CONTENTS

OF

HALIFAX'S POEMS.

On the Death of his most Sacred Majesty King Charles

II.

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Ode on the Marriage of the Princess Anne and Prince

George of Denmark

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The Man of Honour; occafioned by a Postscript of

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Penn's Letter

An Epistle to Charles Earl of Dorset, occafioned by

his Majesty's Victory in Ireland

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Written at Althrop, in a blank Leaf of Waller's

Poems, upon feeing Vandyke's Picture of the old

Lady Sunderland

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Verses written for the Toasting Glasses of the Kit-Cat

:

Upon his Acceffion to the THRONE.

The Author then of Trinity-College, Cambridge.

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S victors lose the trouble they sustain

In greater trophies which the triumphs gain;
And martyrs, when the joyful crown is given,
Forget the pain by which they purchas'd heaven :
So when the Phoenix of our empire dy'd,
And with a greater heir the empty throne fupply'd;
Your glory diffipates our mournful dew,
And turns our grief for Charles to joy for you.
Mysterious fate, whose one decree could prove
The high extreme of cruelty and love!

May then no flight of a blafpheming Muse,
Those wife refolves of Providence accuse,
Which eas'd our Atlas of his glorious weight,
Since stronger Hercules supports the state,