ON

Several Occafions.

Liberius fi

Dixero quid, feu forte jocafius, hoc mihi, jure,

Cum venia dabis.

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HOR.

LONDON,

Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXIII.

MVSEVM BRITAN NICV M

POEMS

ON

Several OCCASIONS.

To CLOE,

Covering her Neck, with an Indian Handkerchief.

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! Let not, at your Lover's Coft,

O! Cloe, let not India boaft,

That, with new Luftre, he can deck
The Native Beauties of your Neck:

Whate'er is pretty, may be seen

Underneath that gaudy Skreen;

Where the World, in Type, appears,

Lovely, Lucid Hemispheres,

The World! of all my Hopes and Fears;

Where Azure Lines a-crofs do stray,
And wanton, in their Milky-way;

And where, my Eyes could, ever, rove,
And look, and long, and feed on Love.

Fooli India! fend no more Faint and languid Colours o'er; Paintings! brighter, livelier, far, Nature's Pencil, has drawn, here: All the Glories of the Eaft, Crowded are, in Cloe's Breaft.

Aurora, when we fee her rife,

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And streak, with Red, the dawning Skies,

Does a Blush, lefs beauteous, wear,devik
Than that Maiden-Colour, here;

Which oft, thro' Modefty, is seen,

Never from a Guilt within.

Whofe