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Oh day! as innocent, as fair!-and thou,
Fair as the day, and young and innocent,
Sweet maiden; thou not seldom to thine eye
(As oft again on these retiring sands

Thy evening footsteps shall be seen) wilt call
'Mid blushing smiles, and sunny tears, that speak
Of fond remembrance, all that memory holds.
Of this sweet pilgrimage :-the winding shore,
The soft enamell'd margin-the long sweep
Of those majestic woods, which o'er the wave
Flung deep their emerald shadows,-the far hills;
The grey rock, with its blue springs trickling down
Through thick concealing foliage;-and the vale,
The long withdrawing vale, where Deben winds
His solitary wave from shore to shore,

To where the fountains of the Ocean lie.

J. M.

BENHALL,

20th September, 1835.

CONTENTS.

LIFE OF MATTHEW PRIOR. By the Rev. J. Mitford.....

Dedication; To the Right Honourable Lionel, Earl of

Dorset and Middlesex..

On Exod. iii. 14-"I am that I am."-An Ode, writ-

ten in 1688, as an Exercise at St. John's College,

To the Countess of Exeter, playing on the Lute.

Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath. By Jordain.

the Earl of Exeter's, Burleigh House.

An Ode, "While blooming youth and gay delight".

An Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd, Esq...

To the Countess of Dorset, written in her Milton, by

Mr. Bradbury....

To my Lord Buckhurst. Very young, playing with a

An Ode, "While from our looks, fair nymph, you

A Song, "In vain you tell your parting lover"

The despairing Shepherd..

To the Honourable Charles Montague.

to be sung before their Majesties on New-year's day,

1693-4...

The Lady's Looking-glass. In imitation of a Greek

Love and Friendship.

A pastoral. By Mrs. Eliza-

beth Singer....

To the Author of the foregoing Pastoral..

To a Lady: she refusing to continue a dispute with me,

and leaving me in the Argument. An Ode......

Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir Godfrey

Celia to Damon.

An Ode presented to the King, on his Majesty's Arri-

val in Holland, after the Queen's Death, 1695.

In imitation of Anacreon.

An Ode, "The merchant, to secure his treasure

Ode sur la prise de Namur, par les Armes du Roy,

l'année 1692, par Monsieur Boileau Despreaux..

An English Ballad on the taking of Namur by the King

of Great Britain, 1695....

Presented to the King at his Arrival in Holland, after

the Discovery of the Conspiracy, 1696.

Cupid and Ganymede.

Cupid mistaken..

Venus mistaken.

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A Song, "If wine and music have the power

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The Lady who offers her Looking-glass to Venus.

Answer to Cloe Jealous, in the same style, the Author

A better Answer.

Pallas and Venus. An Epigram.

To a young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.

Paulo Purganti and his Wife: an honest, but a simple

Written at Paris, 1700. In the beginning of Robe's

Written in the beginning of Mezeray's History of

Written in the Nouveaux Interets des Princes de l'Eu-

rope.

Adriani morientis ad animam suam.

A passage in the Moria Encomium of Erasmus imita-

To Dr. Sherlock, on his Practical Discourse concerning

Carmen Seculare, for the year 1700..

An Ode, inscribed to the Memory of the Honourable

Colonel George Villiers.

Prologue, spoken at Court before the Queen, on her

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Epigram, "Frank carves very ill, yet will palm all the

Another, "To John I ow'd great obligation"

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