If to be fad is to be wife;

I do most heartily despise
Whatever Socrates has faid,

*

Or Tully writ, or Wanley read.

Dear Drift †, to fet our matters right, Remove these papers from my fight; Burn Mat' Def-cart', and Ariftotle : Here! Jonathan, your mafter's bottle,

* Humphrey Wanley, librarian to the Earl of Oxford. Mr. Prior's Secretary and Executor.

CON

CONTENTS

то тиНЕ

FIRST

VOLUME.

ON

N Exodus III. 14. I am that I am, an Ode.

Written in 1688, as an exercise at St. John's

College, Cambridge.

Page 1

To the Countess of Exeter playing on the lute

Picture of Seneca dying in a bath, by Jordain,

at the right honourable the Earl of Exeter's

at Burleigh houfe.

An Ode.

An Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd, Efq;

To the Countess of Dorfet.

ton. By Mr. Bradbury.

Written in her Mil-

To the Lady Durfley, on the same subject.

To my Lord Buckhurst, very young, playing with

a cat.

6

9

10

13

20

21

An Ode.

A Song.

The Despairing Shepherd.

To the honourable Charles Montague, Efq;

22

23

24

ib.

26

Hymn

Hymn to the Sun, fet by Dr. Purcel, and intended to be fung before their majesties on new year's day, 1694.

The Lady's Looking-Glafs.

Love and Friendship: a Paftoral. By Mrs. Elizabeth Singer.

To the author of the foregoing paftoral.

To a lady, fhe refufing to continue a difpute
with me, and leaving me in the argument:
An Ode.

Seeing the Duke of Ormond's picture at Sir
Godfrey Kneller's.

Celia to Damon.

An Ode prefented to the king, on his majesty's arrival in Holland, after the queen's death, 1695.

In imitation of Anacreon.

An Ode.

28

32

34

37

39

41

44

49

57

58

Ode fur la prife de Namur par les armes du roy, l'Année, 1692. Par Monf. Boileau Defpreaux. 60 An English Ballad on the taking of Namur by the king of Great-Britain, 1695. Prefented to the King at his arrival in Holland,

after the discovery of the confpiracy, 1696.

61

76

80

81

84 86

87

90

Veņus

The lady who offers her looking-glafs to Venus. 108

Cloe jealous.

Anfwer to Cloe jealous, in the fame style; the

author fick.

A better anfwer.

Pallas and Venus: an Epigram.

109

III

112

114

To a young gentleman in love. A Tale.

115

Paulo Purganti and his wife: an honest, but a

fimple pair.

128

The Ladle.

134

Written at Paris, 1700: in the beginning of

Robe's Geography.

141

By Monfieur Fontenelle.

Imitated.

A paffage in the Moriæ Encomium of Erasmus.
Imitated.

To Dr. Sherlock, on his practical difcourfe con-

145

146

ibid.

cerning death.

148

Carmen Seculare, for the year 1700: to the

King.

151

Carmen Seculare, Latinè redditum per Tho.

Dibben, è Trin. Col. Cantab.

An Ode infcribed to the memory of the honou-

rable Colonel George Villiers, drowned in

the river Piava, in the country of Friuli,

In Imitation of Horace.

1703.

XXVIII. lib. I.

173

Ode

194

199

Prologue spoken at court before the Queen on

her Majesty's birth-day, 1704.

A letter to Monfieur Boileau Defpreaux, occa-

fioned by the victory at Blenheim, 1704.

For the plan of a fountain, &c.

The Chamelion.

201

209

210