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have acquir'd you in the Royal Family. A Prince, who is conftant to himself, and steady in all his Undertakings; one with whom the Character of HoRACE will agree,

Si fractus illabatur orbis,
Impavidum ferient ruina.

Such a one cannot but place an Efteem, and repose a Confidence on him, whom no Adverfity, no Change of Courts, no Bribery of Intereft, or Cabal of Factions, or Advantages of Fortune, can remove from the folid Foundations of Honour and Fidelity.

Ille meos, primus qui me fibi junxit, amores
Abftulit, ille habeat fecum, fervetque fepulcro.

How well your Lordship will deferve that Praise, I need no Inspiration to foretel. You have already left no room for Prophecy: Your early Undertakings have been fuch, in the Service of your King and Country, when you offer'd yourself to the most dangerous Employment, that of the Sea; when you chofe to abandon those Delights, to which your Youth and Fortune did invite you, to undergo the Hazards, and, which was worse, the Company of common Seamen; that you have made it evident, you will refuse no Opportunity of rendring yourself ufeful

useful to the Nation, when either your Courage or Conduct fhall be requir'd.

Bishop BURNET, Pref. to Sir T. MORE's Utopia.

OUR Language is now certainly properer and more natural than it was formerly, chiefly fince the Correction that was given by the Rehearsal: And it is to be hoped that the Effay on Poetry, which may be well match'd with the best Pieces of its kind that even AUGUSTUS's Age produced, will have a more powerful Operation; if clear Senfe, joined with home, but gentle Reproofs, can work more on our Writers, than that unmerciful expofing of 'em has done.

ADDISON, Spectat. N° 253.

WE have three Pocms in our Tongue, which arc of the fame nature, and cach of them a Masterpiece in its kind: The Effay on Tranflated Verfe, the Effay on Poetry, and the Effay on Criticism.

Ld. LANSDOWN, Effay on Unnatural Flights, &c. ROSCOMMON firft, then MULGRAVE rofe, like Light, To clear our Darkness, and to guide our Flight: With steady Judgment, and in lofty Sounds, They gave us Patterns, and they fet us Bounds.

The

The STAGYRITE and HORACE laid afide,

Inform'd by them, we need no foreign Guide:
Who seek from Poetry a lafting Name,

May from their Lessons learn the Road to Fame.
PRIOR, Alma, Cant. 2.

Happy the Poet! bleft the Lays!

Which BUCKINGHAM has deign'd to praise.

GARTH, Difpenfary.

Now Tyber's Streams no courtly GALLUS fee,
But fmiling Thames enjoys his NORMANBY.

POPE, Effay on Criticism.

Yet fome there were among the founder few,
Of those who lefs prefum'd, and better knew,
Who durft affert the jufter ancient Cause,

And here restor'd Wit's Fundamental Laws.

Such was the Mufe, whofe Rules and Practice tell, Nature's chief Masterpiece is writing well.

POPE, Mifcellanies.

Mufe, 'tis enough, at length thy Labour ends:

And thou fhalt Jive; for BUCKINGHAM Commends.

Let

Let Crowds of Criticks now my Verfe affail,
Let Ds write, and nameless Numbers rail.
This more than pays whole Years of thankless Pain,
Time, Health, and Fortune, are not loft in vain :
SHEFFIELD approves ; confenting PHOEBUS bends;
And I and Malice from this Hour are Friends.

The

The TABLE.

VOL. I.

HE Temple of Death.
Ode on Love

TH

SONGS and VERSES.

Elegy to the Dutchess of R

A Letter from Sea.

Love's Slavery.

The Dream.

Page!

8

To one who accused him of being too fenfual in

his Love.

The Warning.

24

27

29

31

33

34

36

To AMORETTA.

The Venture.

Inconftancy Excufed. Song.

38

40

Song.

Despair.

42

On Apprehenfion of lofing what he had newly

44

gain'd, in Imitation of OVID.

The Reconcilement. Song.

Song.

To a Coquet Beauty.

The Relapfe.

The Recovery

The Convert.

The Picture. In Imitation of ANACREON. On Don ALONZO's being killed in Portugal, upon account of the Infanta, in the Fear 1683. 64

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