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[Poems on Several Occasions by Nicholas Amhurst]

Amhurst, N. (1697-1742)

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THE MOSAICAL CREATION, Or the First six Days.

The Destruction of PHARAOH in the Red-Sea.

THE LEGEND: A POEM

Upon the Death of, Mr. ADDISON;

TARQUIN AND LUCRECE.

Catullus imitated Ep. 7.

Catullus imitated. Ep. 5.

Catullus to Himself.

On the Images of the Nine leaden Muses upon the new Printing-House in OXFORD.

Catullus imitated. Ep. 58.

On the Tenth of JUNE.

To a Lady who said she would never marry a Whig.

Catullus imitated. Ep. 84. CÆLIA and LAURA.

To a Friend in LONDON.

Mahomet's Kingdom.

Catullus imitated. Ep. 81.

Warning to young married Men.

Jupiter and Cloe.

Advicd to my self on being threatned to be expell'd

The Free-thinker converted.

To a Friend in LONDON, upon my returning to College.

An Epilogue for the Tragedy of King HENRY IV. of France, design'd to have been spoken by Charlotta.

To the Memory of Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart. late of Maidstone in Kent.

To Mrs. Centlivre at that time dangerously ill.

To Mrs. Centlivre, upon her desiring Me to read and correct a Poem.

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Epigram on Dr. CRASSUS.

To my Friend the Author of the Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh.

THE Test of LOVE:

THE BOTTLE-SCRUE.

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Catullus imitated. Ep. 81.

Before her Husband, Lesbia calls me Names,
And at the Lewdness of the Town exclaims;
This tickles the poor Cuckold to the Life,
And he thanks Heav'n for such a virtuous Wife.
Contented Fool!—indeed you reason wrong,
If she were virtuous, she would hold her Tongue;
Scandal and Noise her Virtue do not prove,
But are the Marks of unextinguish'd Love

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Still, in her Veins, the wanton Itch prevails,
And, in the madness of her Lust, she rails.