If fuch a fight as this can please ye, To fpare a foe, to fave a friend : ODE ON SCIENCE. OH, heavenly-born'! in deepest dells If faireft fcience ever dwells Beneath the molly cave; Indulge the verdure of the woods : And flowery carpets lave; For melancholy ever reigns With fcientific light; While Dian, huntress of the vales, Obftructed and deprefs'd: When When Solon and Lycurgus taught, To erring zeal they gave new laws. Bid bright Aftræa gild the morn, Come, faireft princefs of the throng, While raptur'd bards no more behold A vernal age of purer gold In Heliconian ftreams. Drive Thraldom with malignant hand, To curfe fome other deftin'd land By Folly led aftray : Jerne bear on azure wing; So, when Amphion bade the lyre Behold the madding throng, CON CONTENTS THE FIRST ODE VOLUM E. DE to the Hon. Sir William Temple, 1689. Page 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. Another Ballad, occafioned by the preceding one. The Problem, that my Lord Berkeley stinks when Description of a Salamander, 1706. To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded the British Forces in Spain. On the Union. 21 26 28 29 33 36 37 On Mrs. Biddy Floyd. 38 Apollo outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch, Vanbrugh's Houfe, built from the Ruins of The Hiftory of Vanbrugh's Houfe.. Baucis and Philemon, 1708. 1.48 gal. Elegy Horace, Book I. Ode I. paraphrased. 1714. Book I. Ep. V. John Dennis the Shel- tering Poet's Invitation to Richard Steele the fecluded Party-writer and Member, to come and live with him in the Mint. To Lord Harley, on his Marriage. In Sickness. Written in Ireland, October 1714. The Fable of the Bitches. Written in the Year 1715, on an Attempt to repeal the Teft-Act. Horace, Book III. Ode II. To the Earl of Oxford, The Dean's Answer. |