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DEDICATORY EPISTLE to the Rev. Alexander Dyce . i

LIFE OF Parnell, by the Rev. John Mitford .......... 33

To the Right Hon. Robert, Earl of Oxford, and Earl

Mortimer

1

Hesiod ; or, The Rise of Woman....

3

Song, “When thy beauty appears”

15

Song, " Thyrsis, a young and amorous swain”

15

Song, “My days have been so wondrous free"

17

Anacreontic, " When spring came

on with fresh

delight"

19

Anacreontic, “ Gay Bacchus, liking Estcourt's wine”. 22

A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English style

25

The Vigil of Venus, written in the time of Julius

Cæsar, and by some ascribed to Catullus ......... 33

Homer's Batrachomuomachia ; or, The Battle of the

Frogs and Mice, Book I........

45

II.

53

III.

59

To Mr. Pope

67

A Translation of part of the First Canto of the Rape of

the Lock, into Leonine Verse, after the manner of the

ancient Monks.............

71

Health ; an Eclogue

74

The Flies; an Eclogue...

77

An Elegy, to an Old Beauty

80

The Book-worm

83

An Allegory on Man

87

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An Imitation of some French Verses

91

A Night-piece on Death

93

A Hymn to Contentment

97

The Hermit ....

100

Piety; or, The Vision

111)

Bacchus; or, The Drunken Metamorphosis.......... 115

Dr. Donne's Third Satire versified........

119

On Bishop Burnet's being set on Fire in his Closet..... 125

On Mrs. Arabella Fermor leaving London........... 126

Chloris appearing in a Looking-glass.........

127

The Life of Zoilus, and his Remarks on the Battle of

the Frogs and Mice......

129

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IGNOSCENDA ISTHÆC AN COGNOSCENDA REARIS

ATTENTO DREPANI PERLEGE JUDICIO ÆQUANIMUS FIAM TE JUDICE SIVE LEGENDA

SIVE TEGENDA PUTES CARMINA QUÆ DEDIMUS POSSUM EGO CENSURAM LECTORIS FERRE SEVERI ET POSSUM MODICA LAUDE PLACERE MIHI,

AUSONIUS C. L. DREPANO PAR. PROL.