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The wounded arm would furnish all their rooms,
And bleed for ever fcarlet in the looms:
Boileau with this would plume his artful pen:
And can your mufe be filent? Think again.

Spare your advice; and fince you have begun, Finish your own defign; the work is done.

Done nothing's done! nor the dead colours laid,

And the most glorious scenes fland undisplay'd: A thousand generous actions close the rear;

A thousand virtues, still behind, stand crowding to appear.

The queen herself, the charming queen fhould'

grace

The noble piece, and in an artful place
Soften war's horror with her lovely face.

Who can omit the queen's aufpicious fmile,

The pride of the fair fex, the goddess of our ifle?
Who can forget, what all admir'd of late,
Her fears for him, her prudence for the state?
Difguifing cares, fhe fmooth'd her looks with

grace,

Doubts in her heart, and pleasure in her face, As danger did approach, her fpirits role, And, putting on the king, difmay'd his foes. Now, all in joy, the gilds the cheerful court; In every glance defcending angels fport. As on the hills of Cynthus, or the meads Of cool Eurotas, when Diana leads The chorus of her nymphs, who there advance A thousand shining maids, and form the dance; The stately goddess with a graceful pride, Sweet and majestic, does the figure guide, Treading in just and easy measures round; The filver arrows on her fhoulder found; She walks above them all. Such is the fcene Of the bright circle, and the brighter queen. Thefe fubjects do, my lord, your skill command, Thefe none may touch with an unhallow'd hand: Tender the ftrokes inuft be, and nicely writ, Difguis'd encomiums must be hid in wit, Which modefty, like theirs, will e'er admit. Who made no other steps to fuch a throne, But to deferve, and to receive, the crown.

WRITTEN AT ALTHROP,
In a blank Leaf of Waller's Poems,
UPON SEEING VANDYKE'S PICTURE OF THE
OLD LADY SUNDERLAND.

VANDYKE had colours, softness, fire, and art,
When the fair Sunderland inflam'd his heart.
Waller had numbers, fancy, wit, and fire;
And Sachariffa was his fond defire.

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Why then at Althrop feem her charms to faint,
In these sweet numbers and that glowing paint?
This happy feat a fairer miftrefs warms;
This fhining offspring has eclips'd her charms:
The different beauties in one face we find;
Soft Amoret with brightest Sacharissa join'd.
As high as Nature reach'd, their art could foar;
But the ne'er made a finish'd piece before.
VOL. VI.

VERSES,

WRITTEN FOR THE TOASTING-GLASSES OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, 1703.

Duchefs of St. Alban's.

THE line of Vere, fo long renown'd in arms,
Concludes with luftre in St. Alban's charms.
Her conquering eyes have made their race com-
plete;

They rofe in valour, and in beauty set.

Duchefs of Beaufort.

Offspring of a tuneful fire,

Bleft with more than mortal fire;
Likeness of a mother's face,
Bleft with more than mortal grace;
You with double charms surprise,
With his wit, and with her eyes.

Lady Mary Churchill.

Faireft and latest of the beauteous race,
Bleft with your parents wit, and her fitft bloom-
ing face;

Born with our liberties in William's reign,
Your eyes alone that liberty reftrain.

Duchefs of Richmond.

Of two fair Richmonds different ages boaft, Theirs was the first, and ours the brightest toast; Th' adorers offerings prove who's most divine, They facrific'd in water, we in wine.

Lady Sunderland.

All Nature's charms in Sunderland appear, Bright as her eyes, and as her reafon clear: Yet ftill their force, to men not fafely known, Seems undiscover'd to herself alone.

Mademoiselle Spanheime.

Admir'd in Germany, ador'd in France,
Your charms to brighter glory here advance;
The stubborn Britons own your beauty's claim,
And with their native toafts enrol your name.

ON THE

COUNTESS DOWAGER OF ****. COURAGE, dear Moll, and drive away despair, Mopfa, who in her youth was scarce thought fair, In spite of age, experience, and decays, Sets up for charming, in her fading days; Snuffs her dim eyes to give one parting blow Have at the heart of every ogling beau! This goodly goofe, all feather'd like a jay, So gravely vain, and fo demurely gay, Last night, t' adorn the court, did overload Her bald buff forehead with a high commode

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Her steps were manag'd with fuch tender art,
As if each board had been a lover's heart,
In all her air, in every glance, was feen
A mixture ftrange, 'twixt fifty and fifteen.
Admiring fops about her crowding prefs;
Hampden himself delivers their addrefs,
Which the, accepting with a nice disdain,
Owns them her fubjects, and begins to reign:
Fair queen of Fopland is her royal style;
Fopland the greatest part of this great isle!
Nature did ne'er fo equally divide

A female heart, 'twixt piety and pride:
Her waiting-maids prevent the peep of day,
And, all in order, on her toilet lay
Prayer-books, patch-boxes, fermon notes, and
paint,

At once t' improve the finner and the faint.
Farewell, friend Moll; expect no more from me;
But if you would a full defcription see,
You'll find her fomewhere in the Litany,
With pride, vain-glory, and hypocrify.

VERSES BY LORD HALIFAX,

From Dr. Z. Grey's MSS.

ALL the materials are the fame Of beauty and defire,

In a fair woman's goodly frame

No brightness is without a flame,

No flame without a fire.,

Then tell me what thofe creatures are,

That would be thought both chaste and fair?

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Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore,
Epitaph on Sir Palmes Fairbone's Tomb in
Weflminster Abbey. Sacred to the Im-
mortal Memory of Sir Palmes Fairbone,
Knight, Governor of Tangier; in execu-
tion of which Command, he was mortally
wounded by a Shot from the Moors, then
befieging the Town, in the forty-fixth Year
of his Age, October 24. 1680.
Under Mr. Milton's Picture, before his Para-
dife Loft,

ib.

163

ib.

164

On the Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady,
who died at Bath, and is there interred, ib.
Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Pafton, of Bur.
ningham, in Norfolk,

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On the Monument of the Marquis of Win-
cheiter,

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Epilogue to the Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling
Flutter. [By Sir George Etheredge, 1676.] 183
Epilogue to Mithridates King of Pontus, [By
Mr. N. Lee, 1678.]
Prologue to Cæfar Borgia. [By Mr. N. Lee,
1680.]
Prologue to Sophonisba. At Oxford, 1680,
A Prologue,

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184

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185

ib.

Epilogue to a Tragedy called Tamerlane,
(By Mr. Saunders.]
Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1681, 186
Prologue to his Royal Highness, upon his
First appearance at the Duke's Theatre,
after his return from Scotland, 1682,
Prologue to the Earl of Effex. [By Mr. T.
Banks, 1682.] Spoken to the King and
Queen at their coming to the Houle,
An Epilogue for the King's House,

Prologue to the Royal Brothers; or, the Per-
fian Prince. [By Mr. Southern, 1682.]

ib

187

165

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Epigram on the Duchefs of Portsmouth's

Another Epilogue, intended to have been

Picture,

ib.

Defcription of Old Jacob Tonfon,

fpoken to the Play, before it was forbid-

ib.

den laft Summer,

191

Epitaph upon the Earl of Rochester's being
difimiffed from, the Treasury, in 1687,
Epitaph intended for Dryden's Wife,

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