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lated. The foft warbler, who fills up a vacancy of thought with a tune, in which the fucceffion of words gives no idea but that of a fucceffion of founds, will here be much difappointed in meeting with the names of Prior, Congreve and Landfdown, instead of Arne, Brent and Tenducci. The midnight roarer of coarfe jeft and obscenity will be ftill farther out of his element. But to those who are enamoured with that facred art, which beyond every other elevates andrefines the foul, to whom the fprightly lyre of Horace and Anacreon, and the melting mufic of Sappho still found, though ages have passed fince they vibrated on the ear, I will venture to promife a fource of enjoyment, from the works of those great mafters whofe names adorn this collection, which I hope they will not think too dearly purchafed by the perufal of fuch introductory matter as is fubmitted to their candid examination.

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H! Chloris, could I now but fit
Ah! the fhepherd's mournful fate
Ah! why muft words my flame reveal
Alexis fhunn'd his fellow fwains
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd
All my paft life is mine no more

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ID me when forty winters more

Bleft as th' immortal Gods is he Boast not, mistaken swain, thy art

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AN love be controul'd by advice

Celia, hoard thy charms no more

Celia, too late you would repent

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AMON if you will believe me

D Daphnis flood penfive in the fhade

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Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure
Dear Colin prevent my warm blushes
Despairing beside a clear stream

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AIR Amoret is gone aftray

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Fair and foft and gay and young

Far in the windings of a vale

Fly, thoughtless youth, th' enchantress fly

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In vain, fond youth, thy tears give o'er

In vain you tell your parting lover

I tell thee, Charmion, could I time retrieve

It is not, Celia, in our power

It was a Friar of orders gray

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ATE when love I feem'd to flight

Let not love on me bestow

Let the ambitious favour find
Love and Folly were at play
Love's a dream of mighty treasure
Love's but the frailty of the mind

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ISTAKEN fair, lay Sherlock by

Mortals, learn your lives to measure
My banks they are furnish'd with bees
My dear mistress has a heart

My love was fickle once and changing

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OT, Celia, that I jufter am

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Now fee my Goddefs, earthly born

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'ER moorlands and mountains rude barren and bare 89

Oft on the troubled ocean's face

Of Leinfter fam'd for maidens fair

Oh turn away thofe cruel eyes

On a bank befide a willow

O Nancy wilt thou go with me

On Belvidera's bofom lying

One morning very early, one morning in the spring

REPAR'D to rail, refolv'd to part

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Pursuing beauty men defcry

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AY, lovely dream, where couldst thou find

S Love
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Say, Myra, why is gentle Love

Say not, Olinda, I despise

She loves and the confeffes too

Should some perverse malignant star

Stella and Flåvia every hour

Strephon has fashion, wit and youth
Strephon, when you see me fly
Swain, thy hopeless passion smother

AELL me no more I am deceiv'd

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Tell me not I my time mispend

Tell my Strephon that I die

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The Graces and the wand'ring Loves

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The heavy hours are almost past

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