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 saw the Deity in every fon :
And to what God soe'er men altars rais'd,
Honouring the offspring, they the mother prais'd.

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

Ah! Wiessen, had thy art been so refin’d,
As with their beauty to have drawn their mind :
Through circling years thy labours would survive,
And living rules to fairest 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 dic.

}

A FABLE, from PHÆDRUS.

To the Author of the MEDLEY, 17.10.
THE
THE Fox an actor's vizard found,

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

CONTENTS

C Ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ S
CON T S

OF THE

FIRST

VOL U M E.

DEDICATION.

Page 1 Preface.

15 On Exodus iii. 14. “ I am that. I am," an Ode. 19 Considerations on Part of the 88th Psalm,

23 To Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely, who had recommended to him a Translation of Prudentius.

24 A Pastoral, to the Bishop of Ely,

25 To the Countess of Exeter playing on the Lute. 28 On a Pi&ture of Seneca dying in a Bath, by Jordain, at Burleigh House.

30 An Ode.

ibid, An Epistle to Sir Fleetwood Shephard.

33 Another.

35. To the Countess of Dorfet Written in her Milton. By Mr. Bradbury.

41 To the Lady Dursley, on the fame Subject.

42 To my Lord Buckhurst, very young, playing with

ibid. An Ode.

43 A Song,

44 The Despairing Shepherd.

45

a Cat.

48

62

:

64

To the Honourable Charles Montague, Esq. Page 46
Latin Verses on Dr. Shaw's taking a Degree.
Translation.

ibid.

On the Taking of Namur.

49

Ode, in Imitation of Horace, 3 Od. ii.

ibid.

Hymn to the Sun, set by Dr. Purcell.

59

The Lady's Looking-glass.

Love and Friendship: a Pastoral. By Mrs. Eli-

zabeth Singer, afterwards Rowe,

To the Author of the foregoing Pastoral.

66

To a Lady, she refusing to continue a Dispute

with me, and leaving me in the Argument : an
Ode.

81

Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture är Sir

Godfrey
Kneller's.

69

Celia to Damon.

70

An Ode presented to the King, on His Majesty's
- Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death,

1695.

In Imitation of Anacreon.

Ode sur la Prise de Namur par les Armes du Roi,

l' Année 1692, par Monsieur Boileau Despreaux. 84

An English Ballad, on the Taking of Namur by

the King of Great Britain, 1695.

85

An Ode.

Presented to the King at his Arrival in Holland,

after the Discovery of the Conspiracy, 1696.

99

The Secretary, 1696.

To Cloe weeping.

103

To Mr. Howard. An Ode,

83

103

104

112

Love difarmed,

Page 105

Cloe hunting.

107

Cupid and Ganymede.

208

Cupid mistaken.

III

Venus mistaken.

ibid.

A Song.

The Dove.

113

A Lover's Anger

J18

Mercury and Cupid.

119

On Beauty : a Riddle.

121

The Question: to Lisetta.

123

Lifetta's Reply.

ibid.

The Garland.

124

The Lady who offers her Looking-glass to

Venus.

126

Cloe Jealous.

ibid,

Answer to Cloe Jealous, in the same Style; the

Author fick.

128

A better Anfwer.

129

Pallas and Venus : an Epigram.

130

To a young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.

131

An English Padlock.

134

Hans Carvel.

137

A Dutch Proverb.

14?

Paulo Purganti and his Wife.

ibid.

The Ladle.

Written at Paris, 1700, in the Beginning of

Robe's Geography.

154

Written in the Beginning of Mezeray's Hiftory of

France,

148
158

Written in the Nouveaux Interêts des Princes

de l'Europe.

Page 156

Adriani Morientis ad Animam suam.

157

By Monsieur Fontenelle.

ibid.

Imitated.

ibid.

A Passage in the Moriæ Encomium of Erasmus

imitated.

To Dr. Sherlock, on his practical Discourse con•

cerning Death.

159

Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700 : to the

King.

161

The Remedy worse than the Disease.

182

An Ode inscribed to the 'Meinory of the Ho-

nourable Colonel George Villiers, drowned in

the River Piava, in the Country of Friuli, 1703;

in Imitation of Horace, 1 Od. xxviii.

Prologue spoken at Court before the Queen on

Her Majesty's Birth-day, 1704.

186

A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, occa-

fioned by the Victory at Blenheim, 1704. 188

On a Passage in the Scaligeriana.

195

To a Child of Quality, five Years old,

196

Partial Fame.

197

For the Plan of a Fountain, &c.

198

The Camelion.

ibid.

Merry Andrew.

A Simile.

The Flies.

From the Greek.

203

Two Epigrains.

183

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200

201

202