THE

POEMS

OF

Matthew Prior.

VOL. I.

Chiswick:

FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,

COLLEGE HOUSE.

CONTENTS.

LIFE of Prior, by Dr. Johnson.......

ENCOMIUMS ON PRIOR.

Verses sent to him when under Confinement..

Stanzas on his Carmen Seculare.........

From the Village Curate, by Hurdis..........

Dedication to the Right Hon. the Earl of Dorset and

Middlesex

Preface

Postscript......

On Exod. iii. 14, 1688..

ODES.

Ode. While blooming youth and gay delight..........

Ode. While from our looks, fair Nymph, you guess...

To a Lady, she refusing to continue a Dispute with me,

and leaving me in the Argument.

Ode. The merchant to, secure his treasure..

Presented to the King, on his Majesty's Arrival in Hol-

land after the Queen's Death, 1695.

To Mr. Howard..

1692

86

51

55

.........

95

Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George

Villiers....

Humbly inscribed to the Queen, on the glorious Success

of her Majesty's Arms, 1706...

To Mr. Harley, wounded by Guiscard, 1711.

In Imitation of Horace, Book iii. Ode 2.

Cupid's Promise Paraphrased...

SONGS AND BALLADS.

The Thief and Cordelier.......

Song. In vain you tell your parting lover...............................

Sur la prise de Namur, par les Armes du Roi, l'Année
1692.

....

The same parodied as an English Ballad, on the taking

of Namur, by the King of Great Britain, 1695

The Garland

The Viceroy. A Ballad.

A Ballad, 1715.........

Page

100

101

112

113

Down-hall.

121

129

Twenty-four Songs, set to Music by the most eminent

Masters

..........

129

Song. If wine and music have the power....

Prologue spoken at Court before the Queen, on her

Birth-day, 1704 .

189

Prologue to the Orphan, represented by some West-

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. In Three Books.