And after the couplet

Add, from the MS.

On which thou lev'st to sit at eve,
Musing o'er thy darling's grave-

'To whom came trooping at thy call

Thy spirits from their airy hall,

From sea and earth, from heaven and hell,

Stern Hecate, and sweet Ariel.'

Ver. 1. Thyrsis, when we parted] In Mr. Park's edition, for "when we parted," it is printed "when he left me." And for "Ere the spring," " In the spring."

Ver. 3. Yon violet flower] In Mr. Park's edition "the opening flower.”

Ver. 5. 'Twas the lark] In Mr. Park's edition, this and the following line are transposed.

Ver. 8. Why this] In Mr. Park's edition, "why such."

Ver. 9. Western, &c.] In Mr. Park's edition these lines are printed thus:

"Gentle gales and sky serene

Prove not always winter past."

* Written at the request of Miss Speed, to an old air of Geminiani:-the thought from the French.

Cease, my doubts, my fears to move,

Spare the honour of my love.

[This Song is in this edition printed from the copy as it appears in Mr. H. Walpole's Letters to the Countess of Ailesbury. See his Works, vol. v. p. 561.]

TOPHE T.*

AN EPIGRAM.

THUS Tophet look'd; so grinn'd the brawling fiend,
Whilst frighted prelates bow'd and call'd him friend.
Our mother-church, with half-averted sight,
Blush'd as she bless'd her griesly proselyte;
Hosannas rung through hell's tremendous borders,
And Satan's self had thoughts of taking orders.

* Mr. Etough, of Cambridge University, the person satirized, was as remarkable for the eccentricities of his character, as for his personal appearance. Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, made an etching of his head, and presented it to Mr. Gray, who embellished it with the above lines. Some information respecting Mr. Etough, (who was rector of Therfield, Herts, and of Colmworth, Bedfordshire, and patronized by Sir Robert Walpole,) may be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. lvi. p. 25. 281; and in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. viii. p. 261.

IMPROMPTU,

SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, IN 1766, OF THE SEAT AND RUINS OF A DECEASED NOBLEMAN, AT KINGSGATE, KENT.'

OLD, and abandon'd by each venal friend,
Here Hd form'd the pious resolution
To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend
A broken character and constitution.

On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice;

Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighbouring sand ;

Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoice,
And mariners, though shipwreck'd, dread to land.

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Here reign the blustering North and blighting East,
No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing;
Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast,
Art he invokes new horrors still to bring

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VARIATIONS.

Ver. 2. Form'd] Took, Ms.

Ver. 3. A] Some, мs.

Ver. 11. Could] Cannot, Ms.

NOTES.

* Mr. Dallaway, in his Anecdotes of the Arts, p. 385, says that this house was built

by Lord Holland as a correct imitation of Cicero's Formian villa, at Baiæ.

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