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YALDEN'S POEM S.

AGAINST immoderate Grief. To a young

Lady weeping. An Ode in Imitation of

Human Life, fuppofed to be spoken by an Epi

cure. In Imitation of the second Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon

Against Enjoyment

The Curfe of Babylon. Ifaiah, Chapter xiii.

paraphrafed

To Mr. Congreve. An Epistolary Ode, 1693.

Occafioned by the Old Bachelor

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The

To his Friend Captain Chamberlain, in Love
with a Lady he had taken in an Algerine Prize

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at Sea. In Allufion to Horace, Ode ii. 4.

To Mr. Watson, on his Ephemeris of the Ce-

leftial Motions, presented to her Majesty

The Rape of Theutilla. Imitated from the Latin

of Famianus Strada

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Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 1693

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The Force of Jealousy. To a Lady asking if

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her Sex was as sensible of that Paffion as Man 41

Imitated from the Beginning of the 16th Iliad

of Homer

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On the re-printing of Milton's Prose Works,

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with his Poems; written in his Paradife Loft 51

To Sir Humphry Mackworth, on the Mines late

of Sir Carbery Price

Ovid's Art of Love. Book II.

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Effay on the Character of Sir Willoughby Afton 88

To the Memory of a fair young Lady, 1697

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To Myra; written in her Cleopatra

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Advice to a Lover

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On the Conqueft of Namur. A Pindaric Ode.

Humbly infcribed to his Moft Sacred and victorious Majefty; 1695

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ESOP AT COURT:

SELECT

OR,

FABLE S.

ESOP to the KING

Fable I. The River and the Fountains

II. The Lion's Treaty of Partition

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III. The Blind Woman and her Doctors 119

IV. The Satyr's Address

V. The Farmer and his Dog

VI. The Fox and Bramble

VII. The Fox and Weazle. To the late

Honourable the Commiffioners of the

Prize-office

VIII. An Owl and the Sun

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Fable

Fable IX. The Sea and the Bankspo

X. The Nightingale and Cuckow

XI. The Sun and the Wind

XII. The Boar and Forest

XIII. The Fox and Flies

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XIV. The Bear and Mountebank
XV. The Peacock proclaimed King

XVI. A Laconic condemned

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