ON Receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady FRANCES SHIRLEY A STANDISH AND TWO PENS. ES, I beheld th' Athenian Queen YE Defcend in all her fober charms; "Secure the radiant weapons wield; Aw'd, on my bended knees I fell, And dipt them in the sable Well, The Fount of Fame or Infamy. "What Well? what Weapon? (Flavia cries) "But, Friend, take heed whom you attack; "You'd write as fmooth again on glass, "And run, on ivory, fo glib, "As not to stick at fool or afs, "Nor ftop at Flattery or Fib. "Athenian Queen! and sober charms ! "Come, if you'll be a quiet foul, "Of those that sing of thefe poor eyes." EPISTLE E PIST LE то ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD, AND EARL MORTIMER,. SENT to the Earl of Oxford with Dr. Parnell's Poems published by our Author, after the faid Earl's Imprisonment in the Tower, and Retreat into the Country, in the year 1721. S UCH were the notes thy once-lov'd Poet fung, For him, thou oft haft bid the World attend, Abfent or dead, ftill let a friend be dear, Or, |