PERSONS AND MATTERS The Nunerals few the Book, the Figures the Verse. Page 20 32 Vertumnus and Pomona, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, 5 11 13 the Story of Cephalus and Procris, with the Motto Aura Veni, 14 ib. 15 16 17 18 19 Horate's Satires, Epifles, and Odes. Imitated. 34 73 77 79 97 111 114 118 119 120 127 141 145 ib. 159 Powder, 161 Miscellanies. 163 166 ik, ib. 115 160 Page ih. Miscellanies A Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit, in 1733, when he was Old, Blind, and in great Difrels, a little before his Death, 167 Song by a Person of Quality, 1733, On his Grotto at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars, Gems, On receiving from the Rt. Hon. Lady Frances Shirley, a Standish ib. 1. On Charles Earl of Dorset, in the Church of Withyam in Suiffex, 173 1. On Sir William Trumball, one of the principal Secretaries of is. Harcourt, at the Church of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire, 173 ib. VI. On Mrs. Corbet, who died a Cancer in het Breaft, VII. On the Monument of the Hon. Robert Digby, and of his fifter ib. VIII. On Sir Godfrey Kneller, in Westminster-Abbey, 1723, 175 IX. On General Henry Withers, in Weftminster-Abbey, 1729, ib. ib. Year of his Age, 1735, id A Letter to the Publister, occafioned by the first correct Edition of Martinus Scriblerus his Prolegomena and. 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