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VERSE AND PROSE,

O F

DR. THOMAS PARNELL,

LATE ARCH-DEACON OF CLOGHER.

ENLARGED WITH VARIATIONS AND POEMS,
NOT BEFORE PUBLISH'D.

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PRINTED BY ROBERT & ANDREW FOULIS,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

M.DCC.LXVII.

POEMS

ON

SEVERAL OCCASIONS;

WRITTEN BY

DR. THOMAS PARNELL,

LATE ARCH-DEACON OF CLOGHER:

AND PUBLISH'D BY

MR. PO P E.

DIGNUM LAUDE VIRUM MUSA VETAT MORI.

HOR.

RIGHT HONOURABLE

ROBERT,

EARL OF OXFORD

AND EARL MORTIMER.

SUCH

UCH were the notes thy once lov'd Poet fung, 'Till death untimely ftopt his tuneful tongue. O just beheld, and loft! admir'd, and mourn'd! With foftest manners, gentlest arts, adorn'd! Bleft in each science, bleft in ev'ry strain ! Dear to the Mufe, to HARLEY dear-in vain! For him, thou oft haft bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend; For SWIFT and him, defpis'd the farce of state, The fober follies of the wife and great; Dextrous, the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleas'd to 'scape from flattery to wit.

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ABSENT or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A figh the abfent claims, the dead a tear) Recall thofe nights that clos'd thy toilfome days, Still hear thy PARNELL in his living lays: