FOR C. BATHURST, J. BUCKLAND, W.STRAHAN, J. RIVING-
TON AND SONS, T. DAVIES, T. PAYNE, L. DAVIS, W. OWEN,
B. WHITE, S. CROWDER, T. CASLON, T. LONGMAN,
B. LAW, E. AND C. DILLY, J. DODSLEY, H. BALDWIN,
J. WILKIE, J. ROBSON, J. JOHNSON, T. LOWNDES,
T.BECKET, G. ROBINSON, T.CADELL, W. DAVIS,
J. NICHOLS, F. NEWBERY, T. EVANS, J. RID-
LEY, R. BALDWIN, G. NICOL, LEIGH AND
SOTHEBY, J. BEW,

N. CONANT,
J. MURRAY, W. FOX, J. BOWEN.

MDCCLXXIX.

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CONTAINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, I. A MORAL Survey of the NocTURNAL Heavens. II. A NIGHT-ADDRESS to the DEITY.

HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,

ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRÉTARIES OF STATE.

“ -Fatis contraria fata rependens.”

VIRG.

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S when à traveller, a long day past

In painful search of what he cannot find,
At night's approach, content with the next cot,
There ruminates, a while, his labour lost;
Then chears his heart with what his fate affords,

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And chaunts his sonnet to deceive the time,
Till the due season calls him to repose :
Thus I, long-travel'd in the ways of men,
And dancing, with the rest, the giddy maze,
Where disappointment smiles at kope's career ;
Warn’d by the languor of life's evening ray,
At length have hous’d me in an humble shed;
Where, future wandering banish'd from my thought,
And waiting, patient, the sweet hour of rest,
Á VOL. III.

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