See in each sprite fome various bent appear! In pastry kings and queens th' allotted mite to spend. Here, as each feafon yields a different store, Each feafon's ftores in order ranged been; Apples with cabbage-net y-cover'd o'er, Galling full fore th' unmoney'd wight, are seen ; And goofe-b'rie clad in liv'ry red or green; And here of lovely dye, the cath'rine pear, Fine pear! as lovely for thy juice, I ween: O may no wight e'er pennylefs come there, Left fmit with ardent love he pine with hopeless care! See! cherries here, ere cherries yet abound, Rend'ring thro' Britain's ifle Salopia's praifes known. SHREWSBURY cakes. Admir'd SALOPIA! that with venial pride. Her daughters lovely, and her ftriplings brave: CONTENTS. I. ELEGIES on feveral Occafions. He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes occa- ELEGY II. ELEGY VIII. ELEGY XI. ELEGY XIV. Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes ELEGY XVI. In memory of a private family in Worcestershire.- He fuggefts the advantages of birth to a perfon of merit, He compares his humble fortune with the diftreffes of others, Taking a view of the country from his retirement, he is led ELEGY XXII. 86 Written in the year · when the rights of fepulture were He takes occafion from the fate of Eleanor of Bretagne, to To Delia, with fome flowers; complaining how much his Defcribing the forrow of an ingenuous mind, on the melan- choly event of a licentious amour. II. ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c. The princess Elizabeth: a ballad alluding to a story recorded of her, when she was prifoner at Woodstock, 1554. 124 Songs, written chiefly between the year 1737 and 1742. A paftoral ode, to the honourable Sir Richard Lyttleton. 169 |