PERSONS AND MATTERS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES. The Numerals shew the Book, the Figures the Verse. A. Ambrofe Philips, i. 105. iii. 326. Attila, iii. 92. Alaric, iii. 91. IV. Cowley. The Garden, Cowley. Weeping, Vertumnus and Pomona, from Ovid's Metamorphofes, I. Chaucer, Imitations of English Poets. II. Spenfer. The Alley, III. Waller. On a Lady finging to her Lute, Page II ib. 13 Waller. On a Fan of the Author's Design, in which was painted V. E. of Rochefter. On Silence, ib. VI. E. of Dorfet. Artemifia, 17 E. of Dorfet. Pryne, 18 VII. Dr. Swift. The happy Life of a Country Parfon, 19 Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue to the Satires, Book I. Epistle VII. Imitated in the Manner of Dr. Swift, Epistle I. To Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, 1721, 153 154 noy's Art of Painting, ib. Epistle IV. To Miss Blount, with the Works of Voiture, 1717, 157 Epiftle V. To the fame, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation, 1715, 159 Epistle VI. To Mr. John Moore, Author of the celebrated Worm- Powder, 160 Epiale VII. To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-Day, 161 162 Epiate VIII. To Mr. Thomas Southern on his Birth-Day, 1742, Mifcellanies. The Baffet-Table. An Eclogue, 163 166 Verbatim from Boileau, Answer to a Question of Mrs. Howe, Occafioned by fome Verses of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham. ib. ib. Page On receiving from the Rt. Hon. Lady Frances Shirley, a Standish ib. Epitaphs. 1. On Charles Earl of Dorfet, in the Church of Withyam in Suffex, 173 II. On Sir William Trumball, one of the principal Secretaries of State to King William III. who died 1716, III. On the Hon. Simon Harcourt, only Son of the Lord Chancellor 173 VI. On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her Breaft, VII. On the Monument of the Hon. Robert Digby, and of his fister Mary, in the Church of Sherborne, in Dorfettshire, 1727, VIII. On Sir Godfrey Kneller, in Westminster-Abbey, 1723, IX. On General Henry Withers, in Westminster-Abbey, 1729, ib. XII. 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