And, mixing with buffoons and pimps prophane,
Tainted the Stage, for fome fmall fnip of gain.
For they, like harlots, under bawds profeft,
Took all th' ungodly pains, and got the leaft.
Thus did the thriving malady prevail,
The court its head, the Poets but the tail.
The fin was of our native growth, 'tis true;
The fcandal of the fin was wholly new.
Miffes they were, but modeftly conceal'd;
White-hall the naked Venus firft reveal'd.
Who ftanding as at Cyprus, in her shrine,
The ftrumpet was ador'd with rites divine.
Ere this, if faints had any fecret motion,
'Twas chamber-practice all, and close devotion
I pass the peccadillos of their time;
Nothing but open lewdness was a crime.
A monarch's blood was venial to the nation,
Compar'd with one foul act of fornication.
Now, they would filence us, and shut the door,
That let in all the bare-fac'd vice before.
As for reforming us, which fome pretend,
That work in England is without an end:
Well may we change, but we fhall never mend.
Yet, if you can but bear the present Stage,
We hope much better of the coming age.
What would you fay, if we should first begin
To ftop the trade of love behind the scene:
Where actreffes make bold with married men?
For while abroad so prodigal the dolt is,
Poor spouse at home as ragged as a colt is.

In fhort, we'll grow as moral as we can,
Save here and there a woman or a man:
But neither you, nor we, with all our pains,
Can make clean work; there will be fome remains,
While you have ftill your Oats, and we our Hains.

OF THE

NINETEENTH VOLUME.

THE

HE Hind and the Panther, in three Parts.

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Part III.

Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Prince, born on
the 10th of June, 1688
Mac-Flecnoe

EPISTLES.

Epiftle I. To Sir Robert Howard

II. To Dr. Charleton

III. To the Lady Castlemain

IV. To Mr. Lee

V. To the Earl of Rofcommon

VI. To the Duchefs of York

VII. A Letter to Sir George Etherege

VIII. To Mr. Southerne

IX. To Henry Higden, Efq.

X. To Mr. Congreve

XI. To Mr. Granville

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XII. To Mr. Motteaux

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XIII. To John Dryden, Efq. of Chesterton 144
XIV. To Sir Godfrey Kneller

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ELEGIES

ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS.

1. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

II. To the pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew 159

III. Upon the Death of the Earl of Dundee

IV. Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem, dedicated to

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the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon 167

V. On the Death of Amyntas
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VI. On the Death of a very young Gentleman 189

VII. Upon young Mr. Rogers of Gloucestershire

VIII. On the Death of Mr. Purcell

IX. Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore

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ibid.

X. Epitaph on Sir Palmes Fairbones' Tomb

XI. Under Milton's Picture

XII. On the Monument of a fair Maiden Lady

XIII. Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Pafton

XIV. On the Monument of the Marquis of Win-
chefter

XVI. Intended for Dryden's Wife

XVII. On the Duchefs of Portsmouth's Picture
XVIII. Description of old Jacob Tonfon

SONGS, ODES, and a MASQUE.

ibid.

XV. Epitaph upon the Earl of Rochester's being

difmiffed from the Treasury

1. The Fair Stranger

II. On the young Statesmen

III. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

IV. The Tears of Amynta

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V. A Song

VI. The Lady's Song

VII, A Song

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