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On the Death of Mifs J. M.

XI.

"Qung, 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 fpare
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 reft,
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.

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To D. WRAY, Efq.

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WRAY, whofe dear friendship in the dawning years

Of undefigning Childhood first began,

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

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

Me moderate talents and a small estate
Fit for Retirement's unambitious fhade,
Nor envy I who near approach the throne:
But joyful fee thee mingle with the Great,
See thy deferts with due diftinction paid,
And praife thy lot, contented with my own.

To the Right Hon. Mr. ONSLOW 2, with the foregoing

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HOU, who fucceffive in that honour'd feat

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

To check the boift'rous force of party rage,

Raife modeft 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 fcarce inferior numbers can relate:

Amid this feaft of Mind, when Fancy's Child,

Sweet SHAKSPEARE, raps the foul to virtuous deed,
When SPENSER, warbling tunes his Doric lays,
Or the first Man from Paradife exil'd

Great MILTON fings, can aught my ruftic reed

Prefume to found, that may deferve thy praise?

a Arthur Onflow, Efq; Speaker of the House of Commons, after-
wards Lord Onflow.

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To Mifs Lucy Fortescue

To the Same, with Hammond's Elegies

To the Same

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ibid.

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To the Same

A Prayer to Venus, in her Temple at Stowe
To the Same. On her pleading Want of Time

To the Same

To the Same

To the Same, with a new Watch

An Irregular Ode, written at Wickham in 1746
To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody.
Verfes, making Part of an Epitaph on the same Lady

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On the Abuse of Travelling. A Canto in Imitation of Spenfer.

By Mr. Weft

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

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The Danger of Writing Verfe. By W. Whitehead, Efq; 249

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