The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical

Duchefs of BEAUFORT.

Offspring of a tuneful fire,

Bleft with more than mortal fire;
Likenefs of a mother's face,

Bleft with more than mortal grace;
You with double charms furprize,
With his wit, and with her eyes.

Lady MARY CHURCHILL.

Faireft and lateft of the beauteous race,

Bleft with your parents wit, and her first blooming face ;
Born with our liberties in William's reign,
Your eyes alone that liberty reftrain.

Duchefs of RICHMOND.

Of two fair Richmonds different ages boaft,
Theirs was the first, and ours the brightest toast;
Th' adorers offerings prove who's most divine,
They facrific'd in water, we in wine.

Lady SUNDERLAND.

All Nature's charms in Sunderland appear,
Bright as her eyes, and as her reafon clear:
Yet ftill their force, to men not fafely known,
Seems undifcover'd to herself alone.

Mademoiselle SPANHEIME.

Admir'd in Germany, ador'd in France,
Your charms to brighter glory here advance;
The ftubborn Britons own your beauty's claim,
And with their native toafts enrol your name.

ON

COURAGE, dear Moll, and drive away defpair.

Co

Mopfa, who in her youth was scarce thought fair, In spite of age, experience, and decays,

Sets up for Charming, in her fading days;
Snuffs her dim eyes to give one parting blow,
Have at the heart of every ogling beau!
This goodly goose, all feather'd like a jay,
So gravely vain, and fo demurely gay,
Laft night, t' adorn the court, did overload
Her bald buff forehead with a high commode :
Her fteps were manag'd with fuch tender art,
As if each board had been a lover's heart.
In all her air, in every glance, was seen
A mixture strange, twixt fifty and fifteen.
Admiring fops about her crowding press;
Hambden himself delivers their addrefs,
Which the, accepting with a nice difdain,
Owns them her fubjects, and begins to reign
Fair Queen of Fopland is her royal style;
Fopland! the greatest part of this great
Nature did ne'er fo equally divide
A female heart, 'twixt piety and pride:
Her waiting-maids prevent the peep of day,
And, all in order, on her toilet lay

ifle!

Prayer

Prayer-books, patch-boxes, fermon-notes, and paint,
At once t' improve the finner and the faint.
Farewel, friend Moll: expect no more from me ;
But if you would a full defcription fee,
You'll find her fomewhere in the Litany,
With Pride, Vain-glory, and Hypocrify.

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ORPHEUS

AND

SIGNORA FRANCISCA MARGARITA.

HA

AIL, tuneful pair! fay, by what wondrous charms,
One'fcap'd from hell, and one from Greber's arms?
When the foft Thracian touch'd the trembling ftrings,
The winds were hufh'd, and curl'd their airy wings:
And when the tawny Tufcan rais'd her ftrain,
Rooke furls his fails, and dozes on the main.
Treaties unfinish'd in the office fleep,

And Shovel yawns for orders on the deep.
Thus equal charms and equal conquests claim
To him high woods and bending timber came,
To her fhrub Hedges, and tall Nottingham.

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HALIFAX'S POEM S.

On the Death of his moft Sacred Majesty King Charles

II.
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Ode on the Marriage of the Princefs Anne and Prince

George of Denmark

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The Man of Honour; occafioned by a Postscript of

Penn's Letter