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Verses to William Newton, by the same

Ballad, by the same..

418

422

Epitaph, by the same

423

Verses on the Death of Mr. Norris, by the same

424

An Old Cat's Dying Soliloquy, by the same

425

Stanzas addressed to a Young Gentleman, by the same

427

Lines from the Arabick

428

Imitation of Mr. Addison's Poem entitled, Machina Orrereana,

ERRATA,

p. 71, line 12, for "lie" read "lurk”

p. 74, line 19, for

"Burst from the rending ground pale, sulph'rous fires"
read,

"Pale from the ground blue sulph'rous flame aspires"

p. 76, Note, for "questas” and “conera," read “questus” and “conche." p. 78, line 1, for" hords in" read " herds with"

Driginal Poetry.

VOL. III.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

ETHIC EPISTLES,

BY W. PRESTON, ESQ.

SENTIMENT.

EPISTLE SECOND *.

TO A LADY.

Оn form'd alike for Virtue and Delight,
To Reason lovely, as to Fancy bright!
Thy Friend has seen, with fond enquiring eyes,
The hopeful buds of every virtue rise,
Like beauteous plants, that in some happy soil,
With opening flowers repay the gardener's toil.
A prattling infant when you grasp'd my knee,
Oft I foretold what womanhood should be;
Delighted, mark'd your innocence and truth,
In playful childhood, and ingenuous youth;
And saw you rise, mature in virgin charms,
To fill the gazer's heart with fond alarms.
In thought, I saw you, thro' domestic life,
Give the fair pattern of the faultless wife;

For the first Epistle, see P. Register, Vol. 1802, p. 90.

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