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To Mr. Creech on his Tranflation of Lucretius

Virgil's Fifth Eclogue

126

128

To Mr. Waller; upon the Copy of Verses made by himself on the last Copy in his Book

A Song

A Song

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136

A Song

To Mr. Henry Dickinson, on his Tranflation of "Simon's Critical History of the Old Teftament" 137 To Mr. Dryden, on his "Troilus and Creffida" 138 Paris to Helen. Tranflated from Ovid's Epiftles 140 The Epiftle of Acontius to Cydippe. Tranflated from Ovid

The Fourth Satire of Juvenal

Damon and Alexis

Cælia and Dorinda

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Cælia's Soliloquy

To some disbanded Officers upon the late Vote of the

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"Who for Preferments, &c." imitated in Latin 182

POEMS

POE M S

BY THE

EARL OF DORSE T.

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NOME on, ye Critics, find one fault who dares ;

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For read it backward, like a witch's prayers,
'T will do as well; throw not away your jests
On folid nonfenfe that abides all tefts.

Wit, like tierce-claret, when 't begins to pall,
Neglected lies, and 's of no ufe at all,
But, in its full perfection of decay,
Turns vinegar, and comes again in play.
Thou haft a brain, fuch as it is indeed;
On what else should thy worm of fancy feed?

Yet

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