THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

MATTHEW PRIOR

WITH A LIFE,

BY REV. JOHN MITFORD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

M.DCCC.LIII.

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3

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CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

ERLE ROBERT'S MICE. In Chaucer's style..

In the same style....

In the same style....

A Flower painted by Simon Verelst.

To the Lady Elizabeth Harley, since Marchioness of

Carmarthen, on a Column of her drawing.

Protogenes and Apelles..

Democritus and Heraclitus..

For my own Tombstone.

Gualterus Danistonus ad Amicos.

Imitated....

The first Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter

The second Hymn of Callimachus. To Apollo.....

Charity. A Paraphrase on the thirteenth Chapter of

the First Epistle to the Corinthians...

Engraven on a Column in the Church of Halstead, in

Essex

Written in Montaigne's Essays, given to the Duke of

Shrewsbury in France, after the Peace, 1713..

An Epistle, desiring the Queen's Picture...

Alma; or the Progress of the Mind.

Canto I.

II.

III.

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1862, supy.

Benry A. Denny,
of Costing

RIVERSIDE,

CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

STEREOTYPED BY STONE AND SMART.

Page

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

ERLE ROBERT'S MICE. In Chaucer's style..

In the same style......

In the same style..

A Flower painted by Simon Verelst.

To the Lady Elizabeth Harley, since Marchioness of

Carmarthen, on a Column of her drawing.

Protogenes and Apelles..

Democritus and Heraclitus..

For my own Tombstone.

Gualterus Danistonus ad Amicos.

Imitated.....

The first Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter

The second Hymn of Callimachus. To Apollo......

Charity. A Paraphrase on the thirteenth Chapter of

the First Epistle to the Corinthians....

Engraven on a Column in the Church of Halstead, in

Essex.

Written in Montaigne's Essays, given to the Duke of

Shrewsbury in France, after the Peace, 1713.

An Epistle, desiring the Queen's Picture...

Alma; or the Progress of the Mind.

Canto I.

II.

III.