. . Epilogue to the Indian Emperor Prologue to Sir Martin Marr-All Prologue, spoken the first day of the King's House Epilogue to the Second Part of the Conquest of Prologue, spoken at the opening of the New House 58 Prologue to the University of Oxford Epilogue, intended to have been spoken by the Lady Epilogue to Mithridates, King of Pontus Prologue to Troilus and Cressida Prologue to the University of Oxford Prologue to His Royal Highness An Epilogue for the King's House Prologue to the Loyal Brother . Prologue to the King and Queen . Prologue to the University of Oxford Epilogue, spoken by Mrs. Marshall Prologue to the University of Oxford Prologue to the University of Oxford 91 94 Epilogue to Albion and Albanius Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia TRANSLATIONS FROM THEOCRITUS, LUCRETIUS, AND Preface to the Second Miscellany Amaryllis; or, the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus The beginning of the First Book of Lucretius The beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius The latter part of the Third Book of Lucretius. From the Fifth Book of Lucretius The Third Ode of the First Book of Horace The Ninth Ode of the First Book of Horace SONGS, ODES, AND A MASQUE. THE FAIR STRANGER, A SONG.* HAPPY and free, securely blest, 5 Till you descending on our plains, 10 Your smiles have more of conquering charms But in your eyes, oh! there's the spell, 15 * This song is a compliment to the Duchess of Portsmouth, on her first coming to England. D. 1 VOL. III. ON THE YOUNG STATESMEN. CLARENDON had law and sense, Clifford was fierce and brave; Bennet's grave look was a pretence, And Danby's matchless impudence Help'd to support the knave. 5 But Sunderland, Godolphin, Lory, 'Twill turn all politics to jests, To be repeated like John Dory, When fiddlers sing at feasts. 10 Protect us, mighty Providence, What would these madmen have? V. 6. But Sunderland] This nobleman had certainly great and various abilities, with a complete versatility of genius, and a most insinuating address; but he was totally void of all principles, moral or religious, and a much more abandoned character than Shaftesbury, whom it is so common to calumniate. He certainly urged James II. to pursue arbitrary and illegal measures, that he intended should be his ruin, and betrayed him to the Prince of Orange. The Abbé de Longuerue relates, that Dr. Massey, of Christ Church, assured him, he once received an order from King James to expel twenty-four students of that college in Oxford, if they did not embrace popery. Massey, astonished at the order, was advised by a friend to go to London, and show it to the king ; who assured him he had never given him such an order, and commended Massey for not having obeyed it; yet still this infatuated monarch continued to trust Sunderland. Dr. J. W. |
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