VI. Mournful Cypress, verdant Willow, Hear me pay my dying vows. VII. Melancholy fmooth Meander, With thy flowery Chaplets crown'd. VIII. Thus when Philomela drooping, See the Bird of Juno stooping; ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT. I Know the thing that's most uncommon; (Envy be filent, and attend!) I know a reasonable Woman, Handsome and witty, yet a Friend. Not warp'd by Paffion, aw'd by Rumour, Not grave through Pride, nor gay through Folly, An equal Mixture of Good-humour, And fenfible foft Melancholy. "Has fhe no faults then (Envy fays) Sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver: On On his GROTTO at Twickenham, COMPOSED OF MARBLE, SPARS, GEMS, ORES, and MINERALS. T HOU who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent wave Shines a broad Mirrour through the fhadowy Cave; 5 Approach. Great NATURE ftudiously behold! Soul. Let fuch, fuch only, tread this facred Floor, VOL. II. Аа To To Mrs. M. B. on her BIRTH-DAY. OH, be thou bleft with all that Heaven can fend, Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Not with those Toys the female world admire, year Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, VARIATION. Ver. 15. Originally thus in the MS. And oh fince Death must that fair frame destroy, ΤΟ 15 20 Το To Mr. THOMAS SOUTHERN, R On his Birth-day, 1742. ESIGN'D to live, prepar'd to die, This day Tom's fair Account has run The mushrooms fhew his wit was fudden! May Tom, whom Heaven sent down to raise EPITAPH S. "His faltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani "Munere !" I. VIRG. On CHARLES Earl of DORSET, In the Church of Withyam in Suffex. DORS ORSET, the Grace of Courts, the Mufes' Pride, Patron of Arts, and judge of Nature, dy'd. The fcourge of Pride, though fanctified or great, Of Fops in Learning, and of Knaves in State : Yet foft his Nature, though severe his Lay, His Anger moral, and his Wisdom gay. Bleft Satirift! who touch'd the Mean so true, As fhow'd, Vice had his hate and pity too. Bleft Courtier! who could King and Country please, Reflecting, and reflected in his Race; Where other BUCKHURSTS, other DORSETS fhine, |