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CONTENTS.

HE WIFE of BATH, from Chaucer,

VERTUMNUS and POMONA, from Ovid's meta-

morphofes,

MITATIONS,

I. Of CHAUCER,

II. Of SPENCER.

The ALLEY,

Page

17

66

73

74

76

III. Of WALLER. On a lady fenging to her

LUTE,

On a FAN of the author's defign, in which

was painted the story of CEPHALIS and

PROCRIS, with the motto AURA VENI,

77

ib.

78

WEEPING,

VI. Earl of DORSET.

V. Earl of Rochester.

On SILENCE,

79

ARTEMISIA,

81

82

PHRYNE,

VII. Of Dr SWIFT.

COUNTRY-PARSON,

83

The happy life of a

PROLOGUE to the SATIRES, in an epifle to

Dr. ARBUTHNOT,

SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE imitated

The fecond book of the fatires of Horace, Sat. I. III

The fecond book of the fatires of Horace, Sat. II. 125

The

The first book of the epiftles of Horace, Ep. I. 138

The first book of the epiflles of Horace, Ep. VI. 150

The fecond book of the epiftles of Horace, Ep. I. 158

The fecond book of the epiftles of Horace, Ep. II. 188

SATIRES of Dr JOHN DONNE, Dean of St Paul's,

On receiving from the Right Honourable the

Lady FRANCES SHIRLEY a ftandish and two

243

255

pens,

268

THE

WIFE OF BATH.

From CHAUCER.

EHOLD the woes of matrimonial life,

Band hear with rev'rence an experienc'd wife!

To dear-bought wifdom give the credit due,
And think, for once, a woman tells you true.
In all these trials I have borne a part,

I was myself the fcourge that caus'd the smart;
For, fince fifteen, in tiumph have I led

Five captive husbands from the church to bed.

5

Chrift faw a wedding once, the Scripturè fays; And faw but one, 'tis thought, in all his days; 10 Whence fome infer, whofe confcience is too nice, No pious Chriftian ought to marry twice.

But let them read, and folye me, if they can, The words addrefs'd to the Samaritan:

Five times in lawful wedlock she was join'd; 15 And fure the certain flint was ne'er defin'd. Increase and multiply, was Heav'n's command, And that's a text I clearly understand.

This too,
"Let men their fires and mothers leave
"And to their dearer wives for ever cleave." 29
More wives than one by Solomon were try'd,

Or elfe the wifeft of mankind's bely'd.
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