The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ::

The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams

... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits

Hanbury Williams, Charles (1708-1759)

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VOL. I.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE

AN ODE TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLE,

ARGYLE'S DECAMPMENT,

A GRUB UPON BUB

(Written in December 1741.)

GILES EARLE (OF MARLBOROUGH-STREET); AND GEO. BUBB DODDINGTON, Esqrs.

PETER AND MY LORD QUIDAM:

A Political Eclogue

ISABELLA;

AN ODE TO THE HONOURABLE HENRY FOX,

AN ODE, ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF “THE CONQUER'D DUCHESS:”

AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE STEPHEN POYNTZ, ESQ.

AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF MATZEL, A FAVOURITE BULL-FINCH:

A BALLAD: IN IMITATION OF MARTIAL, Lib. 6, Ep. 34.

AN ODE ON MISS HARRIET HANBURY,

A SONG: ON MISS HARRIET HANBURY,

ON THE DEATH OF LADY ABERGAVENNY:

ON LADY ABERGAVENNY:

SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS TO SIR HANS SLOANE,

(Written in February 1739-40.)

THE COUNTRY GIRL; AN ODE:

A NEW ODE

AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARL OF BATH

THE STATESMAN.

A NEW ODE.

AN ODE, FROM THE EARL OF BATH TO AMBITION.

THE HEROES:

SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS TO EDWARD HUSSEY, ESQ.

An Epigram.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EARL OF BATH AND HIS COUNTESS.

TO THE EARL OF BATH;

AN ODE TO THE HON. PHILIP YORKE:

THE CAPUCHIN:

AN ODE TO LORD LIMERICK

AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARL OF BATH:

TO THE EARL OF BATH,

AN ODE FROM THE EARL OF BATH.

A NEWER ODE THAN THE LAST.

[BUT Orford's self I've seen, whilst I have read]

BRITANNIA'S GHOST TO THE EARL OF BATH.

AN ODE FROM FAME TO THE EARL OF BATH.

THE PATRIOT PARROT:

AN EPITAPH ON THE POLITICAL MEMORY OF WILLIAM PULTNEY, EARL OF BATH;

A BALLAD: IN IMITATION OF “WILLIAM AND MARGARET,”

ON THE ARRIVAL OF GENERAL OGLETHORPE.

HOR. LIB. II. ODE XVI.—Otium Divos, &c. IMITATED:

WYNDHAM AND PULTNEY;

TO MR. GARNIER AND MR. PEARCE OF BATH.

HOR. LIB. I. ODE XXX.—O Venus! Regina, Cnida Paphosq. &c.

A LAMENTABLE CASE.

A BALLAD:

ON THE PRINCES GOING TO ST. JAMES'S

HORACE, ODE XI. LIB. II.

ORPHEUS AND HECATE,

LADY DOROTHY BOYLE ENAMOURED WITH LORD EUSTON.

II.

III.

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THE PATRIOT PARROT:

A Fable.

A ZEALOUS Patriot had a parrot taught,
To mimic sound, to prattle his own thought;
“Rogues all, rogues all,” was Poll's eternal tone,
“Rogues all, rogues all,” who e'er approach a throne.
How well the master judged, how well the bird,
Critics decide—the master is preferr'd;
Servile he cringes, fawns, adores the throne,
But honest Poll still keeps her honest tone.
“Rogues all, rogues all,” is her eternal song,
“Rogues all, rogues all,” who 're slaves the court among!

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“Curse on this noisy bird,” the patriot cries;
“Rogues all, rogues all,” still honest Poll replies.
“Tom, take the bird, wring off his neck, for hoarse,
“Hoarse is as raven's croak his voice, and worse.”
“Rogues all, rogues all,” still honest Poll replied—
Who more a patriot lived than Poll, or dy'd?

The Moral.

From Poll's heroic soul let Statesmen see,
With their first lesson should their last agree;
The bird disdain'd his servile master's wrath—
Was it the bird of Sandys, or of Bath?

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THE PATRIOT PARROT:

A Fable.

The Moral.