CHE FURMETARY : A VERY INNOCENT AND HARMLESS The Skillet 297 Rufinus ; or, the Favourite. Imitated from Just as you please; or, the Incurious ib. The Eagle and the Robin, an Apologue. Trans- lated from the Original of Æsop 289 Upon a Giant's Angling .... Robin Red-breast, with the Beasts, an old Advice to Horace, to take his leave of Trinity Britain's Palladium; or, Lord Bolingbroke's 293 Epigram.-Who could believe that a fine To the Duke of Beaufort. A Paraphrase on Naudæus's Address to Cardinal de Bagni ... 295 Epigram.-Sam Wills had view'd Kate Bets, a To Mr. Carter, Steward to the Lord Carteret. 303 Song.—You say you love; repeat again ib. Ad Amicum To Laura. In Imitation of Petrarch ib. Translation from Tasso, Canto iii. St. 3. 304 To the right hon. the late Earl of his disputing publicly at Christ Church, Thame and Isis ib. ib. I waked, speaking these out of a Dream in the A Gentleman to his Wife....... ib. The stumbling Block. From Claudian's Ru- The Soldier's Wedding. A Soliloquy by Nan finus Thrasherwell. Being Part of a Play, called The Garden Plot, 1709 ib. Epistle to Mr. Goddard; written by Dr. King, The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson........ 309, On his Mistress drown'd......... 313 The Plague of Athens, which happened in the To the happy Memory of the late Lord Pro second Year of the Peloponnesian War ... ib, 315 Upon the Poems of the English Ovid, Anacreon, 'To a Person of Honour (Mr. Edward Howard), Pindar, and Virgil, Abraham Cowley, in upon his incomparable, incomprehensible Imitation of his own Pindaric Odes ........... 326 Poem, entituled, The British Princes 318 Epigram on a Pigmy's Death.... The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ......... 331 Written at Althrop, in a blank Leaf of Wal- On the Death of his most sacred Majesty King ler's Poems, upon seeing Vandyke's Picture 335 of the old Lady Sunderland Ode on the Marriage of the Princess Anne and Verses written for the toasting Glasses of the 341 Latin Ode on the same Occasion 337 On the Countess Dowager of The Man of Honour. Occasioned by a Post Verses by Lord Halifax, Prom Dr. Z. Grey's An Epistle to Charles Earl of Dorset, occa On Orpheus and Signora Francisca Margarita ib. The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ....... .... 345 Deborah 377 Hannah 380 Hesiod : or, the Rise of Woman.... Song.–When thy beauty appears.... Song.–Thyris, a young and amorous swain ... ib. Hezekiah Song.-Love and Innocence ......... A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English Style 353 | Hymn for Evening ib. 402 ib. The Convert's Love....... ib. On divine Love; by meditating on the Wounds On Queen Anne's Peace. (Written in December A Translation of Part of the first Canto of the To Dr. Swift, on his Birth-day, November 30, Rape of the Lock, into Leonine Verse, after the Manner of the ancient Monks. ib. On Bishop Burnet's being set on Fire in his ib. On Mrs. Arabella Fermor leaving London. ib. ib. Riddle.-Upon a bed of humble clay An Imitation of some French Verses.. ib. Epigram.—The greatest gifts that nature does ib. On the Castle of Dublin, 1715 Bacchus; or, the drunken Metamorphosis ... 368 Chloris appearing in a Looking-Glass.. 412 369 On a Lady with foul Breath Dr. Donne's third Satire versified ib. On the number Three....... 371 Essay on the different styles of Poetry. To POEMS OF GARTH. The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson..... 419 Canto IV. Claremont: addressed to the right hon. the Earl of Clare, afterwards Duke of New- To Dr.Garth, upon the Dispensary, by C. Boyle 429 castle To my Friend the Author, desiring my Opinion To the Lady. Louisa Lenox: with Ovid's Epis- of his Poem. By Chr. Codrington To my Friend Dr. Garth, the Author of the To Richard Earl of Burlington, with Ovid's To my Friend, upon the Dispensary. By H. To the Dutchess of Bolton, on her staying all To the Duke of Marlborough, on his voluntary II. 433 On ber Majesty's Statue in St. Paul's Church THE DISPENSARY. A POEM IN SIX CANTOS. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ORMOND. MY LORD, Anno 1699. Some estates are held in England, by paying a fine at the change of every lord: I have enjoyed the patronage of your family, from the time of your excellent grandfather to this present day. ' I have dedicated the translation of the lives of Plutarch to the first duke; and have celebrated the memory of your heroic father. Though I am very short of the age of Nestor, yet I have lived to a third generation of your house, and, by your grace's favour, am admitted still to hold from you by the same tenure. I am not vain enough to boast, that I have deserved the value of so illustrious a line; but my fortune is the greater, that, for three descents, they have been pleased to distinguish my poems from those of other men, and have accordingly made me their peculiar care. May it be permitted me to say, that, as your grandfather and father were cherished and adorned with honours by two successive monarchs, so I have been esteemed and patronized by the grandfather, the father, and the son, descended from one of the most ancient, most conspicuous, and most deserving families in Europe. It is true, that by delaying the payment of my last fine, when it was due by your grace's accession to the titles and patrimonies of your house, I may seem, in rigour of law, to have made a forfeiture of my claim ; yet my heart has always been devoted to your service: and since you have been graciously pleased, by your permission of this address, to accept the tender of my duty, it is not yet too late to lay these volumes at your feet. The world is sensible that you worthily succeed, not only to the honours of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. The long chain of magnanimity, courage, easiness of access, and desire of doing good even to the prejudice of your fortune, is so far from being broken in your grace, that the precious metal yet runs pure to the newest link of it; which I will not call the last, |