and Emma. A Poem. Upon the model of the
Nutbrown Maid

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An Ode, humbly inscribed to the Queen, on the glorious
Success of Her Majesty's Arms, 1706