So when great Rhea many births had given, Her glory grew diffus'd, and, fuller known, 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. Ah! Wieffen, had thy art been fo refin❜d, } A FABLE, from PHÆDRUS. 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 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- To the Lady Durfley, on the fame Subject. To my Lord Buckhurft, very young, playing with a Cat. ibid. To the Honourable Charles Montague, Efq. Latin Verfes on Dr. Shaw's taking a Degree. Ode, in Imitation of Horace, 3 Od. ii. 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 An Ode prefented to the King, on His Majefty's 76 Ode fur la Prise de Namur par les Armes du Roi, l'Année 1692, par Monfieur Boileau Defpreaux. 84 Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700: to the 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- |