Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect:
With virgin honours let my hearse be deckt,
And decent emblem; and, at least, perfuade
This happy nymph that Emma may be laid
Where thou, dear author of my death, where the 620
With frequent eye my fepulchre may fee.
The nymph, amidst her joys, may haply breathe
One pious figh, reflecting on my death,
And the fad fate which the may one day prove,
Who hopes from Henry's vows eternal love.
And thou forfworn, thou cruel, as thou art,
If Emma's image ever touch'd thy heart,

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Thou fure must give one thought, and drop one tear
To her whom love abandon'd to despair;
To her who dying on the wounded stone,
Bid it in lafting characters be known,
That of mankind she lov'd but thee alone.

HEN. Hear, folemn Jove, and, conscious Venus, hear;
And thou, bright maid, believe me whilst I fwear ;
No time, no change, no future flame, fhall move 635
The well plac'd bafis of my lafting love.

O pow'rful Virtue! O victorious fair!

At leaft excufe a trial too fevere;

Receive the triumph, and forget the war.

No banish'd man, condemn'd in woods to rove, 640 Entreats thy pardon, and implores thy love: No perjur'd knight defires to quit thy arms, Faireft collection of thy fex's charms,

Crown of my love, and honour of my youth;

Henry, thy Henry, with eternal truth,

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As thou may'ft with, fhall all his life employ,

And found his glory in his Emma's joy.
In ne behold the potent Edgar's heir,
Illuftrious earl: him terrible in war,
Let Loyre confefs, for the has felt his fword,

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And trembling fled before the British lord.

Him great in peace and wealth fair Deva knows,
For the amidst his fpacious meadows flows,
Inclines her urn upon his fatten'd lands,

And fees his num'rous herds imprint her fands.

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And thou, my fair, my dove, fhalt raife thy thought
To greatness next to empire; fhalt be brought
With folemn pomp to my paternal feat,

Where peace and plenty on thy word fhall wait:
Mufic and fong hall wake the marriage day,
And while the priests accufe the bride's delay,
Myrtles and roles fhall obftruct her way.

Friendship fhall till thy ev'ning feasts adorn,
And blooming Peace fhall ever blefs thy morn,
Succeeding years their happy race shall run,
And Age unheeded by delight come on,
While yet fuperior love fhall mock his pow'r;
And when old Time shall turn the fated hour,
Which only can our well-ty'd knot unfold,
What refts of both one fepulchre shall hold.

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Hence, then, for ever, from my Emma's breaft (That heav'n of softness and that feat of reft) Ye doubts and fears, and all that know to move Tormenting grief, and all that trouble love; Scatter'd by winds recede, and wild in forests rove. 675 EMMA. O day, the faireft fure that ever rofe!

Períod and end of anxious Emma's woes!

Șire of her joy, and fource of her delight,

O! wing'd with pleafure take thy happy flight,
And give each future morn a tiểure of thy white.
Yet tell thy vot'ry, potent queen of love,
Henry, my Henry, will he never rove?
Will he be ever kind, and juft, and good?
And is there yet no miftrefs in the wood?

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None, none there is: the thought was rath and vain, A falfe idea, and a fancy'd pain,

Doubt fhall for ever quit my ftrengthen'd heart,
And anxious Jealoufy's corroding smart;
Nor other inmate fhail inhabit there,

But foft Belief, young Joy, and pleafing Care.
Hence let the tides of plenty ebb and flow,
And Fortune's various gale unheeded blow.
If at my feet the fuppliant goddess stands,
And sheds her treasure with unweary'd hands,
Her prefent favour cautious I'll embrace,
And not unthankful ufe the proffer'd grace;

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If the reclaims the temporary boon,

And tries her pinions, flutt'ring to be gone,
Secure of mind I'll obviate her intent,

And unconcern'd return the goods the lent.
Nor happiness can I, nor mifery, feel,
From any turn of her fantastic wheel:

Friendship's great laws and love's fuperior pow'rs,
Muft mark the colour of my future hours.
From the events which thy commands create
I muft my bleffings or my forrows date,
And Henry's will muft dictate Emma's fate.
Yet, while with close delight and inward pride
(Which from the world my careful soul shall hiḍe)
Ì fee thee, lord and end of iny defire,
Exalted high as virtue can require,

With pow'r invefted, and with pleafure cheer'd,
Sought by the good, by the oppreffor fear'd,
Loaded and bleft with all the affluent ftore
Which human vows at smoking shrines implore;
Grateful and humble grant me to employ
My life fubfervient only to thy joy,

And at my death to blefs thy kindness, shown

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To her who, of mankind, could love but thee alone. WHILE thus the conftant pair alternate faid,

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Joyful above them and around them play'd
Angels and fportive loves, a num'rous crowd:
Smiling they clapt their wings, and low they bow'd:
They tumbled all their little quivers o'er,
To chufe propitious fhafts a precious store,
That when their god fhould take his future darts,
To ftrike, (however rarely) constant hearts,
His happy kill might proper arms employ,
All tipt with pleafure, and all wing'd with joy;
And thofe, they vow'd, whofe lives fhould iinitate 730
Thefe lovers' conftancy, fhould fhare their fate.
The queen of beauty stopp'd her bridled doves,
Approv'd the little labour of the loves:

Was proud and pleas'd the mutual vow to hear,
And to the triumph call'd the god of war:
Soon as the calls, the god is always near.

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Now Mars, the faid, let Fame exalt her voice, Nor let thy conquefts only be her choice, But when the fings, great Edward from the field Return'd, the hoftile fpear and captive shield In Concord's temple hung, and Gallia taught to yield. And when, as prudent Saturn fhall complete The years defign'd to perfect Britain's ftate, The fwift-wing'd pow'r fhall take her trump again, To fing her fav'rite Anna's wondrous reign, To recollect unweary'd Malbro's toils, Old Rufus' Hall unequal to his spoils, The British foldier from his high command Glorious, and Gaul thrice vanquish'd by his hand, Let her at least perform what I defire, With fecond breath the vocal brafs infpire, And tell the nations in no vulgar ftrain, What wars I manage, and what wreaths I gain. And when thy tumults and thy fights are past, And when thy laurels at my feet are caft; Faithful may't thots, like British Henry prove, And Emma-like let me return thy love.

Renown'd for truth let all thy fons appear,
And conftant beauty fhall reward their care.

Mars fmil'd, and bow'd: the Cyprian deity
Turn'd to the glorious ruler of the fky;
And thou, fhe finiling faid, great god of days
And verfe, behold my deed and fing my praife;
As on the Britifh earth, my fav'rite ifle,'
Thy gentle rays and kindeft influence finile,
Thro all her laughing fields and verdant groves,
Proclaim with joy thefe memorable loves:
From ev'ry annual courfe let one great day
To celebrated sports and floral play
Be fet afide; and in the fofteft lays

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Of thy poetic fons, be folemn praife
And everlasting marks of honour paid

To the true lover and the Nut-brown Maid.

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THE END.

Cloe jealous,

Answer to Cloe jealous, in the same Style,

A better Answer,

Venus mistaken,

Venus' Advice to the Muses,

The Judgment of Venus,

Phillis' Age,

Chaste Florimel,

The Question, to Lisetta, and Lisetta's Reply,

Cupid and Ganymede,

Cup.d mistaken,

Cupid in Ambush,

Cupid turned Ploughman, from Moschus,

Cupid turned Stroller,

Mercury and Cupid,

Democritus and Heraclitus,

Merry Andrew,

Gaulterus Dani tonus ad amicos,

Imitated,

Chanson, and Imitation,

The Lady's Looking-Gl. ss,

The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus,

The Chameleon,

The Flies,

The Female Phaeton,

The Wandering Pilgrim,

Nonpareil,

The Despairing Shepherd,

The Old Gentry,

The Pedant,

The Remedy worse than the Disease,

The Secretary, written at the Hague, 1698,
Considerations on Part of the lxxxviiith Psalm,

Two Riddies, 1710,

On Beauty, a Riddle,

An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford,

Written at Paris, 1700. in the Beginning of Robe's Geography 43

Written in Montaigne's Essays,

44.

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Written in the Beginning of Mezeray's History of France, Written in the Nouveaux Interests des Princes de L'Europe, 45 Written in an Osid,

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