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On a Brede of divers Colours, woven by four Ladies.... 131

Of a War with Spain, and Fight at Sea..........

Upon the Death of the Lord Protector

On St. James's Park, as lately improved by his Majesty. 136

Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks, in the year

Of her Majesty, on New-year's Day, 1683

Of Tea, commended by her Majesty..

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Of her Royal Highness, Mother to the Prince of Orange:

and of her Portrait, written by the late Duchess of

York while she lived with her

Upon her Majesty's new Buildings at Somerset House... 145

Of a Tree cut in Paper..........

Of the Lady Mary, Princess of Orange.....

Of English Verse ...............................

Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace,

De Arte Poeticâ, and of the Use of Poetry

Ad Comitem Monumentensem de Bentivoglio suo........

On the Duke of Monmouth's Expedition into Scotland

in the Summer Solstice.......

The Triple Combat.

Of an Elegy made by Mrs. Wharton on the Earl of

Upon our late Loss of the Duke of Cambridge..

Instructions to a Painter, for the drawing of the Posture

and Progress of his Majesty's Forces at Sea, under

the Command of his Highness Royal; together with

the Battle and Victory obtained over the Dutch, June

3, 1665

Mr. Waller, when he was at Sea......

156

A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire: presented

to his Majesty King James II. on his Birth-day........ 166

These Verses were writ in the Tasso of her Royal High-

The Battle of the Summer Islands, in Three Cantos.

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Of Divine Love. A Poem. In Six Cantos.

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On the Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer, written by

Mrs. Wharton........

Some Reflections of his upon the several Petitions in the

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To the Queen, occasioned upon sight of her Majesty's

To the Queen-Mother of France, upon her Landing...... 202

The Country to my Lady of Carlisle..

To Phyllis........

To my Lord of Northumberland, upon the Death of his

To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery.. 207

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To a Lady, singing a Song of his composing..

To the Mutable Fair.....

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To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen..........................

To Chloris......

To a Lady in Retirement.

To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some Parts

of the Bible..........

To Mr. Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a Song of

mine, in the year 1635.......

To Sir William D'Avenant, upon his Two First Books

of Gondibert. Written in France.....

To my worthy Friend Mr. Wase, the Translator of

To my worthy Friend Mr. Evelyn, upon his Translation

of Lucretius......

To Mr. Creech, on his Translation of Lucretius

To my worthy Friend Sir Tho. Higgons, upon his Trans-

lation of the Venetian Triumph.

To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves...... 230

To my Lady Morton, on New Year's Day, at the Louvre

To a Fair Lady, playing with a Snake..................................................................

A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Great-

ness, and joint Interest, of his Highness and this Na-

To the King, upon his Majesty's happy Return.................

To the Queen, upon her Majesty's Birth-Day, after her

happy Recovery from a dangerous Sickness

To the Duchess of Orleans, when she was taking leave of

the Court at Dover.........

To a Lady, from whom he received the Copy of the

Poem entitled, 'Of a Tree cut in Paper,' which for

many years had been lost..................

To Mr. Killegrew, upon his altering his Play, Pandora,

from a Tragedy into a Comedy, because not approved

To a Friend of the Author, a Person of Honour, who

lately writ a Religious Book, entitled, Historical

Applications, and occasional Meditations, upon se-

veral Subjects'..

To a Person of Honour, upon his incomparable, incom-

prehensible Poem, entitled, The British Princes'.... 249

To Chloris........

To the Duchess, when he presented this Book to her

Royal Highness........

THE

LIFE OF EDMUND WALLER.

BY

DR. JOHNSON.

EDMUND WALLER was born on the third of March, 1605, at Coleshill in Hertfordshire. His father was Robert Waller, Esquire, of Agmondesham in Buckinghamshire, whose family was originally a branch of the Kentish Wallers; and his mother was the daughter of John Hampden, of Hampden in the same county, and sister to Hampden, the zealot of rebellion.

His father died while he was yet an infant, but left him a yearly income of three thousand five hundred pounds; which, rating together the value of money and the customs of life, we may reckon more than equivalent to ten thousand at the present time.

He was educated, by the care of his mother, at Eton; and removed 'afterwards to King's College in Cambridge. He was sent to parliament in his eighteenth, if not in his sixteenth year, and fre-` quented the court of James the First, where he heard a very remarkable conversation, which the writer of the Life prefixed to his works, who seems to have been well informed of facts, though he may sometimes err in chronology, has delivered as indubitably certain :

He found Dr. Andrews, Bishop of Winchester,

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