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DEDICATORY EPISTLE to the Rev. Alexander Dyce

LIFE OF PARNELL, by the Rev. John Mitford

To the Right Hon. Robert, Earl of Oxford, and Earl

Mortimer

Hesiod; or, The Rise of Woman......

Song, "When thy beauty appears"

Song, "Thyrsis, a young and amorous swain"

Song, "My days have been so wondrous free"

Anacreontic, "When spring came on with fresh

delight"

Anacreontic, Gay Bacchus, liking Estcourt's wine".

A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English style

The Vigil of Venus, written in the time of Julius

Cæsar, and by some ascribed to Catullus

Homer's Batrachomuomachia; or, The Battle of the

Frogs and Mice, Book I..........

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A Translation of part of the First Canto of the Rape of

the Lock, into Leonine Verse, after the manner of the

On Bishop Burnet's being set on Fire in his Closet..... 125

On Mrs. Arabella Fermor leaving London...........

126

Chloris appearing in a Looking-glass............................

127

The Life of Zoilus, and his Remarks on the Battle of

the Frogs and Mice......

129

IGNOSCENDA ISTHÆC AN COGNOSCENDA REARIS
ATTENTO DREPANI PERLEGE JUDICIO
ÆQUANIMUS FIAM TE JUDICE SIVE LEGENDA

SIVE TEGENDA PUTES CARMINA QUÆ DEDIMUS
POSSUM EGO CENSURAM LECTORIS FERRE SEVERI
ET POSSUM MODICA LAUDE PLACERE MIHI.

AUSONIUS C. L. DREPANO PAR. PROL.