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To the Author of Obfervations on the Converfion and

Apostleship of St. PAUL.

***, great meed fhalt thou receive,

Ο

Great meed of fame, thou and thy learn'd compeer, Who 'gainft the fceptic's doubt, and fcorner's fneer, Affert those heav'n-born truths, which you believe.

In elder time thus heroes wont t'atchieve
Renown, they held the faith of JESUS dear,
And round their ivy-crown, or laurel'd spear,
Blush'd not religion's olive branch to weave.

Thus Raleigh, thus immortal Sidney fhone

(Illuftrious names) in great Elifa's days.

Nor doubt his promise firm, that fuch who own
In evil times, undaunted, though alone,

His glorious truth, fuch he will crown with praife,
And glad agnize before his Father's throne.

SON

SONNET XI.

Oung, fair, and good! ah why should young and fair

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And good be huddled in untimely grave?

Muft fo fweet flow'r fo brief a period have,

Juft bloom and charm, then fade and disappear?

Yet our's the lofs, who ill alas can spare

The bright example, which thy virtues gave;

The guerdon thine, whom gracious heav'n did fave From longer trial in this vale of care.

Reft then, sweet faint, in peace and honour rest,
While our true tears bedew thy maiden hearse,

Light lie the earth upon thy lovely breast;
And let a grateful heart with grief opprefs'd

To thy dear mem'ry confecrate this verse,
Though all too mean for who deferves the best.

SON

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SONNET XII.

whose dear friendship in the dawning years

W Of undefigning Childhood first began,

Through Youth's gay morn with even tenor ran,
My noon conducted, and my evening chears,

Rightly doft thou, in whom combin'd appears
Whate'er for Public Life completes the Man,
With active Zeal strike out a larger plan,
No useless friend to Senators and Peers:

Me moderate talents and a small eftate
Fit for Retirement's unambitious shade,
Nor envy
I who near approach the throne;
But joyful see thee mingle with the Great,
See thy deferts with due diftinction paid,
And praise thy lot, contented with my own.

SON-

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THO

Prefid'ft, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'fwage,

To check the boift'rous force of Party rage,

Raise modest worth, and guide the high debate,

Sometimes retiring from the toils of State,
Thou turn'ft th' inftructive Greek or Roman page,
Or what our British Bards of later age

In scarce inferior numbers can relate :

Amid this feast of Mind, when Fancy's Child,
Sweet SHAKESPEAR, raps the foul to virtuous deed,
When SPENSER warbling tunes his Doric lays,
Or the firft Man from Paradife exil'd

Great MILTON fings, can ought my ruftic reed
Prefume to found, that may deferve thy praise?

INDEX

INDEX to the Second Volume.

HE Progrefs of Love. In four Eclogues
Soliloquy of a Beauty

Blenheim

Epiftle to Dr. Ayfcough

Epiftle to Mr. Poyntz

Verfes under Mr. Poyntz's Picture

Epiftle to Mr. Pope

Epiftle to my Lord ***

Advice to a Lady

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Ode in Imitation of Paftor Fido

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Part of an Elegy of Tibullus

Song

Verfes written at Mr. Pope's
Epigram

To Mr. Weft at Wickham

To Mifs Lucy F

To the fame, with Hammond's Elegies

To the Same

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To the Same

A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe

To the Same.

ibid.

60

To the Same

To the Same

On her pleading want of Time

To the fame with a new Watch

An Irregular Ode writ at Wickham in 1746

To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody.
Verfes, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame Lady
On the Abufe of Travelling. A Canto in Imitation of
Spenfer. By Mr. Weft

80

The Inftitution of the Order of the Garter. By the Same 195

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ibid.

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