INSCRIPTION on a SUMMER-HOUSE

Belonging to Mr. WEST, at WICKHAM, in KENT.

(An Imitation of AUSONIUS," Ad Villam.")

NOT wrapt in fimoky London's fulphurous clouds,

And not far diftant, stands my rural cot:

Neither obnoxious to intruding crowds,
Nor for the good and friendly too remote.

And when too much repose brings on the spleen,
Or the gay city's idle pleasures cloy;
Swift as my changing wish, I change the scene;
And now the country, now the town enjoy.

CONTENTS

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The fecond Ifthmian Ode,

The Song of Orpheus, and the setting out of the
Argo. Tranflated from the Argonautics of
Apollonius Rhodius,

The Story of Phineus. From the fame,

The Hymn of Cleanthes,

The Triumphs of the Gout,

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On the Abuse of Travelling. A Canto, in
Imitation of Spenfer,

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Education. A Poem written in Imitation of

the Style and Manner of Spenfer's Fairy Queen, 281 Father Francis's Prayer. Written in Lord Weft

Infcription in a Summer-house belonging to
Mr. Weft, at Wickham, in Kent,

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POEMS