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SONNET XI.

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

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And good be huddled in untimely grave?

Must so sweet flow'r fo brief a period have,

Just 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 oppress'd

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

SON

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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 strike out a larger plan,
No useless friend to Senators and Peers:

Me moderate talents and a small estate

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 distinction paid,
And praise thy lot, contented with my own.

SON

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THOU,

Prefid'st, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'swage,

To check the boift'rous force of Party rage,
Raise 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 feast of Mind, when Fancy's Child,
Sweet SHAKESPEAR, 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 deserve thy praise?

INDEX

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Epigrams

The Danger of Writing Verfe. By W. Whitehead,

Tothe Honourable ***

To Mr. Garrick

Nature, to Dr. Hoadly

The Youth and the Philofopher

Ode to a Gentleman on his pitching a Tent, &c:

On a Meffage Card

The Je ne fcai Quoi

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319

Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College. By Mr. Gray 320
Ode

Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat

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325
328

Monody on the Death of 2 Caroline. By R. Weft, Efq; 331
A Pipe of Tobacco, in Imitation of fix feveral Authors
Ode to the Hon. C. Y.

From Cælia to Cloe

On a Fit of the Gout

An Ode of Horace

The Female Right to Literature

On Shakespear's Monument at Stratford upon Avon

A Song

Chiswick

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The Indifferent, from the Italian of Metaftafio

The Triumph of Indifference, an Ode

The Shepherd's Farewel to his Love

Riddles

Audivere, Lyce, &c.

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A Sonnet, imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega
Sonnets

The END of VOL. II.

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