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The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke

... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition

Brooke, Henry (1703?-1783)

VOL. I.

JACK THE GIANT QUELLER, AN OPERA.

AIR XI.

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PROLOGUE TO THE EARL OF ESSEX,

PROLOGUE TO THE EARL OF WESTMORLAND,

ANOTHER PROLOGUE TO THE EARL OF WESTMORLAND.

EPILOGUE TO THE PLAY OF WHAT WE MUST ALL COME TO.

TO THE MEMORY OF Lieutenant Colonel HENRY CLEMENTS.

A CHARACTER.

TO Mr. B---

THE PATRIOTISM OF IRELAND,

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VI.

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THE SPARROW and the DOVE.

THE FEMALE SEDUCERS.

LOVE AND VANITY.

CONRADE:

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AIR XI.

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Tune, “To you fair Ladies now on land.”

Justice.
The world, a faithless ocean, tost
By passion's stormy wind,
Is spread with spoils of thousands lost,
The wreck of human kind;
Where all the freight their vessels bear,
Is but a wilful weight of care.

Dol lol, &c.

II

For what can Reason's feeble hand,
Before the helm perform,
Where he can spy nor port, nor land,
To scape from stress, or storm—
Where Hope, amid the raging main,
Her anchor casts,—but casts in vain?

Dol lol, &c.

III

O turn, misguided wights!—return
To us, who smile on shore!
To us, who, yet, your errors mourn,
Your safety who implore!
Your forfeit peace with us renew,
Who shed no tears—except for you.

Dol lol, &c.