The Works of the English Poets

EPITAPH.

Here lies Sir THOMAS POWYS, Knight:
As to his Profession,

In accufing, cautious; in defending, vehement;
In all his pleadings, fedate, clear, and strong;
In all his decifions, unprejudic'd and equitable.
He ftudied, practifed, and governed the Law
In fuch a manner, that

Nothing equaled his knowledge, except his eloquence;
Nothing excelled both, except his juftice.
As to his Life,

He poffeffed, by a natural happiness,
All thofe civil virtues which form the gentleman:
And to these, by divine goodness, were added
That fervent zeal and extenfive charity,
Which distinguish the perfect Christian!
The tree is known by his fruit.

He was a loving husband and an indulgent father,
A conftant friend and a charitable patron;
Frequenting the devotions of the church;
Pleading the caufe, and relieving the neceffities,
of the poor.

What by example he taught throughout his life, At his death he recommended to his family and friends : "To fear God, and live uprightly."

Let whoever reads this ftone,

Be wife, and be instructed.

CONTENTS

CONTENT S

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

To the Right Honourable Mr. Harley,

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To Mr. Harley, wounded by Guifcard, 1711.
Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord
High Treasurer, 1714.

Erle Robert's Mice, in Chaucer's Style.
Two Poems in the fame Style.

A Flower painted by Simon Varelst.

To the Lady Elizabeth Harley, afterwards Marchionefs of Carmarthen, on a Column of her

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Gualterus Daniftonus ad Amicos.
Imitated.

The First Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter.
The Second Hymn of Callimachus. To Apollo.
Charity. A Paraphrafe on the Thirteenth Chapter
of the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

ibid.

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ibid.

13 ibid.

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Cupid in Ambush.

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