The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Lansdowne, George Granville (1667-1735)

Spoken by the Author, being then not Twelve Years of Age, to her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, at Trinity-College in Cambridge.

To the KING. In the First Year of His Majesty's Reign.

To the KING.

To the Author, on his foregoing Verses to the KING. By Mr. Edmund Waller.

Answer. To Mr. Waller.

To the Immortal Memory of Mr. EDMUND WALLER,

To MYRA. Loving at first Sight.

To MYRA.

SONG. To MYRA.

An Imitation of the Second Chorus in the Second Act of Seneca's Thyestes.

A Loyal Exhortation. Written in the Year 1688.

Verses sent to the Author in his Retirement. Written by Mrs. Elizabeth Higgons.

Occasion'd by the foregoing Verses. Written in the Year 1690.

SONG.

Beauty and Law.

LADY HYDE.

Lady Hyde having the Small-Pox, soon after the Recovery of Mrs. Mohun

The Dutchess of ---, unseasonably surpriz'd in the Embraces of her Lord.

To FLAVIA.

To the same. Her Gardens having escap'd a Flood that had laid all the Country round under Water.

To my Friend Dr. Garth. In his Sickness.

To my dear Kinsman CHARLES Lord LANSDOWNE,

LADY HYDE

To Mrs. Granville of Wotton in Buckinghamshire; afterwards Lady Conway.

SONG to MIRA.

MIRA. At a Review of the Guards in Hyde-Park.

To MIRA.

THE PROGRESS of BEAUTY.

TO THE COUNTESS of NEWBOURG,

Epigrams and Characters, &c.

CLEORA.

CLOE.

Mrs. CLAVERING, singing.

SONG

The WILD BOAR's Defence.

For LIBERALITY.

CORINNA.

CLOE.

A RECEIPT for VAPOURS.

On an Ill-favour'd Lord.

CLOE.

On the same.

CORINNA.

CLOE perfuming herself.

BELINDA.

Im Promptu.

To my Friend. Mr. JOHN DRYDEN,

A Morning Hymn to the Dutchess of Hamilton.

DRINKING SONG to SLEEP.

Written under Mrs. Hare's Name, upon a Drinking Glass.

Under the Dutchess of Bolton's.

Under the Lady Harper's Name.

Under the Lady Mary Villiers' Name.

CUPID DISARM'D.

BACCHUS DISARM'D.

THYRSIS and DELIA.

A Latin Inscription on a Medal for Lewis XIV. of France.

URGANDA's PROPHECY.

Prologue to the British Enchanters.

Another Epilogue designed for the same.

Prologue to Mr. Bevil Higgons' excellent Tragedy, call'd, The Generous Conqueror

EPILOGUE to the Jew of Venice.

PROLOGUE to the She-Gallants; Or, Once a Lover and always a Lover.

ODE On the present Corruption of Mankind.

FORTUNE.

PELEUS and THETIS.

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SONG to MIRA.

[Why, cruel Creature, why so bent]

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Why, cruel Creature, why so bent
To vex a tender Heart?
To Gold and Title you relent,
Love throws in vain his Dart.

II

Let glittering Fools in Courts be great;
For Pay, let Armies move;
Beauty should have no other Bait
But gentle Vows, and Love.

III

If on those endless Charms you lay
The Value that's their Due,
Kings are themselves too poor to pay,
A thousand Worlds to few.

IV

But if a Passion without Vice,
Without Disguise or Art,
Ah Mira! if true Love's your Price,
Behold it in my Heart.

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