*** If such a fight as this can please ye,
6. Good madam Pallas, pray be easy,
-" To Neptune speak, and he 'll consent;
-66 But he 'll come back the knave he went."

The goddess, who conceiv'd an hope,
That Horte was destin'd to a rope,
Believ'd it best to condescend :
To spare a foe, to save a friend :
But, fearing Berkeley might be fcard,
She left him Virtue for a guard.

O DE ON SCIENCE. OH, heavenly-born! in deepest dells

If fairest science ever dwells Beneath the mossy cave; Indulge the verdure of the woods : With azure beauty gild the foods,

And flowery carpets lave.;
For melancholy ever reigns
Delighted in the fylvan scenes

With scientific light;
While Dian, huntress of the vales,
Seeks lulling sounds and fanning gales

Though wrapt from mortal fight.
Yet, goddess, yet

the

way explore With magic rites and heathen lore

Obstructed and depressid :
Till Wisdom give the sacred Nine, a

1. L'ntaught, not uninspir’d, to fine, By Reason's power redress d.

When Solon and Lycurgus taught,
To moralize the human thought

Of mad opinion's maze,
To erring zeal they gave new laws.
Thy charms, O Liberty, the cause

That blends congenial rays.
Bid bright Aftræa gild the morn,
Or bid a hundred suns be born,

To hecatomb the year;
Without thy aid, in vain the poles,
In vain the zodiac system rolls,

In vain the lunar sphere.
Come, fairest princess of the throng,
Bring sweet Philofophy along

In metaphyfic dreams;
While raptur'd bards no more behold
A vernal age of purer gold

In Heliconian streams.
Drive Thraldom with malignant hand,
To curse some other deftind land

By Folly led astray :
Jerne bear on azure wing;
Energic let her foar, and fing

Thy univerfal fway.
So, when Amphion bade the lyre
To more majestic sound aspire,

Behold the madding throng,
In wonder and oblivion drown'd,
To fculpture turn'd by magic found
And petrifying fong.

3

CON

CONTENT

TS

THE FIRST

VOLUM E.

ODE DE to the Hon. Sir William Temple, 1689. Page 1 to the Athenian Society, 1691.

9 Lines written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book, 1699. 20 Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition, Ballad on the Game of Traffic,

26 Another Ballad, occasioned by the preceding one. 28 The Discovery.

29 The Problem, that my Lord Berkeley stinks when

he is in Love. Description of a Salamander, 1706.

33 To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded the

British Forces in Spain.
On the Union.
On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

38 Apollo outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch, afterwards Countess of Winchelsea.

39 Vanbrugh's House, built from the Ruins of": Whitehall.

.

41 The History of Vanbrugh's Houses Baucis and Philemon, 1708.

yaol

Elegy

36 3.7

46

Page 54

58

69

Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge the

Almanack-maker.
Merlin's Prophecy, 1709,
A Description of the Morning.

59
-- a City-Shower, 1910.

60
On the little House by the Church-yard of Castle.
nock.

62

The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod. 65

Atlas ; or, the Minister of State.

68

A Town Eclogue.

The Fable of Midas, 171.

71

An excellent now Song ; being the intended Speech
of a famous Orator against Peace.

74
The Windsor Prophesy.

77

Epigram, 1712.

79

Corinna.

ibid.

Toland's Invitation to Dismal, to dine with the

Calves-head Club.

80

Peace and Dunkirk; an excellent new Song.

Horace, Book I. Ep. VII. 1713.

Book II. Sat. VI.

The Author

upon

himself.

93

The Faggot.

Catullus de Lesbia.

Epigram, from the French.

99

On a Curate's Complaint of Hard Duty,

ibid.

A true and faithful Inventory of the Goods belong-

ing to Dr. Swift, Vicar of Laracor ; upon his
lending his House to the Bishop of Meath till
his Palace was re-built.

Cadenus

82

84
89

96

98

Cadenus and Vanessa.

Page 101

To Love.

131

Ode to Spring. By a Lady.

132

to Wisdom. By the same.

133

A Rebus. By Vanessa.

154

The Dean's Answer.

ibid.

Horace, Book I. Ode I. paraphrased. 1714. 135

Book I. Ep. V. John Dennis the Shel-

tering Poet's Invitation to Richard Steele the

secluded Party-writer and Member, to come

and live with him in the Mint.

140

To Lord Harley, on his Marriage.

146

In Sickness. Written in Ireland, October 1714. 149

The Fable of the Bitches. Written in the Year

1715, on an Attempt to repeal the Test-Act.

150

Horace, Book III. Ode II. To the Earl of Oxford,

late Lord Treasurer. Sent to himn when in the

Tower, 1716.

152

Phyllis; or, The Progress of Love.

153

Ad Amicum Eruditum Thomam Sheridan. 1717. 156

Horace, Book IV. Ode IX. Addressed to Abp.

King. 1718.

To Mr. Delany.

159

A left-handed Letter to Dr. Sheridan.

A Motto for Mr. Jason Hafad, Woollen-draper in

Dublin ; whose Sign was the Golden Fleece. 164

To Mr. Sheridan.

165

Stella's Birth-day, March 13, 1718-19.

158

163