If fuch a fight as this can pleafe ye, Good madam Pallas, pray be easy, "To Neptune speak, and he 'll confent; "But he 'll come back the knave he went." The goddess, who conceiv'd an hope, That Horte was deftin'd to a rope, Believ'd it beft to condefcend To fpare a foe, to fave a friend : ODE Ο Ν SCIENCE. OH, heavenly-born! in deepest dells If faireft fcience ever dwells Indulge the verdure of the woods: With azure beauty gild the floods, For melancholy ever reigns While Dian, huntress of the vales, When When Solon and Lycurgus taught, To erring zeal they gave new laws. Bid bright Aftræa gild the morn, Without thy aid, in vain the poles, Come, faireft princefs of the throng, While raptur'd bards no more behold A vernal age of purer gold In Heliconian streams. Drive Thraldom with malignant hand,, To curfe fome other deftin'd land By Folly led aftray: Ierne bear on azure wing; Energic let her foar, and fing So, when Amphion bade the lyre Behold the madding throng, To sculpture turn'd by magic found CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUM E. ODE DE to the Hon. Sir William Temple, 1689. Page r to the Athenian Society, 1691. 9. Lines written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book, 1699. 20 Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition. Ballad on the Game of Traffic. Another Ballad, occafioned by the preceding one. The Discovery. The Problem, that my Lord Berkeley flinks when he is in Love. Description of a Salamander, 1706. To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded the British Forces in Spain.. On the Union. On Mrs. Biddy Floyd. Apollo outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch, afterwards Countefs of Winchelfea. Vanbrugh's Houfe, built from the Ruins of Whitehall. The History of Vanbrugh's House.. Baucis and Philemon, 1708. 21 26 28 Elegy Horace, Book I. Ode I. paraphrased. 1714. Book I. Ep. V. John Dennis the Shel- tering Poet's Invitation to Richard Steele the fecluded Party-writer and Member, to come and live with him in the Mint. To Lord Harley, on his Marriage. In Sickness. Written in Ireland, October 1714. The Fable of the Bitches. Written in the Year 1715, on an Attempt to repeal the Test-Act. Horace, Book III. Ode II. To the Earl of Oxford, Phyllis; or, The Progrefs of Love. Ad Amicum Eruditum Thomam Sheridan. 1717. ibid. The Dean's Answer. |