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13 WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act v., sc. i.

25 Troilus and Cressida, Act iii., sc. ii.

27 Cymbeline, Act. iv., sc. ii.

29 Hamlet, Act i., sc. iii.

30 ROBERT SOUTHWELL. Look Home

33 EDWARD VERE. Fancy and Desire

34 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. The passionate Shepherd to his Love

35 SAMUEL DANIEL.

Richard the Second, the morning before his murder
in Pomfret Castle

36 GILES FLETCHER. Mercy dwelling in Heaven, and pleading for the

Guilty, with Justice described by her Qualities. 37 Mercy brightening the Rainbow

38 The Palace of Presumption .

40 PHINEAS FLETCHER. Happiness of the Shepherd's Life

42 THOMAS LODGE. Rosader's Sonetto

43 Rosalind's Madrigal

44 LORD VAUX

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Pago Aspatia

46 Sleep

48 Melancholy

48 GEORGE HERBERT

49 MICHAEL DRAYTON.

Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine 49

The Lady Geraldine to Henry Howard, earl of Surrey 54 THOMAS MIDDLETON. Leantio's Approach to his Home .

57 BENJAMIN JONSON. From Cynthia's Revels

58 From the Silent Woman

58 Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, sister to Philip Sidney :

59 On Lucy, countess of Bedford

59 To Celia

59 Song of Night

60 Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.

60 SIR HENRY WOTTON

61 WILLIAM DRUMMOND. Sonnets

62-64 CATHARINE PHILLIPS. The Inquiry

64 JAMES SHIRLEY. Death

66 WILLIAM STRODE. Music

67 SIMON WASTELL. Man.

67 ROBERT HERRICK. Song

68 To Meadows

69 The Night-Piece, to Julia

69 To Blossoms

70 The Country Life

70 ABRAHAM COWLEY. The Motto .

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74 The Complaint

75 The Wish.

79 The Praise of Poetry

80 Of Solitude

81 GEORGE WITHER

83 DR. HENRY KING. Sic Vita

87 The Dirge

87 JOHN MILTON. L'Allegro

88 Il Penseroso

92 Lycidas

97 Comus Paradise Lost

132 Address to Light

149 Eve's Dream

150 From Paradise Regained

156 ANDREW MARVELL. Bermudas.

158 The Nymph complaining for the Death of her Fawn 159 The Garden

162 ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA. Retreat

164 SAMUEL BUTLER. .Hudibras

166 EDMUND WALLER.

Song :
HENRY VAUGHAN.
Early Rising and Prayer

. 172 The Timber

173 The Rainbow

174 The Wreath

174 JOHN DRYDEN.

Alexander's Feast
Character of Shaftesbury
Character of Zimri

180 Description of Lycurgus king of Thrace, and of Emetrius king of Inde

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183 From the Flower and the Leaf

• 186 Religio Laici

. 190 JOHN POMFRET. The Choice

195 THOMAS PARNELL. A Night-Piece on Death

· 199 The Hermit

202 Piety, or the Vision Hymn to Contentment

. 211 JOHN PHILLIPS. The Splendid Shilling :

214 JOSEPH ADDISON. A Letter from Italy

218 Paraphrase on Psalm xxiii.

222 An Ode

222 MATTHEW PRIOR. The Chameleon

224 Protogenes and Apelles

225 To the Hon. Charles Montague, Esq.

228 JOHN GAY. A Welcome from Greece. To Mr. Pope

229 THOMAS TICKELL. Colin and Lucy.

234 To the Earl

of Warwick on the Death of Mr. Addison 236 ALEXANDER POPE. The Messiah

239 Ode on Solitude

242 Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady .243 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

245 Epilogue to the Satires

256 Epistle to Robert earl of Oxford, and Earl of Mortimer 263 JONATHAN SWIFT. On Poetry

264 THOMAS WARTON. Retirement

275 ROBERT BLAIR. From “ The Grave"

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The Castle of Indolence ISAAC WATTS.

Few Happy Matches AMBROSE PHILLIPS.

A Fragment of Sappho
WILLIAM COLLINS.

Ode
Ode to Evening

The Passions
JOHN DYER.

Grongar Hill EDWARD YOUNG.

Uncertainty of Human Happiness

Complaint for Narcissa MARK AKENSIDE.

From the Pleasures of Imagination DAVID MALLETT.

William and Margaret WILLIAM SHENSTONE.

Ode to Memory CHARLES WESLEY.

Hymn of Praise

Communion with God THOMAS CHATTERTON.

Mynstrelle's Song TOBIAS SMOLLETT.

Ode to Independence JOHN CUNNINGHAM.

May-Eve, or Kate of Aberdeen JOHN LANGHORNE.

Owen of Carron
THOMAS GRAY.

Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College
The Progress of Poesy
Hymn to Adversity
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard