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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)

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VOL. I.
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JACK THE GIANT QUELLER, AN OPERA.
  
AIR I.
  
AIR II.
  
AIR III.
  
AIR IV.
  
AIR V.
  
AIR VI.
  
AIR VII.
  
AIR VIII.
  
AIR IX.
  
AIR X.
  
AIR XI.
  
AIR XII.
  
AIR XIII.
  
AIR XV.
  
AIR XV.
  
AIR XVI.
  
AIR XVII.
  
AIR XVIII.
  
AIR XIX.
  
AIR XX.
  
AIR XXI.
  
AIR XXII.
  
AIR XXIII.
  
AIR XXIV.
  
AIR XXV.
  
AIR XXVI.
  
AIR XXVII.
  
AIR XXVIII.
  
AIR XXIX.
  
AIR XXX.
  
XXXI.
  
AIR XXXII.
  
AIR XXXIII.
  
AIR XXXIV.
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RUTH: AN ORATORIO.
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PART I.
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SCENE I.
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PART III.
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SCENE I.
 II. 
SCENE II.
  
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,
  
THE QUESTION.
  
THE FOX-CHASE.
  
REDEMPTION:
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VOL. II.
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UNIVERSAL BEAUTY:
 I. 
BOOK I.
 II. 
BOOK II.
 III. 
BOOK III.
 IV. 
BOOK IV.
 V. 
BOOK V.
 VI. 
BOOK VI.
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JERUSALEM DELIVERED;
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BOOK I.
 II. 
BOOK II.
 III. 
BOOK III.
  
CONSTANTIA:
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VOL. IV.
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FABLES
  
THE TEMPLE of HYMEN.
  
THE SPARROW and the DOVE.
  
THE FEMALE SEDUCERS.
  
LOVE AND VANITY.
  
CONRADE:

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AIR I.

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Tune, “At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure.”

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The Laws they were made for the Little,
The Laws they were made for the Little,
In the hands of the Strong,
All the ties, that belong
To Justice and Honour, are brittle.
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II

The Laws they were made for the Little,
The Laws they were made for the Little,
Though Churchmen may preach,
And Philosophers teach,
The Great will not list to a tittle.

III

The Laws they were made for the Little,
The Laws they were made for the Little;
It is not by Right,
But by wrong-doing Might,
That Giants still scape a Committal.
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