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lated. The foft warbler, who fills up a vacancy of thought with a tune, in which the fucceffion of words gives no idea but that of a fucceffion of founds, will here be much difappointed in meeting with the names of Prior, Congreve and Landsdown, inftead of Arne, Brent and Tenducci. The midnight roarer of coarfe jeft and obscenity will be still farther out of his element. But to those who are enamoured with that facred art, which beyond every other elevates andrefines the foul, to whom the fprightly lyre of Horace and Anacreon, and the melting mufic of Sappho fill found, though ages have paffed fince they vibrated on the ear, I will venture to promise a fource of enjoyment, from the works of those great mafters whofe names adorn this collection, which I hope they will not think too dearly purchased by the perufal of fuch introductory matter as is fubmitted to their candid exa

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H! Chloris, could I now but fit
Ah! the fhepherd's mournful fate
Ah! why muft words my flame reveal
Alexis fhunn'd his fellow fwains
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd

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ID me when forty winters more Bleft as th' immortal Gods is he Boaft not, miftaken fwain, thy art

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AMON if you will believe me

D Daphnis food penfive in the shade

Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure
Dear Colin prevent my warm blushes
Despairing befide a clear stream

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AIR Amoret is gone aftray

Fair and foft and gay and young

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Far in the windings of a vale

Fly, thoughtless youth, th' enchantress fly

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In vain, fond youth, thy tears give o'er

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I tell thee, Charmion, could I time retrieve

It is not, Celia, in our power

It was a Friar of orders gray

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ATE when love I feem'd to flight

Let not love on me beftow

Let the ambitious favour find

Love and Folly were at play
Love's a dream of mighty treasure
Love's but the frailty of the mind

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'ER moorlands and mountains rude barren and bare S9

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On Belvidera's bofom lying

One morning very early, one morning in the spring

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ELL me no more I am deceiv'd

Tell me not I my time mifpend

Tell my Strephon that I die

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The Graces and the wand'ring Loves

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The heavy hours are almost past

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