Mr. Cooke's Original Poems with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language |
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To Cornelius Nepos.
My Friend, where shall the Poet chuseOne worthy his facetious Muse?
To whom's the gilded Volume due,
Adorn'd with polish'd Leaves, and new?
To whom, my best of Friends, but you?
For you Cornelius, you my Friend,
Would oft' my trifling Song commend,
You who, of all our Land, would dare,
(A Task, O! Jove, he well could bear!)
To swell the learn'd and labour'd Page
With Worthys pass'd of ev'ry Age.
Accept this Verse, whate'er it be,
Such as it is, 'tis due to thee;
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To future Times the Pow'r to live.
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