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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

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VOLUME the FIRST. [POEMS].
  
[dedication]
  
On the ensuing POEMS OF Mr. ROBERT GOULD,
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[Songs.]
 I. 
SONG I. Fatal Constancy.
 II. 
SONG II. The Mistress.
 III. 
SONG III. The March Chick.
 IV. 
SONG IV. A Pastoral Dialogue.
 V. 
SONG V. Wit and Beauty.
 VI. 
SONG VI. The Complaint.
 VII. 
SONG VII. The Answer.
 VIII. 
SONG VIII. Vertue the greater Charm.
 IX. 
SONG IX. The unwilling Inconstant.
 X. 
SONG X. Falshood excus'd.
 XI. 
SONG XI. The Wanderer fix'd
 XII. 
SONG XII. No Life if no Love.
 XIII. 
SONG XIII. Pity if you'd be pity'd.
 XIV. 
SONG XIV. The reasonable Request.
 XV. 
SONG XV. The Hopeless Comfort.
 XVI. 
SONG XVI. The Fruitless Caution.
 XVII. 
SONG XVII. The Invocation.
 XVIII. 
SONG XVIII. The Enfranchisement.
 XIX. 
SONG XIX. Help at Hand.
 XX. 
SONG XX. The Dream.
 XXI. 
SONG XXI. The Enquiry.
 XXII. 
SONG XXII. The Boon.
 XXII. 
SONG XXII. Nothing wanting to Love.
 XXIV. 
SONG XXIV. The Enquiry resolv'd.
 XXV. 
SONG XXV. The Caution.
 XXVI. 
SONG XXVI. The Lover's Fortune.
 XXVII. 
SONG XXVII. The Tyranny of Love.
 XXVIII. 
SONG XXVIII. To Mirtillo.
 XXIX. 
SONG XXIX. Silvia.
 XXX. 
SONG XXX. Women's Vows.
 XXXI. 
SONG XXXI. The Farewel.
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Love Verses.
  
The Captive.
  
To Cælia, desiring his Absence.
  
The Request.
  
Love can't be hid.
  
Despair.
  
The vain Pursuit.
  
The Hopeless Lover.
  
The first Sight of Silvia.
  
Silvia Luke-warm.
  
Silvia kind.
  
Silvia in the Country.
  
A Letter from Silvia.
  
Silvia yet in the Country.
  
Silvia Return'd.
  
To Silvia, On deferring our Nuptials.
  
Silvia's Indifference.
  
Silvia Perjur'd.
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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.
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Occasional Verses To several Ladies, &c.
  
Advice to a fine young Lady.
  
To a Gentlewoman who had written many fine Things, and not seen Mrs. Phillips's Poems.
  
To Madam B. occasion'd by a Copy of Verses of my Lady Ann Baynton's.
  
To a very Vertuous Gentlewoman, on her being traduc'd, &c.
  
To Madam L.
  
To the Happy Mother.
  
To my Lady Long:
  
To my Lady Ann Baynton on the 28th of April, her Birth-Day.
  
To my Lady Abingdon.
  
To my Lady Peterborow on her saying she did not like Panegyrick.
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EPISTLES From the Country.
  
To my Lord of Abingdon at his Country House.
  
To Mr. Knight from the Country.
  
To Mr. R. Trowe from the Country.
  
To the Reverend Mr. Francis Henery Cary, from the Country.
  
To Mr. Lowin, from the Country.
  
The DREAM.
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HYMENEALS:
  
To my Lord Eland, on his Marriage and Return, &c.
  
To Sir Edward Nevil Baronet, On his Marriage.
  
To an unknown Relation; Hearing he was happily Married.
  
Of Adorissa's Second Marriage with Mr. Grevil.
  
To Dr. Harding and his Lady; Some time after their Marriage.
  
On my Lord of Dorset's Marriage with the Lady Mary Compton.
  
On my Lord of Abingdon's Marriage with the Lady Wenman.
  
To his Grace the Duke of Beaufort on his Marriage with the Lady Mary Sackville.
  
On the Marriage of Sir James Long Baronet, with the Honourable Madam Henrietta Greville.
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LUCINIALS:
  
To the much Honour'd James Hunte of Popham, Esq; on the Birth of his Son and Heir.
  
To Henry Bayntun Esq; on the Birth of his Son and Heir.
  
To Mr. Mansell and his Lady, on the Birth of their Son and Heir.
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Funeral Elegies.
  
To the Memory of Mr. John Oldham.
  
To the Memory of Edmund Waller, Esq.
  
On the Death of Mr. Dryden.
  
To Mr. Trowe, on the Death of Madam Goddard.
  
To Mr. Lawrence, on the Death of his Excellent Wife.
  
To the Memory of Mrs. Mary Peachley.
  
On the Death of Madam Pool's Son and Heir; Born Eight Months after his Fathers Decease.
  
To the Memory of that Worthy Gentleman Colonel Edward Cooke.
  
To the Honourable Colonel Henry Chiver, on the Death of Lionel Duckett, Esq
  
On the Death of the Famous Musick-Master Mr. Henry Purcell.
  
To my Lady Long, on the Death of Sir Giles Long Baronet, her Grandson.
  
To Sir James Long, Baronet.
  
To the Memory of Mr. James Margetts who died of the Small Pox in his Voyage to Pensilvania.
  
On the untimely Death of Mr. John Cary, Kill'd in a Duel.
  
On the Death of the much Honour'd Jame Hunte of Popham, Esq,
  
On the Death of that Worthy Gentleman Mr. John Cary, of Woodstock.
  
A Poem most humbly offer'd to the Memory of her late Sacred Majesty, Queen Mary.
  
An Historical Poem, most humbly offer'd to the Memory of his late Sacred Majesty, King William.
  
A Funeral Poem.
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Funeral Eclogues.
  
Urania, a Funeral Eclogue.
  
Alcander, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Mirana, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Damon, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Nicander and Thirsis; a Funeral Eclogue:
  
The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue.
  
The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue:
  
Thealma, a Funeral Eclogue:
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Divine Poems AND PARAPHRASES.
  
A Contemplation touching Atheism.
  
The True FAST:
  
The HARLOT:
  
The ATHEIST:
  
The HAPPY MAN.
  
Hymn for Christmas-Day.
  
Hymn for Easter-Day.
  
Hymn for Whit-sunday.
  
On Good Friday.
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VOLUME the SECOND. [SATYRS].
  
PROLOGUE To the following SATYRS.
  
To the Right Honourable CHARLES,
  
LOVE given Over:
  
THE POETESS,
  
To Sr. Fleetwood Sheppard, &c.
  
A SATYR AGAINST WOOING:
  
THE STEP-MOTHER,
  
A Glance at Fanaticism;
  
Mother Clark's Ghost,
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THE MURMURERS, &c.
 1. 
[The First Part.]
 2. 
The Second Part.
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A SATYR AGAINST MAN.
 1. 
The First Part.
 2. 
The Second Part.
 3. 
The Third Part.
 4. 
The Fourth Part.
 5. 
The Fifth Part.
  
TO The Right Honourable CHARLES,
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THE PLAY-HOUSE
 1. 
The First Part.
 2. 
The Second Part.
 3. 
The Third Part.
  
THE Corruption of the TIMES BY MONEY.
  
JACK PAVY,
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THE SKETCH,
 1. 
The First Part.
 2. 
The Second Part.
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Pindarick Poems.
  
TO Fleetwood Sheppard Esq
  
To the Society of the Beaux Esprits.
  
To my Lord of Abingdon.
  
Sacred to the Memory of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second.
  
The Twelfth of June.
  
Mirtillo and Amynta:

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Silvia Perjur'd.

She has (ye Gods) forgot the Vows she made,
And, conscious flies the Wretch she has betray'd.
But if she's yet not past the Pow'r of Love,
If Constancy has Charms, or Verse can move,
I'll bring thy Vertues back forgetful Fair,
And prove that plighted Oaths are something more than Air.
In such sad Strains I'll my Distress impart,
So lively will I paint my bleeding Heart,
E'en thou thy self shalt be amaz'd to see
So swift a Change from Joy to Misery!
I had no Respite between best and worst,
Fed but to starve, and happy to be curst;
Precipitated by a sudden Blow,
From the Extreme of Bliss to that of Woe!
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Yet (Cruel Maid!) my Crime let Envy tell,
I was too humble, and I lov'd too well.
Did Angels know my Truth as well as you,
Ev'n they wou'd wonder Man shou'd be so true:
But wonder more to see thee faithless prove
When there is scarce a purer Flame above:
What can there There from Each to Each be paid
But endless Love, and Fervor undecay'd?
You know, and I shall ne'er forget the Time
(Lock'd in my Arms, nor Kisses then a Crime)
When on your Bosom I expiring lay
(How short is Pleasure! and how soon 'twas Day!)
While with our Breath our very Minds we mixt
(The Marriage promis'd, and the Day prefixt)
'Twas then by the Immortal Pow'rs you swore,
Nay by your Mut'ual Love, and that was more,
That 'twas to me your Life, your Soul you'd give,
And for me only that you wish'd to Live!
Did I not there affirm the same to you!
You heard, you saw (with Eyes erected too)
How Zealously I look'd on Heav'n above,
Wish'd it unkind to me if I prov'd false to Love.
Have we not since, too, often sworn the same?
With fresh Endearments fed th'Eternal Flame?
Eternal! no, 'twas Momentary, slight,
A short-liv'd Met'eor, a delusive Light,
A Glare, an Ignis Fatuus of the Night;
By which y'ave led me over Bush and Thorn,
Drill'd on by Hope, and driven back by Scorn.
Sure thou dost think thou at Loves Auction art,
And dost by Inch of Candle parcel out thy Heart:
Thy Flame so far from lasting, I ev'n doubt
Thou dost but light it up to put it out,
Or singe as purblind Moths that fly about.
Destructive Sex! for as thou usest Me,
So each Man's serv'd by some Perfidious She.
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Cruel, or false y'are all; and he is blest,
He only, that excludes you from his Breast,
Nor lets your Terrier LOVE, dislodge his Rest.
Love! that where e'er it comes makes Concord cease,
The Dearth of Pleasure, and the Bane of Peace:
The Toil with which w'are hatter'd out by Day,
At Night, the Hag that rides our Sleep away.
Debate, Deceit, Distrust, have hence their Birth,
And all beside that makes a Hell on Earth.
If Courtship opens such a Scene to Strife,
What Curses must there follow with a Wife?
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