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If fuch a fight as this can please ye,
"Good madam Pallas, pray be easy,
"To Neptune speak, and he 'Il confent ;'
But he 'll come back the knave he went.'
The goddess, who conceiv'd an hope,
That Horte was deftin'd to a rope,
Believ'd it beft to condefcend

To fpare a foe, to fave a friend :
But, fearing Berkeley might be fcar'd,
She left him Virtue for a guard.·

ODE ON

SCIENCE.

OH, heavenly-born'! in deepest dells

If faireft fcience ever dwells

Beneath the molly cave;

Indulge the verdure of the woods :
With azure beauty gild the floods,

And flowery carpets lave;

For melancholy ever reigns
Delighted in the fylvan fcenes

With fcientific light;

While Dian, huntress of the vales,
*Seeks lulling founds and fanning gales,
Though wrapt from mortal fight.
Yet, goddefs, yet the way explore.
With magic rites and heathen lore

Obftructed and deprefs'd:
Till Wisdom give the facred Nine,
Untaught, not uninfpir'd, to fine,
By Reafon's power redrefs'd.

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When

When Solon and Lycurgus taught,
To moralize the human thought
Of mad opinion's maze,

To erring zeal they gave new laws.
Thy charms, O Liberty, the cause
That blends congenial rays.

Bid bright Aftræa gild the morn,
Or bid a hundred funs be born,
To hecatomb the year;
Without thy aid, in vain the poles,
In vain the zodiac system rolls,
In vain the lunar fphere.

Come, faireft princefs of the throng,
Bring fweet Philofophy along
In metaphyfic dreams;

While raptur'd bards no more behold

A vernal age of purer gold

In Heliconian ftreams.

Drive Thraldom with malignant hand,

To curfe fome other deftin'd land

By Folly led aftray :

Jerne bear on azure wing;
Energic let her foar, and fing
Thy univerfal fway.

So, when Amphion bade the lyre
To more majestic sound aspire,

Behold the madding throng,
In wonder and oblivion drown'd,
To fculpture turn'd by magic found
And petrifying fong.

CON

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CONTENTS

THE FIRST

ODE

VOLUM E.

DE to the Hon. Sir William Temple, 1689. Page to the Athenian Society, 1691.

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Lines written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book, 1699. 20 Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition.

Ballad on the Game of Traffic.

Another Ballad, occafioned by the preceding one.
The Discovery.

The Problem, that my Lord Berkeley stinks when
he is in Love.

Description of a Salamander, 1706.

To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded the

British Forces in Spain.

On the Union.

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On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

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Apollo outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch,
afterwards Countefs of Winchelsea.

Vanbrugh's Houfe, built from the Ruins of
Whitehall.

The Hiftory of Vanbrugh's Houfe..

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Baucis and Philemon, 1708.

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gal.

Elegy

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