When Heaven had You and gracious Anna * made, It but kept up to these, nor could do more If in dear Burghley's generous face we fee } With all that world of charms, which foon will move That thought can fancy, or that Heaven can form ; So when the parent-fun, with genial beams, He fees himself improv'd, while every ftone, Eldeft daughter of the Countefs.. So when great Rhea many births had given, And to what God foe'er men altars rais'd, Honouring the offspring, they the mother prais'd. In fhort-liv'd charms let others place their joys. To men unborn and ages yet to live: "Twould ftill be wonderful, and still be new, } A FABLE, from PHÆDRUS. HE Fox an actor's vizard found, THE And peer'd, and felt, and turn'd it round; Then threw it in contempt away, And thus old Phædrus heard him fay: "What noble part canft thou sustain, "Thou fpecious head without a brain?" CONTENTS On Exodus iii. 14. "I am that I am," an Ode. Confiderations on Part of the 88th Pfalm, To Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely, who had recom- To the Countefs of Dorfet. Written in her To the Lady Durfley, on the fame Subject. To my Lord Buckhurft, very young, playing with To the Honourable Charles Montague, Efq. Latin Verfes on Dr. Shaw's taking a Degree. Ode, in Imitation of Horace, 3 Od. ii. Love and Friendship: a Paftoral. By Mrs. Eli- zabeth Singer, afterwards Rowe, To the Author of the foregoing Pastoral. To a Lady, fhe refufing to continue a Difpute with me, and leaving me in the Argument: an Celia to Damon. An Ode prefented to the King, on His Majesty's Ode fur la Prife de Namur par les Armes du Roi, l'Année 1692, par Monfieur Boileau Defpreaux. 84 |