And for all this can give no reason why : This is an holy-fifter, verily. THE FORCE OF LOVE. PRESERVED FROM AN OLD MANUSCRIPT. THROW an apple up a hill, Down the apple tumbles still; Roll it down, it never stops Till within the vale it drops : So are all things prone to Love, Down the mountain flows the stream, Nought below, and nought above, Metals Metals grow within the mine, Lufcious grapes upon the vine; Still the needle marks the pole ; 'Tis a truth as clear, that Love Man is born to live and die, Does the cedar love the mountain ? Thus by Nature all things move, Should you this deny, you '11 As the wencher loves a lafs, prove A a 2 When When young maidens courtship shun, Then fhali Nature ceafe to Love. E PIG RAM, ON THE POWER OF LOVE. BY MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY. N. B. This is delivered down by tradition as a production of that celebrated poet; and was spoken at the Weftminster-School election, on the following fubjects. "Nullis amor eft medicabilis herbis." OVID. OL Daphne fees, and feeing her admires, Had any remedy for Love been known, CON To the Right Worshipful, my very loving Master Mr. 37 46 47 49 Pyramus SYLVA OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES MADE UPON SUNDRY OCCASIONS. An Elegy on the death of the Right Honourable Dudley Lord Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, late Principal Secretary of State An Elegy on the death of my loving friend and cou- To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr A. B. 79 An Elegy on the Death of John Lyttleton, Efquire, Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Lyttleton, who was A Tranflation of Verfes upon the Bleffed Virgin, |