IMITATE D.

STUDIOUS the bufie Moments to deceive,

That fleet between the Cradle and the Grave,
I credit what the GREECIAN Dictates fay,
And SAM IAN Sounds o'er SCOTIA's Hills convey.
When mortal Man refigns his tranfient Breath;
The Body only I give o'er to Death.

The Parts diffolv'd, and broken Frame I mourn:
What came from Earth; I fee to Earth return.
The Immaterial Part, th' Æthereal Soul,
Nor can Change vanquish, nor can Death controul.
Glad I release it from it's Partner's Cares;
And bid good Angels waft it to the Stars.
Then in the flowing Bowl I drown those Sighs,
Which, Spight of Wisdom, from our Weakness rife,
The Draught to the Dead's Mem'ry I commend,
And offer to the now immortal Friend.
But if oppos'd to what my Thoughts approve,
Nor PLUTO's Rage there be, nor Pow'r of Jove;
On it's dark Side if Thou the Prospect take;
Grant all forgot beyond black LE THE'S Lake:
In total Death fuppofe the Mortal lye,

No new Hereafter, nor a future Sky:

Yet bear thy Lot content; yet cease to grieve:

Why, e'er Death comes, doft Thou forbear to live?
The little Time Thou haft, 'twixt Inftant Now
And Fate's Approach, is All the Gods allow:
And of this little haft Thou ought to fpare
To fad Reflection, and corroding Care?

The

The Moments paft, if Thou art wife, retrieve
With pleasant Mem'ry of the Bliss they gave.
The present Hours in prefent Mirth imploy;
And bribe the Future with the Hopes of Joy.
The Future (few or more, how e'er they be)
Were deftin'd e'rft; nor can by Fate's Decree
Be now cut off, betwixt the Grave and Thee.

The End of the First Volume.

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THE

THE

CONTENTS.

N Exodus III. 14. I am that I am.

ON

An

Ode. Written in 1688, as an Exercise at St. Pager
John's College, Cambridge.

To the Countess of Exeter playing on the Lute
Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath, by Jordain, at the
Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter's at Burleigh
House.

An Ode.

An Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard, Efq;

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

To the Lady Durfley, on the fame Subject.

P. S

p.7

p. 8

P. 10

P. 17

ibid.

To my Lord Buckhurst, very Young, playing with aĆat.p. 18

An Ode.

A Song.

The Defpairing Shepherd.

To the Honourable Charles Montague, Efq;

p. 19

P. 20

P. 11

p. 22

Hymn to the Sun, fet by Dr. Purcel, and Sung be-2.

fore Their Majefties on New Years Day. 1694. SP. 24

The Ladies Looking-Glass.

Love and Friendship: A Paftoral. By Mrs. Eliza-2
beth Singer.

To the Author of the foregoing Paftoral.

P. 27

SP. 29

P. 31

To a Lady, She refusing to continue a Difpute with?

Me, and leaving Me in the argument in P. 32

Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir God-
frey Kneller's.

Celia to Damon.

}

P. 34

P. 35

An

An Ode prefented to the King, on His Majesty's Ar-2

rival in Holland, after the Queen's Death, 1695. SP. 39

In Imitation of Anacreon.

An Ode.

Ode fur la prife de Namur par les Armes du Roy,

l'Année 1692. Par Monfieur Boileau Defpreaux.

An English Ballad, on the Taking of Namur by the

King of Great Britain, 1695.

Prefented to the King at His Arrival in Holland, af-2

ter the Difcovery of the Confpiracy, 1696.

To Cloe weeping.

To Mr. Howard, An Ode.

Love difarmed.

Cloe hunting.

Cupid and Ganymede.

Cupid mistaken.

Venus mistaken.

A Song.

The Dove.

A Lover's Anger.

p. 46

P. 47

p. 48

P. 49

p.

SP. 62

Mercury and Cupid.

On Beauty: a Riddle.

The Question: to Lifetta.

Lifetta's Reply.

The Garland.

The Lady who offers her Looking-Glafs to Venus.

Cloe jealous.

P. 89

P. 82

p. 84

ibid.

p. 85

p. 87

ibid.

Anfwer to Cloc jealous, in the fame Style; the Author Sick.p.89

4 Dutch Proverb.

Paulo Purganti and his Wife: an Honest, but a Sim-

ple Pair:

The Ladle,

Written at Paris, 1700: in the beginning of Robe's

Geography.

Written in the beginning of Mezeray's Hiftory of

France.

Written in the Nouveaux Interefts des Princes de

l' Europe.

Adriani Morientis ad Animam Suam.

By Monfieur Fontenelle.

Imitated.

A Paffage in the Morie Encomium of Erafmus
Imitated.

To Dr. Sherlock, on his practical Difcourfe con-

cerning Death.

}

p. 114

p. 116

p. 117

ibid.

P. 118

ibid,

} ibid.

Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700: to the King.

Carmen Seculare, Latinè redditum per Tho. Dib-

ben, è Col. Trin. Cantab.

An Ode infcribed to the Memory of the Honourable

Colonel George Villiers, drowned in the River

Piava, in the Country of Friuli 1703: in Imi-
tation of Horace, Ode XXV III. Lib. I.

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P. 119

p. 122

p. 142

P. 161

Prologue fpoken at Court before the Queen on Her p. 164
Majelty's Birth-Day, 1704.

A Letter to Monfieur Boileau Defpreaux, occafi-

oned by the Victory at Blenheim, 1704.

For the Plan of a Fountain, &c.

The Chamelion.

Merry Andrew.

A Simile.

The Flies.

From the Greek.

Epigram.

SP.

P. 166

P. 173

P. 174

P. 175

P. 177

ibid.

P. 178

ibid.

Ano