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THE
POEMS
OF
Matthew Prior.
VOL. I.
Chiswick:
FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,
COLLEGE HOUSE.
CONTENTS.
LIFE of Prior, by Dr. Johnson.......
ENCOMIUMS ON PRIOR.
Verses sent to him when under Confinement..
Stanzas on his Carmen Seculare.........
From the Village Curate, by Hurdis..........
Dedication to the Right Hon. the Earl of Dorset and
Middlesex
Preface
Postscript......
On Exod. iii. 14, 1688..
ODES.
Ode. While blooming youth and gay delight..........
Ode. While from our looks, fair Nymph, you guess...
To a Lady, she refusing to continue a Dispute with me,
and leaving me in the Argument.
Ode. The merchant to, secure his treasure..
Presented to the King, on his Majesty's Arrival in Hol-
land after the Queen's Death, 1695.
To Mr. Howard..
1692
86
51
55
.........
95
Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George
Villiers....
Humbly inscribed to the Queen, on the glorious Success
of her Majesty's Arms, 1706...
To Mr. Harley, wounded by Guiscard, 1711.
In Imitation of Horace, Book iii. Ode 2.
Cupid's Promise Paraphrased...
SONGS AND BALLADS.
The Thief and Cordelier.......
Song. In vain you tell your parting lover...............................
Sur la prise de Namur, par les Armes du Roi, l'Année 1692.
....
The same parodied as an English Ballad, on the taking
of Namur, by the King of Great Britain, 1695
The Garland
The Viceroy. A Ballad.
A Ballad, 1715.........
Page
100
101
112
113
Down-hall.
121
129
Twenty-four Songs, set to Music by the most eminent
Masters
..........
Song. If wine and music have the power....
Prologue spoken at Court before the Queen, on her
Birth-day, 1704 .
189
Prologue to the Orphan, represented by some West-
Solomon on the Vanity of the World. In Three Books.