ODE. TO BE PERFORMED BY DR. BRETTLE, AND A CHORUS OF HALES-OWEN CITIZENS. The instrumental part a Viol d'Amour. AIR BY THE DOCTOR. AWAKE! I say, awake, good people! Whilst I do play? How can you sleep, &c. CHORUS OF CITIZENS. Pardon, O! pardon, great musician! Thy strains to hear; To drink, To hear, And keep awake! SOLO BY THE DOCTOR. Hear but this strain-'twas made by Handel, POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM SHENSTONE. IN TWO VOLUMES. COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS: BY THOMAS PARK, ES2. F. S. 4. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed at the Stanhope Press, BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, FOR JOHN SHARPE, OPPOSITE YORK-HOUSE, PICCADILLY. ODES. To Health, 1730... To a Lady of Quality, fitting up her Library, Page 5 1738....... ........ Anacreontic, 1738..... ................................. Written 1739. Upon a Visit to a Lady of Quality, in Winter, 1748...... To Memory, 1748....... 8 10 11 12 14 Written towards the Close of the Year 1748, to William Lyttelton, Esq............... Irregular Ode, after Sickness, 1749.............. 17 Rural Elegance, to the late Duchess of Somerset, 1750.... To Indolence, 1750... 21 31 To a young Lady, somewhat too solicitous about her Manner of Expression........... % Written in a Flower Book of my own colouring, designed for Lady Plymouth, 1753-4 The Dying Kid.... Ode . A Pastoral Ode, to the Hon. Sir Richard SONGS AND BALLADS. ..... 34 35 37 38 A Pastoral Ballad, in Four Parts, 1733......... 44 a Story recorded of her when she was Nancy of the Vale. A Ballad.... Jemmy Dawson. A Ballad. Written about the Time of his Execution, in the Year 51 54 56 |