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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

VOLUME the FIRST. [POEMS].

[dedication]

On the ensuing POEMS OF Mr. ROBERT GOULD,

[Songs.]

Love Verses.

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.

Occasional Verses To several Ladies, &c.

EPISTLES From the Country.

Divine Poems AND PARAPHRASES.

VOLUME the SECOND. [SATYRS].

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EPITAPH, On Mrs. Mary Alexander, in Broad-Somerford Church.

She left us Young; yet her short Span of Life
Shew'd a good Daughter, Mother, Friend, and Wife.
Her Parents found her an obedient Child,
Her Children tender, and her Husband mild,
So Mild! his Will she never did reprove;
One half Submission, t'other half was Love,
To all obliging, pitious of the Poor;
Sparing of Speech, but liberal of her Store.
Thus true Religion her whole Life did sway:
Ah! why so vertuous and so short her Stay!
Others may run a longer Race of Days,
But who will leave us such a Theme for Praise!