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M.DCC.XXXII.

HE O.de for the Year 1730,

Page 1

An Epitaph uçon a Monument on the South-fide

7 of the Chancel in St. Botolph's Aldersgate

Church.

3

Verses occafion'd by a late Sermon, January 30.

ibid.

From the King's-Bench Prifon.

4

The Character of the Lady A--y.

6

An Inscription upon a Monument in Westminker, in Me-

mory of the lare famous Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bart. 7

An Epitaph.

ibid.

Another.

ibid.

Verses on

8

An Epitaph.

Another.

Blasphemy as old as the Creation : Or, the Newgate Di-

svine. A Satyr.

Verses by Mr. Č---1.
An Excellent New Ballad: Or, the true E----h D---n to

be hang'd for a R--pe.

An Esay on the Dunciad.

15

A Copy of Verses taken from the Carmina Quadrages-

malią.

Whether Causes may be mutual? They may.

ibid.

Mr. J. M. S---e, catechised on bis Epifle to Mr. Pope.

19

*Extempore Verses occafion'd by a late Sermette ibid.

TO

ibid.

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II

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To Mrs. M. H. on her working a Coat in Silks.

p. 19

A King at Arms disarmod at Law. A Ballad,

On Mr. M--res going to Law with Mr. Gilliver, infcribd

to Attorney Tibbald,

An Epigram.

23

Anfeuer.

ibid.

An Epigram.

ibid.

Epitaph on the Monument of the Honourable Robert Digby,

and of his Sister the Fionourable Mary Digby, in the

Church of Sherbone, in Dorsetfhire, ereated by their Fa.

ther the Lord Digby.

ibid.

In Imitation of the Xix Idyllium of Theocritus.

24

An Epigram or the celebrated Print inscribd to Sir R---

W-

25

On John Short, Porter at the General Pop-Office.

ibid.

An Epigram.

26

Another.

ibid.

Another.

27

A Sellion of the Cambridge Criticks.

ibid,

The underwritten are by the Author of the Ode to his Grace

the Duke of Buckingham.

30

A Copy of Verfes fent by a Gentleman who writes himself

Philo-Grubæus.

31

To Mr. Bonewitz, on his drawing a curious Picture of a

Chelsea-Pensioner, aged 110.

32

The Complaint ; a Lyric Rhapsody.

On Stephen Duck.

36

To Mr. Stephen Duck the celebrated Wiltshire Poet and

Threber, on his late Prefer ment by her Majesty. ibid.

To Mr. Bavius, Secretary to the Society of Grubftreet. 37

The Order of the Procesion, in Hercic Verse, written at

the latter End of toe English Auguftian Age, by that

celebrated Dramatick Poet, and learned Ornament of

the Society of Grubftreet, Tho, Jordan, Gent.

39

An Epitaph on Mr. Fenton,

43

Ta the Right Honourable Humphrey Parsons, Efq; Lord

Mayor of the City of London.

ibid.

To Alderman Parsons, our new Lord Mare.

46

A Ballad, by a Lady.

ibid.

A# Epitaph.

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