70

73

76

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To Mr. Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a Song of mine, in the year 1635.

69 To Sir William Davenant, upon his two firft books of Gondi

hert written in France, To my worthy friend Mr. Wife, the Translator of Gra- tius,

71 To my worthy Friend Mr. Evelyn, upon his Translation of Lucretius.

72 To his worthy Friend Sir Thomas Higgons, upon his Trans

lation of the Venetian Triumph, Verses to Dr. George Rogers, on his taking the Degree of

Doctor in Phyfic at Padua, in the Year 1664, 74 Chloris and Hylas. Made to a Saraband,

75 In answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves,

78 An Apology for having loved before,

79 To Zelinda,

80 To my Lady Morton on New-Year's Day, at the Louvre in Paris.

81 To a fair Lady playing with a Snake,

82 The Night Piece, or a Picture drawn in the Dark, Part of the fourth Bock of Virgil's Æneis transiated, On the Picture of a fair Youth taken after he was dead, 88 On a Brede of divers Colors, woven by four Ladies,

ibid. A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, &c.

ibid, Of a War with Spain, and Fight at Sea,

94 Upon the Death of the Lord Protector,

97 To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return,

On St. James's Park, as lately improved by his Majesty, 101 Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks, in the year 16839

105 To the Queen, upon her Majesty's Birth day, after her happy Recovery from a dangerous Sickness,

107 Sung by Mrs. Knight to her Majesty on ker Birth day. 108 Of her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683,

ibid. Of Tea, commended by her Majesty, Prologue for the Lady. Actors: spoken before King Charles IT:

ibid. Of her Royal Highness, Mother to the Prince of Orange : and

of her Portrait written by the late Duchess of York while Je lived with her,

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To

83

84

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98

109

110

II1 112

To the Duchess of Orleans, when she was taking leave of the Court at Dover,

ibid. Upon her Majesty's new Buildings at Somerset-house, Of a Tree cut in Paper, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing Copy, which for many Years had been lo,

113 Of the Lady Mary, Princess of Orange,

ibid. Of English Verse,

114 Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace, de Arte Poetica: and of the Use of Poetry,

115 Ad Comitem Monumetenjem de Bentivoglio fuo, 117 To Mr. Killigrew, upon his altering his Play Pandora, 118 On the Duke of Monmouth's Expedition into Scotland in the Summer Solstice,

. ibid. To a Friend of the Author, a Person of Honor, who lately

writ a religious Book, intitled Historical Applications,

and occasional Meditations upon several Subječts, 119 To a Person of Honor, upon his incomparable, incomprehen.

fible Poem, intitled The British Princes, To Mr. Creech, on his Translation of Lucretius, The Triple combat, Of an Elegy made by Mrs. Wharton on the Earl of Rochefter,

124 To Chloris,

ibid. Upon our late Loss of the Duke of Cambridge,

125 Infirućtions to a Painter for the drawing of the Posture

and Progress of his Majesty's Forces at Sea, under the Command of His Highness-Royal : together with the Battle and Victory obtained over the Dutch, June 3d, 1665, ibid. A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire: presented to His Majesty King James II. on his Birth-Day,

134 To the Duchess, when he presented this Book to her Royal Highness,

136 Thele Verses were writ in the Tajo of her Royal Highness,

ibid.

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121 I 22

DIVINE POEMS.

Of Divine Love : a Poem in fix Cantoes,
Of the Fear of God, in two Cantoes,
Of Divine Poesy, in two Cantoes,

On the Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer written by Mrs.

Wharton,

154

Some Reflections of His upon the several Petitions of the same

Prayer,

155

On the foregoing Divine Poems,

.

EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, and FRAGMENTS.

157

159

Under a Lady's Picture,

Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira,

ibid.

To one married to an old Man,

158

An Epigram on a painted Lady with ill Teeth, ibid.

An Epigram upon the Golden Medal,

ibid,

Written on a Card that her Majesty tore at Ombre,

To Mr. Granville (now Lord Lansdown) on his Verses to
King James II.

ibid.

Long and Mort Life,

ibid,

Translated out of Spanish.

ibid.

Translated out of French,

ibid.

Some Verses of an imperfe&t Copy designed for a Friend on his

Transation of Ovid's Fasti,

160

On the Statue of King Charles I. at Charing Cross in the

Year 1674,

ibid.

Pride,

161

Epitaph on Sir George Speke,

ibid.

Epitaph on Colonel Charles Cavendish,

162

Epitaph on the Lady Sedley,

163

Epitaph to be written under the Latin Inscription upon the

Tomb of the only Son of the Lord Andover,

164

Epitaph unfinished,

165

The Maid's Tragedy altered,

167

The first Act of the Tragedy of Pompey, translated from the

French of Monfeur Corneille,

189

SPEECHES,

SPEECHES, LETTERS, &c.

201

:

A Speech to the House of Commons, April 22, 1640,

A Speech in Parliament, at a Conference of both Houses in the

Painted Chamber, July 6th, 1641, upon delivering the

Impeachment against Mr. Yufice Crawley,

208

A Speech in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, July 4,

1643 : when Mr. Waller was brought to the Bar, and

had leave given him by the Speaker to say what he could
for himself, before they proceeded to expel him the

House,

218

To the Right Honorable the Earl of Portland,

223

To my Lady Lucy Sidney, upon the Marriage of my Lady

Dorothy, her Sifter, to my Lord Spencer,

224

To my Lady

225
Preface to the first Edition of Mr. Waller's Poems, after the

Refloration ; printed in the Year 1664.

227

Preface to the second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems; printed

in the year 1690.

229

Mr. Waller's Epitaph,

235

DANGER

HIS

MAJESTY

(BEING PRINCE)

Escaped in the Road at SAINT ANDERO,

N

OW had his Highness bid farewel to SPAIN,
And reach'd the fphere of his own pow'r, the

main :

With BRITISH bounty in his thip he feasts
Th' HESPERIAN Princes, his amazed guests,
To find that wat'ry wilderness exceed
The entertainment of their great MADRID.
Healths to both Kings, attended with the roar
Of cannons echo'd from th' affrighted fhore,
With loud resemblance of his thunder, prove
BACCHUS the feed of cloud-compelling Jove:
While to his harp divine ARION fings

The loves, and conquefts, of our ALBION Kings.
Of the fourth EDWARD was his noble fong,
Fierce, goodly, valiant, beautiful, and young:
He rent the crown from vanquish'd HENRY's head;
Rais'd the White Rofe, and trampled on the Red:
Till Love, triumphing o'er the victor's pride,
Brought MARS and WARWICK to the conquer'd fide :
Neglected WARWICK (whose bold hand, like Fate,
Gives and refumes the fceptre of our State)
Woos for his Master; and, with double shame,
Himfelf deluded, mocks the Princely Dame,
The Lady BONA: whom juft anger burns,
And foreign war with civil rage returns.

B

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