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The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

  
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ACCOUNT OF THE COURT OF GEORGE THE FIRST AT HIS ACCESSION
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A LETTER FROM THE OTHER WORLD, TO A LADY, FROM HER FORMER HUSBAND.
  
IN A PAPER CALLED THE NONSENSE OF COMMON SENSE. Published January 24, 1738.
  
JULIA TO OVID.
  
IRREGULAR VERSES TO TRUTH.
  
SONG.
  
THE LADY'S RESOLVE.
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TOWN ECLOGUES. Written in the Year 1715.
  
MONDAY. ROXANA; OR, THE DRAWING-ROOM.
  
TUESDAY. — ST. JAMES'S COFFEE-HOUSE.
  
WEDNESDAY. — THE TETE-A-TETE. DANCINDA.
  
THURSDAY. — THE BASSETTE-TABLE. SMILINDA AND CARDELIA.
  
FRIDAY. — THE TOILETTE. LYDIA.
  
SATURDAY. — THE SMALL-POX. FLAVIA.
  
VERSES, Written in the Chiosk of the British Palace, at Pera, overlooking the city of Constantinople, Dec. 26, 1718 [1717].
  
EPILOGUE TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
  
EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO.
  
TO A FRIEND ON HIS TRAVELS.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
FRAGMENT TO * * * * * *
  
TO MR. —
  
JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
  
A CHARACTER
  
AN ANSWER TO A LOVE-LETTER, IN VERSE
  
CONTINUATION By Lady M. W. Montagu.
  
AN EPISTLE TO THE EARL OF BURLINGTON.
  
VERSES Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book Of Horace.
  
UNFINISHED SKETCHES of a Larger Poem.
  
THE COURT OF DULNESS. A Fragment.
  
AN EPISTLE FROM POPE TO LORD BOLINGBROKE.
  
LADY HERTFORD, to Lord William Hamilton.
  
ANSWERED, FOR LORD WILLIAM HAMILTON, by Lady M. W. Montagu.
  
EPISTLE FROM ARTHUR GREY, THE FOOTMAN, to Mrs. Murray, after his condemnation for attempting to commit violence.
  
THE FOURTH ODE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED.
  
THE FIFTH ODE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED.
  
THE LOVER: A BALLAD.
  
ON SEEING A PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.
  
AN ELEGY ON MRS. THOMPSON.
  
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. BOWES.
  
A MAN IN LOVE.
  
A BALLAD.
  
A HYMN TO THE MOON.
  
TRANSLATED BY HERSELF:
  
THE BRIDE IN THE COUNTRY.
  
The following is another version of the preceding poem, as it was set to music, and called MELINDA'S COMPLAINT.
  
SONG.
  
SONG — RONDEAU.
  
EPITHALAMIUM.
  
THE NINTH ODE OF THE THIRD BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED.
  
A SUMMARY of Lord Lyttleton's advice to a Lady.
  
SONG.
  
THE SAME, translated by Lady M. W. Montagu.
  
THE POLITICIANS.
  
BALLAD, ON A LATE OCCURRENCE.
  
SONG.
  
VERSES, WRITTEN IN A GARDEN.
  
SONG.
  
IMPROMPTU, TO A YOUNG LADY SINGING.
  
ADVICE.
  
ANSWER.
  
EPISTLE TO LORD HERVEY ON THE KING"S BIRTHDAY. FROM THE COUNTRY.
  
EPIGRAM, 1734.
  
AN ANSWER TO A LADY, Who Advised Lady M. W. Montagu to Retire.
  
WRITTEN AT LOVERE, OCTOBER, 1736.
  
CONCLUSION OF A LETTER TO A FRIEND.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
WRITTEN AT LOVERE, 1755.
  
LINES WRITTEN IN A BLANK PAGE OF MILTON'S PARADISE LOST.
  
ADDRESSED TO ____, 1736.

  
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ADVICE.

Cease, fond shepherd — cease desiring
What you never must enjoy;
She derides your vain aspiring,
She to all your sex is coy.
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Cunning Damon once pursu'd her,
Yet she never would incline;
Strephon too as vainly woo'd her,
Though his flocks are more than thine.
At Diana's shrine aloud,
By the zone around her waist,
Thrice she bow'd, and thrice she vow'd
Like the Goddess to be chaste.
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