He indulges the suggestions of Spleen: an elegy to the He repeats the song of Collin, a discerning Shepherd; lamenting the state of the woollen manufaćtury. 65 He compares his humble fortune with the distress of others; and his subjection to Delia, with the mi- serable servitude of an African save. Taking a view of the country from his retirement, be is led to meditate on the charaEters of the ancient Britons. Written at the time of a rumoured tax upon luxury. RefleEtions suggested by his situation. He takes occasion from the fate of Eleanor of Bretagne, to suggest the imperfeEt pleajures of a solitery life. 90 To Delia, with some ficwers; complaining how much bis ELE- E L E G Y XXVI. Describing the sorrow of an ingenuous mind, on the melancholy event of a licentious amour. 97 II. ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c. Rural elegance : an ode to the late duchess of Somerset. Written 1750. 105 Ode to memory. 1748. 117 The princess Elizabeth: a ballad alluding to a story recorded of her, when she was prisoner at Woodstock, 1554. 120 Ode to a young lady, somewhat too sollicitous about ber manner of expression. 123 Nancy of the vale. A ballad. 125 Ode to indolence. 1750. 128 Ode to health. 1730. 130 To a lady of quality, fitting up her library. 1738. 133 Upon a visit to the same in winter. 1748. 135 An irregular ode after fickness. 1749. 137 Written in a flower book of my own colouring, designed for lady Plimouth. 1753-4. 142 Anacreontic. 1738. 143 Ode. Written 1739. 145 The dying kid. 147 Songs, Songs, written chiefly between the year 1737 and 149-169 170 172 174 181 185 III. LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR. - 202 Flirt and Pbil; a decision for the ladies. 201 in marriage to a person undeserving ber. 203 207 ibid. 213 214 215 - 216 ibid. 218 243 262 285 The judgment of Hercules. 308 321 333 The End of the First VOLUME. Ah! smiles of my to high They tell, tell me ני I have left my sony hear Recollection or The Shepherd's Garlando on filing of Four News Paftoral Ballads, supillen after lewing Cheltenham, 1743. Hlini Fonker, bis mollia frala, ascori; Mie nemnd, hic ipro limun Ye Shepherds so chearfoil & gay But why do I languish in van That kind your free sheep any plain Why wander this pensively here If mmq wer happen to stray or why have I come from the plan pall the poor vageants again Where I fed on y Allow me to mufen favourite mail Nortalk of the change it yo find the pride of these vallsys is flow Norr ona ona was more active than 9 Alas where with her I have tray haar Payl is be hired) I could wander with pleasure allo Now I know what it is to have strove . Wherefore'd the fair hynoph, "foreg With a mixture of doubtsdesire What anguish I felt at What it is to admire & to love yil 9 thought aborito not be so And to have what we loved admire has to pain gishe san mi dipa Åh! land forth my flock ning She iofsuch a lunguajhning misou And the damps of the Evining yepill my patt. I could no where.diziar Alas! I am faint and fortorn So wartly she bade me adien, 9 I hour bid deur Phylk is for wall sthaught that she hade murska Srice Phyllis vonchsaga lock Inwer once dreamt of my Crook . That I prize'd the dear moments no e my tine more |