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 blafts, and certain age destroys:
Your stronger beauty Time can ne'er deface,
'Tis ftill 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 fairest virtue give,
To men unborn and ages yet to live :
'Twould still be wonderful, and still be new,
Against what time, or fpite, 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 PHÆDRUS.
To the Author of the MEDLEY, 1710.

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 fpecious head without a brain?"

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

OF THE FIRST VOLUM E.

DEDICATION.

Preface.

On Exodus iii. 14. "I am that I am," an Ode.

Confiderations on Part of the 88th Pfalm,

To Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely, who had recom-

mended to him a Tranflation of Prudentius.

A Paftoral, to the Bishop of Ely,

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To the Countefs of Exeter playing on the Lute.

On a Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath, by Jordain,

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Milton. By Mr. Bradbury.

To the Lady Durfley, on the fame Subject.

To my Lord Buckhurft, very young, playing with

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a Cat.

ibid.

To the Honourable Charles Montague, Efq.

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

Tranflation.

On the Taking of Namur.

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

Hymn to the Sun, fet by Dr. Purcell.

The Lady's Looking-glafs.

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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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ibid.

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ibid.

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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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Author fick.

A better Anfwer.

Venus miftaken.

A Song.

The Dove.

A Lover's Anger.

Mercury and Cupid.

On Beauty: a Riddle.

The Question: to Lifetta.

Lifetta's Reply.

The Lady who offers her Looking-glafs to

Answer to Cloe Jealous, in the fame Style; the

Pallas and Venus: an Epigram.

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To a young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.

Written at Paris, 1700, in the Beginning of

Written in the Beginning of Mezeray's History of

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France.

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Written

A Paffage in the Moriæ Encomium of Erafmus

imitated.

ibid.

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To Dr. Sherlock, on his practical Difcourfe con-

cerning Death.

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Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700: to the

King,

The Remedy worse than the Disease.

An Ode infcribed to the Memory 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 fpoken at Court before the Queen on

Her Majefty's Birth-day, 1704.

A Letter to Monfieur Boileau Defpreaux, occa-

fioned by the Victory at Blenheim, 1704.

On a Paffage in the Scaligeriana.

To a Child of Quality, five Years old,

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