ON Receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady FRANCES SHIRLEY A STANDISH AND TWO PENS. ES, I beheld th' Athenian Queen YE Defcend in all her fober charms; "Secure the radiant weapons wield; Aw'd, on my bended knees I fell, The Fount of Fame or Infamy. "What Well? what Weapon? (Flavia cries) "But, Friend, take heed whom you attack; "L and all about your ears Y 4 "You'd "You'd write as smooth again on glass, "And run, on ivory, so glib, "As not to stick at fool or afs, "Nor stop at Flattery or Fib. "Athenian Queen! and sober charms ! "Come, if you'll be a quiet foul, PI S T LE E P TO ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD, AND EARL MORTIMER, SENT to the Earl of Oxford with Dr. Parnell's Poems published by our Author, after the faid Earl's Imprisonment in the Tower, and Retreat into the Country, in the year 1721. S UCH were the notes thy once-lov'd Poet fung, Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, 5 10 15 Or |