OCCASIONED BY HIS FIRST VISIT TO LADY WARWICK AT HOLLAND-HOUSE.

I.

TEARING that Chloe's bower crown'd
The fummit of a neighbouring hill,

Where every rural joy was found,

Where health and wealth were plac'd around,
To wait like fervants on her will.

II.

I went, and found 'twas as they faid,
That every thing look'd fresh and fair;
Her herds in flowery paftures ftray'd,
Delightful was the green-wood shade,
And gently breath'd the balmy air.

III.

But when I found my troubled heart
Uneafy grown within my breaft,
My breath come fhort, and in each part
Some new diforder feem to ftart,

Which pain'd me fore and broke my reft:

IV.

Some noxious vapour fure, I said,
From this unwholsome foil must rise;
Some fecret venom is convey'd
Or from this field, or from that shade,
That does the powers of life furprize.

V. Soon

V.

Soon as the skilful Leach beheld

The change that in my health was grown:
Blame not, he cry'd, nor wood nor field;
Difeafes which fuch fymptoms yield,
Proceed from Chloe's eyes alone.

VI.

Alike the kills in every air,

The coldeft breaft her beauties warm;
And though the fever took you there,
If Chloe had not been fo fair,

The place had never done you harm.

STA N Ꮓ A S

TO LADY WARWICK ON MR. ADDISON'S GOING TO IRELAND.

YE

I.

E Gods and Nereid nymphs who rule the fea!
Who chain loud ftorms, and still the raging main!

With care the gentle Lycidas convey,

And bring the faithful lover safe again.

II.

When Albion's fhore with chearless heart he left,
Penfive and fad upon the deck he stood,

Of every joy in Chloe's eyes bereft,

And wept his forrows in the fwelling flood.

III. Ah,

III.

Ah, faireft maid! whom, as I well divine,
The righteous gods his just reward ordain ;
For his return thy pious wishes join,

That thou at length may'ft pay him for his pain.
IV.

And fince his love does thine alone purfue,
In arts unpractis'd and unus'd to range;
I charge thee be by his example true,
And fhun thy fex's inclination, change.

V.

When crowds of youthful lovers round thee wait,
And tender thoughts in sweetest words impart;
When thou art woo'd by titles, wealth, and state,
Then think on Lycidas, and guard thy heart、

VI.

When the gay theatre shall charm thy eyes,
When artful wit shall speak thy beauty's praise;
When harmony fhall thy soft soul surprize,
Sooth all thy senses, and thy passions raise :

VII.

Amidft whatever various joys appear,

Yet breathe one figh, for one fad minute mourn; Nor let thy heart know one delight fincere,

Till thy own trueft Lycidas return.、

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IT and Beauty t' other day,
Chanc'd to take me in their way;
And, to make the favour greater,
Brought the Graces and Good-nature,
Converfation care-beguiling,
Joy in dimples ever finiling,
All the pleasures here below,

Men can afk, or gods beftow.
A jolly train, believe me! No:

There were but two, Lepell* and How.

THE CONTENTED

A

SHEPHERD.

TO MRS. A D

I.

S on a fummer's day

In the greenwood shade I lay,

The maid that I lov'd,

As her fancy mov'd,

Came walking forth that way.

II. And

Afterwards the celebrated Lady Harvey.

11.

And as fhe paffed by

With a fcornful glance of her eye,
What a shame, quoth she,

For a fwain muft it be,

Like a lazy loon for to die!