rot "away infenfibly: This is often obviated by their not keeping too much within Doors. Another is the Worms, which prey upon their Bowels: If they be maim'd by Accidents, they become, like us, fo far ufelefs; and that Maim will some time or other be the Occafion of their Ruin. However, they perifh by these Means only in Appearance, and like Spirits, who vanish in one Place, to be seen in another. But as Men dye of Paffions, so Difefteem is what the most nearly touches them; then they withdraw into Holes and Corners, and confume away in Darkness. Or if they are kept alive a few Days by the force of Spices, it is but a fhort Reprieve from their perifhing to Eternity; without any Honour, but that instead of a Burial, a fmall Pyre of Paft fhou'd be erected over them, while they, like the antient Romans, are reduc'd to Ashes. N. B. This Vifion is to be understood of a Library of Books. FINIS ERRATA, In Pervigilio Veneris. Pag. 48. verf. 2. pro fpameo, lege fpumeo. p. 50.v. 10. muae,lege INDEX. ESIOD, or the Rife of Woman. Page HR Song: Anacreontick. I 18, 19, 21 23,28 A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English Style. 32 Pervigilium Veneris. The Vigil of Venus.S Battle of the Frogs and Mice. To Mr. Pope. 47 71 105 Part of the first Canto of the Rape of the Lock Tranflated. Health; an Eclogue. II 2 116 The Flies; an Eclogue. 122 An Elegy. To an old Beauty. 128 The Book-Worm. 134 BOOKS printed for BERNARD LINTOT. MR. Pope's Homer in 6 Vol. 4o Royal, fol. and His Miscellaneous Poems. Mifcellany Poems, by his Grace of Buckingham, &c. Dr. King's Mifcellanies, 2 Vol. His Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's His Art of Love, in Imitation of Ovid. Wiqueforts complete Ambaffador. Dr. Fiddes's Body of Divinity, 2 Vol. Dr. Keill's Aftronomy, Corrected by Dr. Halley. with Cutts. Coke's Comment on Littleton The 11th Edition. James of Gardening, with Cuts. |