SONNET XI.

Oung, fair, and good! ah why should young and fair

And good be huddled in untimely grave?

Must so sweet flow'r fo brief a period have,

Juft bloom and charm, then fade and disappear?

Yet our's the lofs, who ill alas can spare

The bright example, which thy virtues gave;
The guerdon thine, whom gracious heav'n did fave
From longer trial in this vale of care.

Reft then, sweet faint, in peace and honour reft,
While our true tears bedew thy maiden hearse,
Light lie the earth upon thy lovely breast;
And let a grateful heart with grief opprefs'd

To thy dear mem'ry confecrate this verse,
Though all too mean for who deferves the best.

SON

W

SONNET XII.

whose dear friendship in the dawning years Of undefigning Childhood first began, Through Youth's gay morn with even tenor ran, My noon conducted, and my evening chears,

Rightly doft thou, in whom combin'd appears

Whate'er for Public Life completes the Man, With active Zeal strike out a larger plan, No useless friend to Senators and Peers:

Me moderate talents and a small estate

Fit for Retirement's unambitious fhade,
Nor envy I who near approach the throne;
But joyful fee thee mingle with the Great,
See thy deferts with due diftinction paid,
And praise thy lot, contented with my own.

SON

***

***

SONNET XIII.

To the Right Hòn. Mr., with the foregoing

SONNET S.

HOU, who fucceffive in that honor'd feat

THO

Prefid'ft, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'fwage,

To check the boift'rous force of Party rage,

Raife modest worth, and guide the high debate,

Sometimes retiring from the toils of State,
Thou turn'ft th' inftructive Greek or Roman page,
Or what our British Bards of later age

In fcarce inferior numbers can relate :

Amid this feast of Mind, when Fancy's Child,

Sweet SHAKESPEAR, raps the foul to virtuous deed,
When SPENSER warbling tunes his Doric lays,

Or the first Man from Paradise exil'à

Great MILTON fings, can ought my ruftic reed
Prefume to found, that may deferve thy praife?

INDEX

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INDEX to the Second Volume.

HE Progrefs of Love. In four Eclogues
Soliloquy of a Beauty

Blenheim

Epiftle to Dr. Ayscough

Epiftle to Mr. Poyntz

Verfes under Mr. Poyntz's Picture.

Epiftle to Mr. Pope

Epistle to my Lord ***

Advice to a Lady

1693

25

31
34
35

38

41

Song

Song

46

Damon and Delia

47

Ode in Imitation of Paftor Fido

49

Part of an Elegy of Tiballus

Song

Verfes written at Mr. Pope's
Epigram

To Mr. Weft at Wickham

To Miss Lucy F

To the fame, with Hammond's Elegies
To the Same

To the Same

A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Storve

To the Same. On her pleading want of Time

To the Same

To the Same

To the fame with a new Watch

ibid.

An Irregular Ode writ at Wickham in 1746
To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody.
Verfes, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame Lady
On the Abufe of Travelling. A Canto in Imitation of
Spenfer. By Mr. Weft

80

The Inftitution of the Order of the Garter. By the Same 105

Epigrams

ibid.

The Danger of Writing Verfe. By W. Whitehead, Esq; 240

To the Honourable ***

251

To Mr. Garrick

253

Nature, to Dr. Hoadly

257

The Youth and the Philofopher

259

Ode to a Gentleman on his pitching his Tènt, &c.

261

On a Meffage Card

263

The Je ne fcai Quoi

265

Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat

Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College. By Mr. Gray 266

Ode

270

272

Monody on the Death of 2. Caroline. By R. Weft, Esq; 274

A Pipe of Tobacco, in Imitation of fix feveral Authors

The Indifferent, from the Italian of Metaftafio

The Triumph of Indifference, an Ode

The Shepherd's Farewel to his Love

Riddles

A Sonnet, imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega 321

Sonnets

The END of VOL. II.

322

ibid.

306

309

312, 314, 317

318