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 Thus Raleigh, thus immortal Sidney fhone (Illuftrious names) in great Elifa's days. Nor doubt his promise firm, that fuch who own His glorious truth, fuch he will crown with praife, SON SONNET XI. Oung, fair, and good! ah why should young and fair 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, Light lie the earth upon thy lovely breast; To thy dear mem'ry confecrate this verse, SON SONNET XII. whose dear friendship in the dawning years W Of undefigning Childhood first began, Through Youth's gay morn with even tenor ran, Rightly doft thou, in whom combin'd appears Me moderate talents and a small eftate SON- 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, In scarce inferior numbers can relate : Amid this feast of Mind, when Fancy's Child, Great MILTON fings, can ought my ruftic reed INDEX INDEX to the Second Volume. HE Progrefs of Love. In four Eclogues 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 Page 1 16 19 25 31 34 Ode in Imitation of Paftor Fido 51 Part of an Elegy of Tibullus Song Verfes written at Mr. Pope's To Mr. Weft at Wickham To Mifs Lucy F To the fame, with Hammond's Elegies To the Same 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. 80 The Inftitution of the Order of the Garter. By the Same 195 61 63 ibid. 64 65 67 79 |