CONTENTS.

VOL. X.

POEMS OF HUGHES.

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3 | Horace, Ode iii. Book iii

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Greenwich Park

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RECOMMENDATORY POEMS.

To Moliada

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To Mr. John Hughes, on his Poem, entitled, A Letter to a Friend in the Country

ib.

The Triumph of Peace

Verses presented to a Lady, with a Drawing (by

To the Memory of Mr. Highes. By Miss Judith the Author) of Cupid

28

Cowper.

ib. Horace, Book I. Ode xxii.

ib.

By W. Doncombe

8

ll. Ode xvi. To Grosphus......... ib.

To the Memory of Mr. Hughes. By William The Birth of the Rose, From the French 29

Cowper.

ib.

By Jabez Hugbes.

ib.

SIX CANTATAS, OR POEMS FOR MUSIC, AFTER THE MANNER

9

By J. Bunce, late of Trioity Hall, Cambridge.

OF THE ITALIANS. SET BY MR. PEPUSCH.
In Memoriam viri clarissimi Johannis Hughes. ib. The Preface. To the Lovers of Music...... 30
Prologue to the Memory of Mr. Hughes ..... ib. Cantata I. On English Beauty

31
II. Alexis

ib.
The Triumph of Peace. Occasioned by the

Ill. On the Spring.

ib.

Peace of Ryswick, 1697..

11

JV. Miranda

32

The Court of Neptune. On King William's

V. Corydon ..

ib.
Return from Holland, 1699. Addressed to

VI. The Coquet

ib.

the right honourable Charles Montague, esq.

19 | The Praises of heroic Virtue. From the Frage

The House of Nassaa. A Pindaric Ode 16 ments of Tyrtæas. Translated in the Year

Odle on the Death of a Friend

19 1701, on Occasion of the King of France's

Anacreon. Ode the third

ib. breaking the Peace of Ryswick...... ib.

The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe. From the Under the Print of Tom Britton. The musical
fourth Book of Ovid's Metam hoses ... ib, Smallcoal-man

33
The Triumph of Love. In Imitation of Ovid, Song.--The fair Traveller

ib.

Amorum, Lib. I. Eleg. 2.........

20 A Cantata. Set by Mr. D. Purcell......

ib.

The Picture

21 Sony. - Would you gain the tender creature , ib.

Barn-Elms

ib. Cupid and Scarlati. A Cantala. Set by Mr.

On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria ;, Pepusch

ib.
and the Sickness of the former

ib. A Cantata. Set with Symphonies by Signior

Song.-Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought. 22

Nicolini Haym.........

54

To Octavia indisposed......

ib. Pastora. A Cantata. Set by Mr. Pepusch... ib.

Beauty and Music

ib. A pastoral Masque

ib.

Cupid's Review

ib. A Cantata. Set by Mr. Galliard

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To a beautiful Lady, playing on the Organ

23 A Fragment......

ib.

Sounet, in French and English

ib. Claudianus

ib.

a Painter.......

ib. A Cantata. Set by Mr. Pepnsch

36

To the Author of Fatal Friendship, a Tragedy 24 The So!dier in Love. A Cantata. Set by Mr.

On Divine Poetry

ib. Pepusch

ib.

Song Written for the late Duke of Glouces. An Ode in Praise of Music. Performed at
ter's Birth-day
ib. Stationer's Hail, 1703.....

ib.
On a Peacock, finely cut in Vellum by Molinda. ib. Apollo and Daphne. A Cantata. Set by Mr.

Oa Lacinda's Tea-table

25 Galliard

37

The March

ib. A Thought in a Garden. Written in the Year

Written in a Lady's Prayer-book

ib. 1704 ....

ib.

Ode on the Spring. For the Month of May. ib. A Wish, to the new Year, 1705 .................. S8

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A Cantata. Set by Mr. Galliard.....

38 The Character of the Lady Henrietta Caven-

An Ode for vocal and instrumental Music, to

dish Holles
the Memory of the most noble William Duke Truth, Honour, Honesty. The Motto chosen

of Devonshire. Set to Music by Mr. Pepusch ib. by the right hon, the Lady Henerietta Ca-
Epilogue, spoken by Mr. Mill's, at the Queen's vendish Holles

ib.

Theatre, on his benefit Night, February 16, Hymn. Sung by the Children of Christ's Hos-

1709, a little before the Duke of Marl- pital, at the Entry of King George into

borough's going for Holland

39 London, 1714

48

Written in a Window at Greenbithe

- 40 A monumental Ode, to the Memory of Mrs.

The Toasters

ib. Elizabeth Hughes, late wife of Edward

Tofts and Margaretta

ib. Hughes, Esq.

ib.

The wandering Beauty

ib. An Allusion to Horace. Book 1. Ode xxii.

Dialogue de l'Amour, et du Poète, by Mons. Printed at the breaking out of the Rebellion

de la Motte

ib. in the Year 1715........

The same translated .......

ib. Fragment.-0 say, ye saints, who shine in

Venus and Adonis. A Cantata. Set by Mr. realms above

ib.

Handel .......

ib. Apollo and Daphne. A Masque

ib.

Cantata. Pastoral. Set by Dr. Pepusch... 41 An Ode for the Birth-day of her royal high-

Beauty. An Ode

ib. ness the Princess of Wales, St. David's Day,

Myra A Cantata. Set by Dr. Pepusch...... ib. the first of March, 1715-16

52
Alexander's Feast; or the Power of Music: Extract of a Letter from Mr. Hughes to the
an Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day. By Lord Chancellor Cowper

ib.

Mr. Dryden. Altered for Music by Mr. Ode to the right honourable Lord Chancellor

Hughes.......

42 Cowper, Anno 1717. In Allusion to Horace,

Lib. II. Ode xx. .................

59

SONGS.

What is Man?......

ib.

ib.

Thy origin's divine, I see......

Bolieau, dans sa 1 Epitre au Roi

43

The same,

ib.

Constantia, see thy faithful slave.

ib.

in English
Tbrice lor'd Constantia, heavenly fair

ib.

An Image of Pleasure. In Imitation of an

Ode in Casimire
Translated from Persian Verses. Alluding to An Ode in the Park at Asted......................

the Custom of Women being buried with To Mr. Constantine, on his Paintings.......... 55
their Husbands, and Men with their Wives. ib. To Urania, on ber Arrival at Jamaica

ib.
Another on the same subjecť..................... A Supplement and Conclusion to Milton's II
On Arqueäoassa of Colophos.......
ib. Pensero:0..

ib.
On Fulvia, the Wife of Anthony. From the The Hue and Cry

56

Latin of Augustus Cæsar....

44 The Patriot. To the right hon. William Lord

Hud bras imitated. Written in 1710

ib. Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great
An Ode to the Creator the World. Occa-

Britaio

ib
sioned by the Fragments of Orpheus......... ib. The second Scene of the first Act of Orestes,
To Mr. Addison, on his Tragedy of Cato 46 Tragedy. Translated from Euripides...... 57
Advice to Mr. Pope. On his intended Trans- On the Birth-day of the right honourable the
lation of Homer's Iliad, 1714..........

ib. Lord Chancellor Parker. July 23, 1719 ... 38

To the Memory of Milton

ib. The XIV, Olympick of Pindar. To Asopicus

To a Lady with the Tragedy of Cato....... ib. of Orchomenus.....

ib.

Fragment.-Promiscuous crowds to worthless The Morning Apparition

ib.

riches born

ib. Written in a Window at Wallington-House, then

Serenata for two Voices, on the Marriage of the Seat of Mrs. Elizabeth Bridges, 1719... 59

the right hon. the Lord Cobham 'to Mrs. The Supplement: the Character of Mrs. Eliza-

Anne Halsey

47 beth Bridges. Imperfect

ib.

Horatius. In libro primo Epistolarum ib. The Ecstasy. An Ode......

60

Translated

ib. The tenth Book of Lucan's Pharsalia. Trans-

On a Collar presented for Happy Gill, 1712... ib. lated

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To Amoretta

83 Part of the Story of Orpheus. Being a Trans-

The Venture

ib.

lation out of the fourth Book of Virgil's

laconstancy excused. Song

ib.

Georgics

Song: -On, conceal that charming creature . ib. An Essay on Poetry...

Despair

84 | Ode on Brutus....

On Apprehension of losing what he had newly

gained. In Imitation of Ovid..........

ib.

MISCELLANIES.

The Reconcilement. Song

ib,

Soag. — Froin all uneasy passions free ib. The Rapture

To a Coquet Beauty

85 On Mr. Hobbes and his Writings

The Relapse

ib. Written over a Gate

The Recovery

ib. The Miracle, 1707

The Concert

ib. Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell
The Picture. In Imitation of Anacreon ib. On the Loss of an only Son, Robert Marquis
On Don Alonzo's being killed in Portugal, up- of Normanby

on Account of the Infanta, in the Year1683. 86 On Mr. Pope and his Poems .

The Surprise.........

ib. Stanzas. - Whene'er my foolish bent to public

A Dialogue sung on the Stage, between an el- good.

derly Shepberd and a very young Nymph ib. The Election of a Poet Laureat in 1719

On One who died discovering her Kindness ... 87 On the Times

On Lucinda's Death

ib. On the Duke of York banished to Brussels

To a lady retiring into a Monastery

ib. On the Deity

The Vision. Written during a Sea-voyage, Prologue to the Alteration of Julius Cæsar

when sent to command the Forces for the Choruses in Julius Cæsar.

Relief of Tangier.......

ib. Prologue to Marcus Brutus

Helen to Paris. From Ovid. Translated by Choruses in Marcus Brutus

the Earl of Mulgrave and Mr. Dryden...... 89

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95

96

ib.

97

ib.

98

ib.

ib.

ib.

99

100

ib.

ib.

ib.

101

102

POEMS OF PRIOR.

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129

ib.

The Author's Life, by Dr. Jobạson

............ 105

Ad Virum doctissimum Dominum Samuelem

Dedication

119

Shaw

136

Preface.....

127 Translation. By Mr. Cuoke.....................

ib.

Postscript.

ib. On the taking Namur..

ib.

On the Marriage of George Prince of Den- Ode.-In Imitation of Horace, III.Od. ii. writ-

mark, and the Lady Anne

ten in 1692 ...

ib.

On Exodus iij. 14. lam that I am. An Ode. Hymn to the Sun. Set by Dr. H. Purcell, and

Written 1688, as an Exercise at St. John's intended to be sung hefore their Majesties

College, Cambridge........

on New year's Day, 1693-4.....

138

Considerations on Part of the LXXXVIII. The Lady's Looking-glass. In Imitation of a

Psalm. A college Exercise, 1689.

130 Greek Idyllium

139

To the Rev. Dr. F.Turner, Bishop of Ely, who Love and Friendship: a Pastoral. By Mrs.
had advised a Translation of Prudentius ib.

Elizabeth Singer, afterwards Rowe..... ib.

A Pastoral to the Bishop of Ely, on his Depar- To the Anthor of the foregoing Pastoral 140

ture from Cambridge

131 To a Lady: she refusing to continue a Dispute

To the Countess of Exeter, playing on the Lute ib. with me, and leaving me in the Argument,
On a Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath ; by Au Ode......

ib.

Jordain

132 Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir

Ode.—While blooming youth and gay delight ib. Godfrey Kneller's

ib.

Ad Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. ib. Celia to Damon

Another Epistle to the same

135 Prologue, spoken by Lord Buckhurst, in West-

To the Countess of Dorset. Written in her minster School, at a Representation of Mr.

Milton. By Mr. Bradbury

134

Dryden's Cleomenes, at Christmas, 1695 ... 142

To the Lady Dursley. On the same Subject... ib. | An Ode, presented to the King, on his Majesty's

To my Lord Buckhurst, very young, playing Arrival in Holland after the Queen's Death,

with a Cat

1695

ib.

Ode.-While from our looks, fair nymph, you In Imitation of Anacreon

143

guess...

135 Ode sur la Prise de Namur, par les Armes du

A Song.-In vain you tell your parting lover. ib. Roy, l'Annee 1692. Par Monsieur Boileau

The despairing Shepherd

Despreaux

To the hon. Charles Montague, Esq. afterwards An English Ballad on the taking of Namur by

Earl of Halifax

ib.

the King of Great Britain, 1695

145

Variations in a Copy, printed 1699

ib. Ode.-The merchant to secure bis treasure ...

140

.... 141

ib.

ib.

ib.

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189

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183

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Presented to the King, at hisArrival in Holland, A Paraphrase from the French ...
after the Discovery of the Conspiracy, 1696. 146 From the Greek

169
The Secretary. Written at the Hague, 1696. 147 Epigram.-Frank carves very ill, yet will palm

To Cloe weeping

ib. all the meats

ib.

To Mr. Howard. An Ode

ib. Epigram.-To John I owed great obligation.. ib.

Love disarmed

148 Epigram.—Yes, every poet is a fool... il

Cloe hunting.....

ib. Epigram.—Thy nags the leanest things alive. ib.

Cupid and Ganymede.....

ib. To a Person who wrote ill, and spoke worse

Cupid mistaken . ........

149 against me

ib.

Venus mistaken

ib. On the same Person

it.

Song. If wine and music have the power

ib. Quid sit futurum cras fuge quærere...

ib.

The Dove...

ib. A Ballad of the Notbrowne Mayde

A Lover's Anger

150 | Henry and Emma. A Poem, upon the Model

Mercury and Cupid........

ib, of the Nut-brown Maid

On Beauty. A Riddle

151 An Ode, humbly inscribed to the Queen, on

The Question. To Lisetta.

ib. the glorious Success of her Majesty's Arms,

Lisetta's Reply

ib. 1706. Written in Imitation of Spenser's Style. 178

The Garland..

ih. Her right Name

181

The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Cantata. Set by Monsieur Galliard

ib.
Venus. Taken from an Epigram of Plato, 152 Lines written in an Ovid. A Translation from

Cloe jealous........

ib. the French

Answer to Cloe jealous, in the same Style; the A true Maid

ib.

Author sick

ib. Another

ib.

A better Answer

ib. A reasonable Affliction

ib.

Pallas and Venus. An Epigram

Another reasonable Amiction

jb.

70 a young Gentleman in Love. A Tale...... ib: Another

ib.

An English Padlock

ib. On the same Subject

ib.

Hans Carvel.....

On the same

ib.

A Dutch Proverb

ib. Phyllis's Age

ib.

Paulo Purganti and his Wife; an honest but Forma Bonum fragile.....
a simple Pair

ib.

An Epigram. Written to the Duke de Noailles, ib.

The Ladle

157 | Epilogue to Smith's Phædra and Hippolytus,

Written at Paris, 1700, in the Beginning of spoken by Mrs. Oldfield, who acted Ismena. ib.

Robe's Geography

158 A critical Moment

jb.

Written in the Beginning of Mezeray's History Epilogue to Mrs. Manley's Lucius

ib.

of France...

ib. The Thief and the Cordelier. A Ballad 184

Written in the nouveaux Interets des Princes To Chloe

ib.
de l'Europe

ib. An Epitaph.-Interr'd within this marble stone. ib.
Adriani Morentis ad Animam suam

ib. Written in Montaigne's Essays, given to the
In French. By Monsieur Fontenelle.

159 Duke of Shrewsbury in France, after the

Imitated. In English.....

ib. Peace, 1713

185

· A Passage in the Moriæ Encomium of Eras- An Epistle desiring the Queen's Picture.

mus, imitated ......

ib. Written at Paris, 1714, but left unfinished,

To Dr. Sherlock, on bis practical Discourse by the sudden News of her Majesty's Death. ib.

concerning Death

ib. To the right honourable the Countess Dow-

Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700. To the ager of Devonshire, on a Piece of Wiessen's,

King

ib. whereon were all her Grandsons painted . ib.

The Remedy worse than the Disease

164 A Fable, from Phædrus. To the Author of

An Ode, inscribed to the Memory of the hou. the Medley, 1710

186

Colonel George Villiers, drowned in the River To the right honourable Mr. Harley. Horace,

Piava, 1703. In Imitation of Horace, I Ode

1 Ep. ix. imitated

ib.

xxviii

ib. To Mr. Harley, wounded by Guiscard, 1711.. ib.

Prologue, spoken at Court, before the Queen, An extempore Invitation to the Earl of Ox-

on her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1704

165 ford, Lord High Treasurer, 1712

187

A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, oc- Erle Robert's Mice. In Chaucer's Style ib.

casioned by the Victory at Blenheim, 1704. ib. In the same Style

ib.

Upon a Passage in the Scaligeriana

167 In the same Style

ib.

a Child of Quality, five Years old, 1704 : A Flower painted by Simon Varelst

ib.
the Author then forty

ib. To the Lady Elizabeth Harley, afterwards
Partial Fame .....

ib. Marchioness of Carmarthen. On a Column
For the Plan of a fountain, on which are the of her Drawing

ib.

Effigies of the Queen on a triumphal Arch; Protogenes and Apelles

188

the Figure of the Duke of Marlborough be- Democritus and Heraclitus

ib.
neath, and the chief Rivers in the World On my Birth-Day, July 21

ib.

round the whole Work

ib. Epitaph. Extempore

189

The Cameleon....

ib. For my own Tombstone..

ib.

Merry Andrew

168 For my own Monument .....