Suffice it to rehearse the pains
Of bleeding nymphs, and dying swains;
Nor dare to wield the shafts of Love,
That wound the gods, and conquer jove.

I yield! adieu the lofty strain !
I am Anacreon once again :
Again the melting song I play,
Attemper’d to the vocal lay:
See! see! how with attentive ears
The youths imbibe the nectar'd airs !
And quaff, in lowery shades reclin'd,
My precepts, to regale the mind.

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THE Preface

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Of Criticism,

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of partial Critics,
Of envious and malicious Critics,

ibid,

The Third Chapter of Habbakkuk paraphrafed. An

Ode. Written in 1710,

IS

To Belinda, on her Sickness, and Recovery,

To Belinda, on her Apron embroider'd with Arms

and Flowers,

Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job. A Para-

phrase,

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Melancholy: An Ode, occafion'd by the Death of
a beloved Daughter, .1723,

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Daphnis and Lycidas. A Pastoral,
The First Ode of Horace translated,
An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Elijah Fenton, Author

of Mariamne, a Tragedy, 1726,
A Dialogue between a Lady and her Looking Glass,
while she had the Green-Sickness,

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The Seat of War in Flanders, &c.

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To the Right Honourable Charles Lorel Cornwallis,

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Baron

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Baron of Eye, Warden, Chief Justice, and Justice in Eyre of all his Majesty's Forests, Chases, Parks

and Warrens on the South Side of Trent, The Rose-Bud : To the Right Honourable the Lady Jane Wharton,

59 Belinda at the Bath,

60 The Coy. An Ode,

61 To the Honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Townshend, afterwards Lady Cornwallis, on her Picture at Rainham,

62 To Mr. Pope, on his Works, 1726, Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer. In the Style of Milton,

68 A Pastoral, to a young Lady upon her leaving, and

return to, the Country, Poverty and Poetry,

88 To a Lady, playing with a Snake,

१० To a Lady of Thirty,

GI On the Birth-day of a Gentleman when three Years

old, The Forty-third Chapter of Ecclefiafticus. A Pa. raphrase,

95 The Conclusion of an Epilogue to Mr. Southern's

last Play, called Money the Mistress, The Parting, a Song, set by Dr. Tudway, Professor of Music in Cambridge,

ibid. On a Flower which Belinda gave me from her Bo

som, The Story of Talus, from the fourth Book of Apollonius Rhodius. V. 1629,

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From the Eleventh Book of the Iliads of Homer.
In the Style of Milton,

107 To Mrs. Eliz. M-t, on her Picture, 1716, Prologue to Mr. Fenton's excellent Tragedy Mariamne,

113 To Mr. A. Pope, who corrected my Verses,

115 Monsieur Maynard imitated. To the Right Honourable the Lord Cornwallis,

117 On a mischievous Woman,

118 The Coquette

ibid. The Widow and Virgin Sisters, being a Letter to the Widow in London,

119 On the Death of my dear Friend Mr, Elijah Fen

ton. 1730, A Poem on Death. To Thomas Marriot, Esq; 126 Courage in Love,

132 The Complaint. Cælia to Damon,

134 The Battle of the Gods and Titans : from the Theogony of Hefiod;

with a Description of Tartarus, &c.

143 The Love of Jason and Medea. From the Third Book, Verse 743, of Apollonius Rhodius,

150 Epiftola ad Amicum Rusticantem, scripta Vere in

eunte Cantab. 1709, Sixteen Odes of Anacreon,

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