CONTENTS O F DUKE'S POE M S. The Fifth Elegy of the First Book of Ovid The Fourth Ode of the Second Book of Horace The Eighth Ode of the Second Book of Horace To the unknown Author of Abfalom and A chitophel 111 An Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Capt. William Bedloe IIZ To Mr. Creech on his Tranflation of Lucretius Virgil's Fifth Eclogue 126 128 To Mr. Waller; upon the Copy of Verfes made by himself on the last Copy in his Book A Song A Song A Song 133 134 135 136 To Mr. Henry Dickinson, on his Tranflation of "Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament" 137 To Mr. Dryden, on his "Troilus and Creffida” 138 Paris to Helen. Tranflated from Ovid's Epiftles 140 The Epistle of Acontius to Cydippe. Tranflated from To fome difbanded Officers upon the late Vote of the "Who for Preferments, &c." imitated in Latin 182 : POEMS C The BRITISH PRINCESS. OME on, ye Critics, find one fault who dares ; For read it backward, like a witch's prayers, 'T will do as well; throw not away your jefts On folid nonfenfe that abides all tests. Wit, like tierce-claret, when 't begins to pall, Neglected lies, and 's of no use at all, But, in its full perfection of decay, Turns vinegar, and comes again in play. Thou haft a brain, such as it is indeed; On what else should thy worm of fancy feed? Yet |