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SONG.

HEN Fanny blooming fair
Firft caught my ravish'd fight,
Struck with her shape and air,
I felt a strange delight:
Whilft eagerly I gaz'd,
Admiring ev'ry part,
And ev'ry feature prais'd,

She stole into my heart.

In her bewitching eyes

Ten thousand loves appear;

There Cupid basking lies,

His fhafts are hoarded there.

Her blooming cheeks are dy'd
With colour all their own,

Excelling far the pride
Of rofes newly blown.

Her well-turn'd limbs confefs

The lucky hand of Jove;

Her features all exprefs

The beauteous queen of love:

What

What flames my nerves invade,
When I behold the breast
Of that too charming maid
Rife, fuing to be prefs'd!

Venus round Fanny's waist,
Has her own Cestus bound,
With guardian Cupids grac❜d,
Who dance the circle round.
How happy must he be,

Who fhall her zone unloofe!

That blifs to all, but me,

May heaven and she refuse.

SON

G.

7Henever, Chloe, I begin

WH

Your heart, like mine, to move,

You tell me of the crying fin

Of unchafte lawless love.

How can that paffion be a fin,

Which gave to Chloe birth? How can thofe joys but be divine,

Which make a heaven on earth?

Το

To wed, mankind the priest trepann'd,

By fome fly fallacy,

And disobey'd God's great command,

Increase and multiply.

You fay that love's a crime; content:
Yet this allow you muft,

More joy's in heav'n if one repent,
Than over ninety just.

Sin then, dear girl, for heaven's fake,

Repent and be forgiven;
Bless me, and by repentance make

A holy day in heav'n.

INDEX to the First Volume.

Α

Poem to his Excellency the Lord Privy Seal on the

A Prospect of Peace

To the Right Hon. the Earl of Warwick, &c.

Colin and Lucy

An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus, from Horace,
Book III. Ode XXV.

To Sir Godfrey Kneller at his Country Seat

On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan

Page 3

22

26

30

34

36

38

41

An Ode infcrib'd to the Right Hon. the Earl of Sunderland
at Windfor

Kenfington Garden

An Epifle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at

Avignon

The Female Reign, an Ode

Six Town Eclogues

The Lover. A Ballad. To Mr. C

61

69

82

105

The Lady's Refolve. Written Extempore on a Window 107

Pre-Existence. A Poem, in Imitation of Milton

146

147

150

152

153

158

Chiron to Achilles. A Poem

ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ. Know your felf

London:

180 Arbuthnot

186 T

a Poem, in Imitation of the third Satire of

Juvenal
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the Opening
Theatre in Drury-lane, 1747.

Of Active and Retir'd Life, an Epiftle to H. C. Efq
Grongar Hill

The Ruins of Rome.

A Poem

241 Shane v

The School-Miftrefs, a Poem, in Imitation of Spenfer
The Art of Politicks, in Imitation of Horace's Art of
Poetry

256

The Man of Tafte. Occafion'd by an Epifile of Mr. Pope's on that Subject

An Effay on Converfation

286

298 Still-plest

Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Col. Charles Rofs, in the
Action at Fontenoy. Written May, 1745

Ode written in the fame Year

Ode to Evening

321

324

325

Verfes written on a Blank Leaf, by Lord Lanfdown,

when he prefented his Works to the Queen, 1732 327

Advice 10 a Lady in Autumn

328

On a Lady's drinking the Bath-Waters

329

Verfes in a Lady's Sherlock

330

Song

331

Song

332

The EN D of VOL. I.