The Gift....

Epitaph on Dr Parnell..

Epilogue to the Comedy of the Sisters.

Epilogue spoken by Mrs Bulkley and Miss Catley..

Epilogue intended for Mrs Bulkley..

The Haunch of Venison...

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ib.

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She Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy.... 219

An Oratorio; now first printed from the original in Dr Goldsmith's

own hand-writing...

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Criticism on Massey's Translation of the Fasti of Ovid.

Criticism on Barret's Translation of Ovid's Epistles..

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VOL. II.

POEMS.

PROLOGUE,

WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY

THE POET LABERIUS,

A ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CÆSAR FORCED UPON THE STAGE.

PRESERVED BY MACROBIUS.'

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WHAT! no way left to shun th' inglorious stage,
And save from infamy my sinking age!
Scarce half alive, opprest with many a year,
What in the name of dotage drives me here?
A time there was, when glory was my guide,
Nor force nor fraud could turn my steps aside;
Unawed by power, and unappall'd by fear,
With honest thrift I held my honour dear :
But this vile hour disperses all my store,
And all my hoard of honour is no more ;

For ah! too partial to my life's decline,
Cæsar persuades, submission must be mine;

This translation was first printed in one of our author's earliest works,

"The Present State of Learning in Europe," 12mo. 1759; but was omitted

in the second edition, which appeared in 1774.