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Various pieces in verse and prose

By the late Nathaniel Cotton. Many of which were never before published. In two volumes

Cotton, Nathaniel (1705-1788)

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VARIOUS PIECES.

An Invocation of Happiness, after the Oriental Manner of Speech.

[Reader, if fond of wonder and surprise]

An Enigma, inscribed to Miss P.

To some Children listening to a Lark.

To a Child of five Years old.

On Lord Cobham's Garden.

An Allusion to Horace, Ode XVI. Book II.

An Epitaph upon Mr. Thomas Strong, who died on the 26th of December, 1736.

Epitaph upon Miss Gee, Who died October 25, 1736, Ætat. 28.

Some hasty Rhimes on Sleep.

A REBUS.

A Sunday Hymn, in Imitation of Dr. Watts.

An Ode on the Messiah.

An Ode on the New Year.

EPITAPH On John Duke of Bridgwater,

Addressed to a young Lady, whose favourite Bird was almost killed by a fall from her Finger.

The Night Piece.

To the Rev. James Hervey, on his Meditations.

LINES under a Sun-Dial in the Church-yard at Thornby.

To the Memory Of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Clark, Who died December the 26th, aged 42.

VISIONS IN VERSE, FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF YOUNGER MINDS.

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A REBUS.

[The name of the monarch that abandon'd his throne]

The name of the monarch that abandon'd his throne,
Is the name of the fair, I prefer to his crown.

JAMES.