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SONNET XII.

*, whofe dear friendship in the dawning years Of undefigning Childhood first began, Through Youth's gay morn with even tenor ran, My noon conducted, and my evening cheers,

Rightly dost thou, in whom combin❜d appears
Whate'er for Public Life completes the Man,
With active Zeal strike out a larger plan,
No useless friend to Senators and Peers:

Me moderate talents and a small eftate
Fit for retirement's unambitious shade,
Nor envy I who near approach the throne;

But joyful fee thee mingle with the Great,
See thy deferts with due distinction paid,
And praise thy lot, contented with my own.

To the Right Hon. Mr., with the foregoing

SONNETS.

HOU, who fucceffive in that honour'd feat

TH

Prefid'ft, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'fwage,

To check the boift'rous force of party rage,

Raise modeft worth, and guide the high debate,

Sometimes retiring from the toils of State,

Thou turn'st th' instractive Greek or Roman page,
Or what our British Bards of later age
In scarce inferior numbers can relate:

Amid this feaft of Mind, when Fancy's Child,

Sweet SHAKESPEAR, raps the foul to virtuous deed,
When SPENSER, warbling tunes his Doric lays,

Or the firft.Man from Paradife exil'd

Great MILTON fings, can aught my ruftic reed
Prefume to found, that may deserve thy praise ?

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INDEX

A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe
To the Same. On her pleading Want of Time
To the Same

To the Same

To the Same with a new Watch

58

ibid.

59

ibid.

64

65

67

79

By Mr. Weft

80

The Inftitution of the Order of the Garter. By the Same 105

Epifle to Lord Cornbury

166

An Epiftle

185

Epiftle to a Lady

198

Epiftle to Mr. Pope

205

Epiftle to Pollio

207

An Irregular Ode written at Wickham in 1746
To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody
Verfes, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame Lady

On the Abufe of Travelling. A Canto in Imitation of Spenfer.

Ode to William Pultney, Efq;

Ode to Lord Lonsdale

210 213

Ode

Ode

Ode

Ode to Mankind

Verses to Camilla

To Clariffa

An Inscription on a Tomb

Epigrams

To the Honourable **

To Mr. Garrick

Nature to Dr. Hoadly

215

217

218

220

228

230

234

ibid.

The Danger of Writing Verfe. By W. Whitehead, Esq;

240

251

253

257

The Youth and the Philofopher

Ode to a Gentleman on his pitching his Tent, &c.
On a Meffage Card

The Je ne fcai Quoi

Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College. By Mr. Gray
Ode

Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat

Monody on the Death of 2. Caroline. By R. Weft, Efq; 274

A Pipe of Tobacco, in Imitation of fix feveral Authors

Ode to the Hon. C. Y.

From Cælia to Cloe

On a Fit of the Gout

An Ode of Horace

The female Right to Literature

On Shakespear's Monument at Stratford upon Avon

A Song

Chifwick

The Indifferent, from the Italian of Metaftatio

The Triumph of Indifference, an Ode

The Shepherd's Farewell to his Love

Riddles

Audivere, Lyce, &c.

280

287

289

291

293

294

300

301

302

ibid.

306

309

312, 314, 317

A Sonnet, imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega
Sennet's

GODLE

DOMINA

NUS TIO

LLUMEA