THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS. THE ADDITIONAL LIVES BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F.S. A. IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES. VOL. VII. COWLEY, I DENHAM, I MILTON. LONDON: 1810. CONTENTS. Page 65 103 ........... THE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ......... | Ode I. On the Praise of Poetry .......... JI. That a Pleasant Poverty is to be pre- demiam Cantabrigiensem .................... 41 ferred before Discontented Riches... ib. The Author's Preface to his Edition in Folio, III. To his Mistress .................... IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A The Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition Translation ............................ of 1674 ........................................ 481 V. In Commendation of the Time we live under, the Reign of our gracious King Charles .................. .... .......... VI. On the Shortness of Man's Life ...... ib. | An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge...... ib. Constantia and Pbiletus.......... ............... The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe 56 SYLVA: OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES, MADE UPON | The Motto ........................................... De felici parta, Reginæ Mariæ ................... 59 To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from at Westminster School ........... An Elegy on the Death of my loving Friend | On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandyck, the and Cousin. Mr. Richard Clarke, Gent, late famous Painter ....... of Lincoln's Ion ........ .......... ib. Ode .....................* Vstum .......................... *** On bis Majesty's Return out of Scotland ...... Friendship in Absence song, on the same ................................ To the Bishop of Lincoln, woon his Enlarge- ib. I ment out of the Tower ........... A Poetical Revenge ............................. 63 | To a Lady who made Posies for Rings......... To the Duchess of Buckingham ............... Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince ib. To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. Tbe Epilogue ............ On the Death of Mr. William Hervey ......... An Elegy on the Death of Job Littleton, Esq. Ode in Imitation of Horace's Ode V. Book I.. 75 Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Littleton, who In Imitation of Martial's Epigram, L. V. Ep. was drowned leaping into the Water to save L X X. ................................................ his younger Brother .......................... .......... 64 | The Chronicle. A Ballad ....... ............... ib. A Translation of Verses upon the Blessed Vir To Sir William Davenant, upon his Two First gin, written in Latin by the Right Worship- |