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The Works of Mr. Robert Gould

In Two Volumes. Consisting of those Poems [and] Satyrs Which were formerly Printed, and Corrected since by the Author; As also of the many more which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd from his Own Original Copies [by Robert Gould]
Gould, Robert

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VOLUME the FIRST. [POEMS].
  
[dedication]
  
On the ensuing POEMS OF Mr. ROBERT GOULD,
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[Songs.]
 I. 
SONG I. Fatal Constancy.
 II. 
SONG II. The Mistress.
 III. 
SONG III. The March Chick.
 IV. 
SONG IV. A Pastoral Dialogue.
 V. 
SONG V. Wit and Beauty.
 VI. 
SONG VI. The Complaint.
 VII. 
SONG VII. The Answer.
 VIII. 
SONG VIII. Vertue the greater Charm.
 IX. 
SONG IX. The unwilling Inconstant.
 X. 
SONG X. Falshood excus'd.
 XI. 
SONG XI. The Wanderer fix'd
 XII. 
SONG XII. No Life if no Love.
 XIII. 
SONG XIII. Pity if you'd be pity'd.
 XIV. 
SONG XIV. The reasonable Request.
 XV. 
SONG XV. The Hopeless Comfort.
 XVI. 
SONG XVI. The Fruitless Caution.
 XVII. 
SONG XVII. The Invocation.
 XVIII. 
SONG XVIII. The Enfranchisement.
 XIX. 
SONG XIX. Help at Hand.
 XX. 
SONG XX. The Dream.
 XXI. 
SONG XXI. The Enquiry.
 XXII. 
SONG XXII. The Boon.
 XXII. 
SONG XXII. Nothing wanting to Love.
 XXIV. 
SONG XXIV. The Enquiry resolv'd.
 XXV. 
SONG XXV. The Caution.
 XXVI. 
SONG XXVI. The Lover's Fortune.
 XXVII. 
SONG XXVII. The Tyranny of Love.
 XXVIII. 
SONG XXVIII. To Mirtillo.
 XXIX. 
SONG XXIX. Silvia.
 XXX. 
SONG XXX. Women's Vows.
 XXXI. 
SONG XXXI. The Farewel.
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Love Verses.
  
The Captive.
  
To Cælia, desiring his Absence.
  
The Request.
  
Love can't be hid.
  
Despair.
  
The vain Pursuit.
  
The Hopeless Lover.
  
The first Sight of Silvia.
  
Silvia Luke-warm.
  
Silvia kind.
  
Silvia in the Country.
  
A Letter from Silvia.
  
Silvia yet in the Country.
  
Silvia Return'd.
  
To Silvia, On deferring our Nuptials.
  
Silvia's Indifference.
  
Silvia Perjur'd.
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Miscellanies.
  
On the new Edition of Godfrey of Bulloigne in 1687.
  
To Philip Ayres Esq; On his Poems and Translations, &c.
  
PROLOGUE, Design'd for my Play of the Rival Sisters.
  
EPITAPH, On Mrs. Jane Roderick.
  
EPITAPH, On Mrs. Mary Alexander, in Broad-Somerford Church.
  
Reflections on the Life and Death of a certain Miser.
  
Advice to a Friend in Distress.
  
To Julian Secretary to the Muses.
  
To a Friend in Wales, on his Neglect of writing to me.
  
To my Lord Chamberlain at Bath.
  
To Mr. Giles Frost.
  
To the much Honoured Gilbert Gerrard-Cosen Esq; on the Report of his being Dead.
  
In Answer to a Copy of Verses of Major Coleman's; whom I fail'd to meet according to Promise.
  
To Charles Duncomb Esq, On his Enlargement.
  
To my Lord of Dorset on his Installment.
  
To the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.
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Occasional Verses To several Ladies, &c.
  
Advice to a fine young Lady.
  
To a Gentlewoman who had written many fine Things, and not seen Mrs. Phillips's Poems.
  
To Madam B. occasion'd by a Copy of Verses of my Lady Ann Baynton's.
  
To a very Vertuous Gentlewoman, on her being traduc'd, &c.
  
To Madam L.
  
To the Happy Mother.
  
To my Lady Long:
  
To my Lady Ann Baynton on the 28th of April, her Birth-Day.
  
To my Lady Abingdon.
  
To my Lady Peterborow on her saying she did not like Panegyrick.
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EPISTLES From the Country.
  
To my Lord of Abingdon at his Country House.
  
To Mr. Knight from the Country.
  
To Mr. R. Trowe from the Country.
  
To the Reverend Mr. Francis Henery Cary, from the Country.
  
To Mr. Lowin, from the Country.
  
The DREAM.
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HYMENEALS:
  
To my Lord Eland, on his Marriage and Return, &c.
  
To Sir Edward Nevil Baronet, On his Marriage.
  
To an unknown Relation; Hearing he was happily Married.
  
Of Adorissa's Second Marriage with Mr. Grevil.
  
To Dr. Harding and his Lady; Some time after their Marriage.
  
On my Lord of Dorset's Marriage with the Lady Mary Compton.
  
On my Lord of Abingdon's Marriage with the Lady Wenman.
  
To his Grace the Duke of Beaufort on his Marriage with the Lady Mary Sackville.
  
On the Marriage of Sir James Long Baronet, with the Honourable Madam Henrietta Greville.
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LUCINIALS:
  
To the much Honour'd James Hunte of Popham, Esq; on the Birth of his Son and Heir.
  
To Henry Bayntun Esq; on the Birth of his Son and Heir.
  
To Mr. Mansell and his Lady, on the Birth of their Son and Heir.
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Funeral Elegies.
  
To the Memory of Mr. John Oldham.
  
To the Memory of Edmund Waller, Esq.
  
On the Death of Mr. Dryden.
  
To Mr. Trowe, on the Death of Madam Goddard.
  
To Mr. Lawrence, on the Death of his Excellent Wife.
  
To the Memory of Mrs. Mary Peachley.
  
On the Death of Madam Pool's Son and Heir; Born Eight Months after his Fathers Decease.
  
To the Memory of that Worthy Gentleman Colonel Edward Cooke.
  
To the Honourable Colonel Henry Chiver, on the Death of Lionel Duckett, Esq
  
On the Death of the Famous Musick-Master Mr. Henry Purcell.
  
To my Lady Long, on the Death of Sir Giles Long Baronet, her Grandson.
  
To Sir James Long, Baronet.
  
To the Memory of Mr. James Margetts who died of the Small Pox in his Voyage to Pensilvania.
  
On the untimely Death of Mr. John Cary, Kill'd in a Duel.
  
On the Death of the much Honour'd Jame Hunte of Popham, Esq,
  
On the Death of that Worthy Gentleman Mr. John Cary, of Woodstock.
  
A Poem most humbly offer'd to the Memory of her late Sacred Majesty, Queen Mary.
  
An Historical Poem, most humbly offer'd to the Memory of his late Sacred Majesty, King William.
  
A Funeral Poem.
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Funeral Eclogues.
  
Urania, a Funeral Eclogue.
  
Alcander, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Mirana, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Damon, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Nicander and Thirsis; a Funeral Eclogue:
  
The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue.
  
The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Thealma, a Funeral Eclogue:
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Divine Poems AND PARAPHRASES.
  
A Contemplation touching Atheism.
  
The True FAST:
  
The HARLOT:
  
The ATHEIST:
  
The HAPPY MAN.
  
Hymn for Christmas-Day.
  
Hymn for Easter-Day.
  
Hymn for Whit-sunday.
  
On Good Friday.
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VOLUME the SECOND. [SATYRS].
  
PROLOGUE To the following SATYRS.
  
To the Right Honourable CHARLES,
  
LOVE given Over:
  
THE POETESS,
  
To Sr. Fleetwood Sheppard, &c.
  
A SATYR AGAINST WOOING:
  
THE STEP-MOTHER,
  
A Glance at Fanaticism;
  
Mother Clark's Ghost,
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THE MURMURERS, &c.
 1. 
[The First Part.]
 2. 
The Second Part.
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A SATYR AGAINST MAN.
 1. 
The First Part.
 2. 
The Second Part.
 3. 
The Third Part.
 4. 
The Fourth Part.
 5. 
The Fifth Part.
  
TO The Right Honourable CHARLES,
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THE PLAY-HOUSE
 1. 
The First Part.
 2. 
The Second Part.
 3. 
The Third Part.
  
THE Corruption of the TIMES BY MONEY.
  
JACK PAVY,
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THE SKETCH,
 1. 
The First Part.
 2. 
The Second Part.
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Pindarick Poems.
  
TO Fleetwood Sheppard Esq
  
To the Society of the Beaux Esprits.
  
To my Lord of Abingdon.
  
Sacred to the Memory of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second.
  
The Twelfth of June.
  
Mirtillo and Amynta:

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To Sr. Fleetwood Sheppard, &c.

While the vain Fop his vainer Mistress sues,
Growing more Slavish as he longer Wo's,
(For she but flies because the Sot pursues)
You, Sir, a safer, nobler Way have ran,
For an ill Age a general Good began,
And shewn the Ways of Liberty to Man.
Unpitied let the Husband mourn his Strife,
That Wo's, and Lyes, and Labours for a Wife.
Mean while to you our Praise we justly pay,
Whom Woman's utmost Art cou'd ne'er betray,
Or all her Charms seduce to quit your Native Sway.
Learning and Prudence rais'd you safe above
The Snares of Wedlock, and the Smiles of Love;
In their Embrace a nobler Prize you sought,
And to their Empire lasting Conquests brought.
'Twas strange to be the Foe of Love so Young.
But stranger to retain the Bent so long.
Nor Heat of Youth, nor yet your Elder Years
(For many a Man is fonder as he wears)
Cou'd ever plunge you in that Sea of Cares.
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Constant to Peace, you still avoided Strife,
The Rocks, the Shelves and Quick-sands of a Wife,
That Wak'ner of Despair, and Scourge of Life!
'Twas not because you never saw the Flame;
In Crowds of Beauties you were still the same,
And, looking back, despis'd the following Game:
Thus, flying, you the beauteous Victors beat,
And Parthian like, secur'd the Conquest by Retreat:
Disarm'd of all their Darts, the Fantoms fled,
By your persisting Sense their Pow'r struck dead,
And Wit and Friendship govern'd in their stead.
Friendship! Heav'ns holiest Tye and Balm of Life!
And Wit! that never cou'd consist with Strife.
How are we pleas'd at ev'ry Word you speak!
How do we glow to see the Lightning break!
Inevitable Mirth our Grief controuls,
Shines thro' the Sullen Gloom, and warms our Souls!
Sadness it self does in thy Presence wear
A Pleasing Look, and Poets lose their Care.
There's not a Soul can stir while thou dost stay!
To ev'ry Mind you Life and Light convey,
Just as where e'er the Sun arrives 'tis Day!
Why shou'd not Wit, a Blessing so sublime,
As it from Love, secure thee too from Time?
It will not be!—The Body falls of Course;
But thy Immortal Name's above his Force,
R. G.
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