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When Heaven had You and gracious Anna * made,
What more exalted beauty could it add?
Having no nobler images in store,

It but kept up to thefe, nor could do more
Than copy well what it had fram❜d before.
If in dear Burghley's generous face we see
Obliging truth and handsome honefty:

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With all that world of charms, which foon will move
Reverence in men, and in the fair-ones love :
His every grace, his fair descent affures,
He has his mother's beauty, the has yours:
If every Cecil's face had every charm,

That thought can fancy, or that Heaven can form;
Their beauties all become your beauty's due,
They are all fair, because they're all like you.
If every Ca'ndifh great and charming look;
From you that air, from you the charms they took.
In their each limb, your image is expreft;
But on their brow firm courage stands confeft;
There, their great father, by a strong increase,
Adds ftrength to beauty, and compleats the piece :
Thus ftill your beauty, in your fons, we view,
Wieffen seven times one great perfection drew;
Whoever fat, the picture ftill is you.

So when the parent-fun, with genial beams,
Has animated many goodly gems,

He fees himself improv'd, while every stone,
With a resembling light, reflects a fun.

* Eldest daughter of the Counters.

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So when great Rhea many births had given, Such as might govern earth, and people heaven; Her glory grew diffus'd, and, fuller known, She faw the Deity in every fon :

And to what God foe'er men altars rais'd,

Honouring the offspring, they the mother prais'd.

In fhort-liv'd charms let others place their joys.
Which fickness blasts, and certain age destroys:
Your stronger beauty Time can ne'er deface,
'Tis still renew'd, and stamp'd in all your race.

Ah! Wieffen, had thy art been fo refin'd,
As with their beauty to have drawn their mind:
Through circling years thy labours would furvive,
And living rules to faireft virtue give,
To men unborn and ages yet to live :
'Twould still be wonderful, and still be new,
Against what time, or spite, or fate, could do;
Till thine confus'd with Nature's pieces lie,
And Cavendish's name and Cecil's honour die.

A FABLE, from PHEDRUS.
To the Author of the MEDLEY, 1710.

HE Fox an actor's vizard found,

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And peer'd, and felt, and turn'd it round : Then threw it in contempt away, And thus old Phædrus heard him say: "What noble part canft thou sustain, "Thou fpecious head without a brain?".

CONTENTS

To the Honourable Charles Montague, Efq. Page 46

Latin Verses on Dr. Shaw's taking a Degree.

Tranflation.

On the Taking of Namur.

Ode, in Imitation of Horace,

48
ibid.

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Hymn to the Sun, fet by Dr. Purcell.

The Lady's Looking-glafs.

Love and Friendship: a Pastoral. By Mrs. Eli-
zabeth Singer, afterwards Rowe,

To the Author of the foregoing Pastoral.

To a Lady, the refufing to continue a Difpute
with me, and leaving me in the Argument: an
Ode.

Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir
Godfrey Kneller's.

Celia to Damon.

An Ode prefented to the King, on His Majefty's
Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death,
1695.

In Imitation of Anacreon.

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Ode fur la Prise de Namur par les Armes du Roi,
l' Année 1692, par Monfieur Boileau Defpreaux. 84
An English Ballad, on the Taking of Namur by
the King of Great Britain, 1695.

An Ode.

Prefented to the King at his Arrival in Holland,

after the Discovery of the Confpiracy, 1696.

The Secretary, 1696.

To Cloe weeping.

To Mr. Howard. An Ode.

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Love

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