THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

MATTHEW PRIOR.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

WITH

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. II.

Cooke's Edition.

Here's no rude ore; no fits of heat and cold;
Here all is nature, yet all's beaten gold;

No forc'd myfterious foarings in the clouds;
No mud, no foam, no noife, in your deep floods,
With fuch true fpirit your great numbers run,
As lightning bold, but equal as the fun:
Gentle tho' ftrong; and high, yet ftill in fight;
Rapid, yet pure; and eafy as the light.

Verfes to Prior.

EMBELLISHED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVINGS.

London:

Printed for C. COOKE, No. 17, Paternoster-Row,
By J. Wright, No. 20, Denmark-Court;
And fold by all the Bookfel-

lers in the United

Kingdom.