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GEORGE WITHER.......
From "The Shepherd's Hunting".
From "The Shepherd's Resolution".
The Stedfast Shepherd....................
From a Poem on the Anniversary of his Marriage-day...........
DR. HENRY KING.....
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300
301
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303
A Son and Nephew receiving the News of a Father's and an Uncle's Death (from “The
Samson bewailing his Blindness and Captivity (from "Samson Agonistes")................ 311
Speeches of Manoah, the Father of Samson, and of the Chorus, on hearing of his last
Hudibras commencing battle with the Rabble, and leading off Crowdero Prisoner (Part I.
Canto II.).
326
Vicarious Justice exemplified by Ralpho, in the Case of the Cobbler that killed the
Indian (from Part II. Canto II.).............................................
329
Hudibras consulting the Lawyer (from Part III. Canto III.)............
Chamont's Suspicions of his Sister (Scene from "The Orphan")...................
333
Chamont finding Monimia in Tears, discovering the Cause of her Grief, and remonstrat-
ing with Acasto (from the same).........
335
Belvidera revealing to her Father the Secret of the Conspiracy (from “Venice Pre-
served," Act V. Scene I.)............
336
The Naval Glory of England (from Verses on a War with Spain).............
342
Early Rising and Prayer (from "Silex Scintillans, or Sacred Poems")................
355
Character of George Villiers, the second Duke of Buckingham (from the same)........... 357
Characters of Doeg and Og-the Poets Settle and Shadwell (from the same)............... 357
Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew..........
358
Description of Lycurgus King of Thrace, and of Emetrius King of Inde (from the
Fable of "Palamon and Arcite").............
Song.-Written at Sea, in the first Dutch War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement. 366
Song...............
367
GEORGE STEPNEY.......
To the Evening Star (Englished from a Greek Idyllium)........................................
Holla, my Fancy, whither wilt thou go? (from a Choice Collection of Comic and Serious
Scots Poems, 1709)............
370
On a Woman's Inconstancy (from the same)............................
The Church Builder (from Poems for the October Club, 1711)........
371
Lucilla conjuring Calista to conquer her Passion for Lothario (from "The Fair Penitent,"
Act II. Scene I.).....................................................
381
Sciolto, the Father of Calista, finds her watching the Dead Body of Lothario by Lamp-
light, in a Room hung round with black (from the same, Act V. Scene I.)............ 381
Colin's Complaint...........
383
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The Lady's Looking-glass.-In Imitation of a Greek Idyllium..........
An Answer to Chloe..........
389
390
Verses said to be written by the Author on himself when he was in a Consumption..... 394
Song (from his "Poems on several Occasions, in Imitation of the Manner of Anacreon"). 418
On himself (from Anacreon)...
418
The Five Traitors, a Song (from Poems printed at Cork, 1743)..................................................
421
Baucis and Philemon.-On the ever-lamented Loss of the two Yew Trees in the Parish
of Chilthorne, Somerset, 1708 (imitated from the eighth Book of Ovid)............... 431
On Poetry.-A Rhapsody, 1733........ 432