WHEN Fanny · blooming fair

First caught my ravish'd fight, Struck with her shape and air,

I felt a strange delight: Whilst eagerly I gaz'd,

Admiring every part, And every feature prais'd, She stole into my

heart.

In her bewitching eyes

Ten thousand loves appear ; There Cupid basking lies,

His fhafts are hoarded there; Her blooming cheeks are dy'd

With colour all their own, Excelling far the pride

Of roses newly blown.

Her well-turn'd limbs confess

The lucky hand of Jove;
Her features all express
The beauteous queen of love :

a Supposed to be Lady Frances Shirley,

What

WHenever

, Chloe, I begin

Your heart like mine to move, You tell me of the crying fin

Of unchaste lawless love.

How can that passion be a fin,

Which gave to Chloe births How can those joys but be divine,

Which make a heaven on earth?

To

To wed, mankind the priest trepann'd,

By some fly fallacy,
And disobey'd God's great command,

Increase and multiply.

You say that love's a crime ; content:

Yet this allow you must,
More joy's in heav'n if one repent,

Than over ninety just.

Sin then, dear girl, for heaven's fake,

Repent and be forgiven ;
Bless me, and by repentance make

A holy day in heaven.

I N D E

X

TO THE

FIR'S T

V O L U M E.

A

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Poem to his Excellency the Lord Privy Seal, on the Pro-

Spet of Peace
To the Right Hon. the Earl of Warwick, &c. On the 25
Colin and Lucy

31
An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus, from Horace, Book
III. Ode XXV.

35
To Sir Godfrey Kneller, at his Country Seat

39
On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan

42
An Ode inscribed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Sunderland
at Windsor

44
Kensington Garden
An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avig-

69
The Female Reign, ar Ode

78
Six Town Eclogues

91
The Lover : A Ballad. To Mr. Chandler

115

48

non

127

The Lady's Resolve. Written extempore on a Windows 118
The Gentleman's Answer

119
An Epiflle to Lord Bathurst

ibid.
Epilogue to Mary Queen of Scots

123
A Receipt to cure the Vapours

125
The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert Jackson
An Epigram on the Rev. Mr. Laurence Echard's, and Bishop
Gilbert Burnet's Hiftories

158
The Sparrow and Diamond. A Song

159
Jove and Semele

162
The Seeker

164
On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers

165
Pre-Existence. A Poem, in Imitation of Milton

170
Chiron to Achilles. A Poem

184
ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕ ΑΥΤΟΝ. .
Know yourself

192
London : a Poem, in Imitation of the third Satire of Juvenal

199
Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the Opening of the Tbeatre
in Drury-lane, 1747

213
Of Active and Retired Life. An Epiffle to Henry Coventry,
Esq;

216
Grongar Hill

227
The Ruins of Rome. A Poem

234
The School-Mistress, a Poem, in Imitation of Spenfer 260
The Art of Politics, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry

276
The Man of Taste. Occasion'd by an Epifle of Mr. Pope's os
that Subject

312
Elay on Conversatios

327
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