the camp; fuperior in council, and equal in arms, to the first characters of antiquity; whofe Splendid and important fervices, big with renown to himself and honour and advantage to his country, still are, and ever will be fresh in the memory of the nation,-direct us naturally to look up to your Lordship for present and powerful relief. The goodnefs of that heart, that feels fo acutely for the forrows and fufferings of private objects, cannot but yearn with pity at the alarming miseries of the aggregate, and glow with impatience to alleviate them.

May then Providence re-establish your Lordfhip's health, and, as you have been a private, render you a public bleffing to mankind! May He bless you, in his goodnefs to these kingdoms, with ftrength and spirits to encounter the difficulties and fuftain the burden of a public character at this awful period of national danger and diftrefs; give vigour and efficacy to your deliberations, and perpetuate to your illuftrious family the right of adoration from the gratitude of a devoted country rescued

from

from deftruction by your attention, integrity, and virtue.

Impreffed with thefe hopes from an anxiety for the welfare of my King and Country, I remain, my Lord,

7

CONTENTS

FIRST

O F THE

VOLUME.

N the late Tumults and Conflagrations in London, 1780,
the latin Timble lens of Lord Mansfield's Manufcripts.

page I

To the Right Honourable Lord Thurlow, Lord High Chancellor

of Great Britain, on his recovery from his late illness

On Scipio, an excellent Hunter

--5

8

The Bedford Seffions, or Juftice delineated, a Poem by the late

Mr. Priaux, mafter of the Free Grammar School of Bedford

Epitaph on a Bon Vivant

on ditto

9

13

ib.

On Dreams, from Claudian, Latin and English

14

On Homer's Country, from Sanazarius, Latin and English

ib.

On the City of Venice, from the fame, Latin and English

On Zoilus, from Buchanan, Latin and English

16

ib.

An bona Intentio ad Bonitatem Actionis fufficit? an Impromptu,

to William Harris Jeffereys, efq; of Bath

The Invitation to Dinner, to the Right Honourable the Countefs

of Berkeley

20

To Sir John Pr, Bart. late Member for the county of

L--c-ft-r

18

ib.

19

24

To Sir James L--g-m, bart. on offering himself a candidate for

the town of N-rth-mpt-on, in 1774
26

To Major Ball, of Dingley, in the county of Northampton, with

a pipe of red port from a merchant in London without the

Major's explicit orders.

27

Epitaph

Epitaph on the Author's Father the Reverend Benjamin Rogers, Rector of Carleton in the county of Bedford, aged 86

30

To the Corporation of Northampton, patrons of the Free Grammar
School there, on the repairs of the school-premises
The Return, or Lovely Kitty, a pastoral song

32

35

The Glutton, a character. To E Litchfield, efq; Northampton 37 Effay on Dreams. To the Right Honourable Lady Craven 40 Ode of Waller, altered by a friend

MARTIAL, Book I. Epigram 1. To the reader

Book I. Epigram 2.

on the danger of Publication "" Book I. Epigram 18.

,

Book II. Epigram 16. Viper concealed in the mouth

47

49

On the test or Sincerity of Grief 53 On a Child killed by the bite of a of a marble ftatue of a Bear ib. To the Reverend William Tasker, &c.

The punishment of Envy

55

ib.

57

60

"" Book I. Epigram 14. on his tranflation of Pindar, Book I. Epigram 22. VI. Epigram 87. The Vanity of Hopes and Fears, to the Reverend A. T. Hupfman, of Berkely in Glocestershire Rara Avis, &c. to the Right Honourable Earl Verney Ovid's first Heroic Epiftle " Penelope to Ulyffes" with notes, infcribed to the Right Honourable Countess Spencer To Sir Philip Jennings Clerke, bart. on his uniformly-spirited, independent, and difinterested conduct in Parliament MARTIAL, Book III. Epigram 8. To Dicky Clack, on the wretchedness of Envy

61

83

97

Character of Ep. Wilfon, (Sodor and Man) in notes to ditto 98 MARTIAL, Book VI. Epigram 25. On the illuftrious ruins of old Greece

101

Book II. Epig. 69. Adverfity the School of Wisdom. To a modern clericat Tigellius well known in London ib. Epitaph on Mrs. W.

102

To Mifs Eleanor O'Brien, of Blatherwick, Northamptonshire 103 To the fame, on her faying the Author had flattered her in the foregoing verfes

104

Gay's fable of the Hare and many Friends, turned into Latin, and infcribed to Sir Gillies Payne, bart. of Tempsford-Hall, in the County of Bedford

107

The Lafs of the Hill, a Song, Latin and English, infcribed to Mr. Edward Barnett, attorney

114

The Stray Nymph, by Ambrose Philips, Latin and English, infcribed to the Reverend Richard Chapman

120

The

The Lapland Lover, from the Spectator, Latin and English, inscri

bed to the Reverend John Levett

To Mr. Webster, of Dean, in the county of Northampton

On Doctor Lufcus, Latin and English

Martial, Book I. Epigram 59

126

131

133

ib.

ib.

134

135

137

139

ib.

Given Wealth beyond the reach

141

Reafon for refusing a Copy of

ib.

Book I. Epigram 79.

True Freedom, to the Rev. C. L.

titude

143

Book I. Epigram 7. Arria and Pætus; or Female For

Book II. Epigram 70. Splendid Meanness

Wealth and Meannefs; an Epigram to J. P. efq;

144

145

146

On the Charitable Inftitutions at Church-Langton, projected by

my late worthy and ingenious friend the Reverend William Hanbury, Rector of that parish

147

155

Wood's Hotel, under the Piazzas in Covent-Garden
On a certain Noble Tory, on an unnatural coalition of parties ib.
Martial, Book I. Epigram 6. On Regulus's danger from the fall
of his Riding Houfe

157

159

Martial, Book I. Epigram 35. The Poverty of Ports; infcribed to the Reverend Mr. Tasker, the Tranflator of Pindar A Monumental Infcription defigned for the Tomb of a Relation

160

Ovid's fifth Epiftle "none to Paris," Latin and English; infcribed to the Duchefs of Devonshire

161

Argument to ditto

162

General Remarks on Ovid; and reafons why this Epiftle of "Anone to Paris" is admired beyond the others

Monumental Infcription for my Nephew, Thomas Rogers, buried

at Eaton Socon in the County of Bedford

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