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A DIALOGUE.

POPE. SIN

IN CE my old friend is grown fo great,
As to be minister of state,

I'm told (but 'tis not true I hope)
That Craggs will be asham'd of Pope.
CRAGGS. Alas! if I am fuch a creature,

To grow the worse for growing greater;
Why faith, in fpite of all my brags,
'Tis Pope must be asham'd of Craggs.

EPIGRAM.

Engraved on the Collar of a Dog, which I gave to his Royal Highness.

I

Am his Highness' dog at Kew;

Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you?

IN

EPIGRAM.

Occafioned by an Invitation to Court.

N the lines that you fent, are the Muses and Graces; You've the Nine in your wit, and the Three in your

faces.

A FRAG

A FRAGMENT.

WHAT are the falling rills, the pendant shades,

The morning bowers, the evening colonnades,

But foft receffes for th' uneafy mind

To figh unheard in, to the paffing wind!

So the ftruck deer, in fome fequefter'd part,
Lies down to die (the arrow in his heart)
There hid in fhades, and wafting day by day,
Inly he bleeds, and pants his foul away.

VERSES left by Mr. POPE, on his lying in the same Bed which WILMOT the celebrated Earl of Rochester slept in, at Adderbury, then belonging to the Duke of Argyle, July 9th, 1739.

ITH no poetic ardour fir'd

WITH

I prefs the bed where Wilmot lay;

"That here he lov'd, or here expir'd,

Begets no numbers grave, or gay.

But in thy roof, Argyle, are bred

Such thoughts as prompt the brave to lie
Stretch'd out in honour's nobler bed,
Beneath a nobler roof-the sky.

Such flames as high in patriots burn,
Yet stoop to bless a child or wife;
And fuch as wicked kings may mourn,
When freedom is more dear than life.

CON

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Pollio,

WINDSOR-FOREST,

WINTER, the fourth Pastoral,

MESSIAH, a Sacred Eclogue in imitation of Virgil's

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,

Two Chorufes to the Tragedy of Brutus,

40.

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57

77

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Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato,

Epilogue to Jane Shore,

SAPPHO to PHAON, an Epiftle from Ovid,
ELOISA to ABELARD, an Epiftle,

The TEMPLE of FAME,

160

162

164

183.

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JANUARY

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344

WALLER, of a Lady finging to ber Lute,

346

On a Fan,

347

COWLEY, the Garden,

ib.

WEEPING,

349

E. of ROCHESTER, on Silence,

350

E. of DORSET, ARTEMISIA,

352

PHRYNE,

353

SWIFT, the Happy Life of a Country Parson,

354

A Farewell to London,

355

A Dialogue,

357

Epigram engraved on the Collar of a Dog,

ib.

Occafioned by an Invitation to Court,

ib.

A Fragment,

358

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

John Dickinson

1786

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