MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

OLIVER GOLDSMITH, M.B.

INCLUDING

A VARIETY OF PIECES

NOW FIRST COLLECTED.

BY

JAMES PRIOR,

FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES; MEMBER OF THE
ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY;

AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF GOLDSMITH, LIFE OF BURKE,

ETC. ETC.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXVII.

Printed by J. L. Cox and SONS, 75, Great Queen Street,

Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

THE HAUNCH OF VENISON; A POETICAL EPISTLE TO

LORD CLARE

......

71

THE CAPTIVITY; AN ORATORIO. [Now printed from the
original MS. in Goldsmith's hand-writing]

RETALIATION

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

The Clown's Reply....

111

Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet Laberius, a

Roman Knight, whom Cæsar forced upon the stage.

Preserved by Macrobius.........

ib.

The Logicians Refuted. In Imitation of Dean Swift... 112

200757

Epigram on a Beautiful Youth, struck blind by Light-

Stanzas on the taking of Quebec, and Death of General

PAGE

114

115

Stanzas. "Weeping, murmuring, complaining."......
... ib.

The Gift. To Iris .......

116

An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize... 117

Description of an Author's Bed-chamber .................. 118

Song, "O Memory! thou fond deceiver!"

Song. "The Wretch condemn'd with Life to part."...... ib.

The Double Transformation. A Tale

A New Simile. In the manner of Swift

120

121

... 125

.....

130

Epilogue to the Comedy of "The Sister'

Verses, in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Sir George

Baker's. [Now first printed]

.....

132

134

135

137

Epilogue to the Comedy of "The Good-Natured Man."

Prologue to the Tragedy of " Zobeide"

An Epilogue, intended for Mrs. Bulkley

Threnodia Augustalis; sacred to the Memory of Her

Royal Highness, the Princess Dowager of Wales... 139

Letter, in Prose and Verse, to Mrs. Bunbury. [Now

first printed]...........

149

Epilogue to the Comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer;

or the Mistakes of a Night"....

158

Epilogue to the Comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer;"

intended to be spoken by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss

Epilogue; spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes, in the Character

of Harlequin, at his benefit

159