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The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke

... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition
Brooke, Henry (1703?-1783)

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VOL. I.
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JACK THE GIANT QUELLER, AN OPERA.
  
AIR I.
  
AIR II.
  
AIR III.
  
AIR IV.
  
AIR V.
  
AIR VI.
  
AIR VII.
  
AIR VIII.
  
AIR IX.
  
AIR X.
  
AIR XI.
  
AIR XII.
  
AIR XIII.
  
AIR XV.
  
AIR XV.
  
AIR XVI.
  
AIR XVII.
  
AIR XVIII.
  
AIR XIX.
  
AIR XX.
  
AIR XXI.
  
AIR XXII.
  
AIR XXIII.
  
AIR XXIV.
  
AIR XXV.
  
AIR XXVI.
  
AIR XXVII.
  
AIR XXVIII.
  
AIR XXIX.
  
AIR XXX.
  
XXXI.
  
AIR XXXII.
  
AIR XXXIII.
  
AIR XXXIV.
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RUTH: AN ORATORIO.
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PART I.
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SCENE I.
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PART III.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE EARL OF ESSEX,
  
PROLOGUE TO THE EARL OF WESTMORLAND,
  
ANOTHER PROLOGUE TO THE EARL OF WESTMORLAND.
  
EPILOGUE TO THE PLAY OF WHAT WE MUST ALL COME TO.
  
TO THE MEMORY OF Lieutenant Colonel HENRY CLEMENTS.
  
A CHARACTER.
  
TO Mr. B---
  
THE PATRIOTISM OF IRELAND,
  
THE QUESTION.
  
THE FOX-CHASE.
  
REDEMPTION:
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VOL. II.
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UNIVERSAL BEAUTY:
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BOOK I.
 II. 
BOOK II.
 III. 
BOOK III.
 IV. 
BOOK IV.
 V. 
BOOK V.
 VI. 
BOOK VI.
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JERUSALEM DELIVERED;
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
  
CONSTANTIA:
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VOL. IV.
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FABLES
  
THE TEMPLE of HYMEN.
  
THE SPARROW and the DOVE.
  
THE FEMALE SEDUCERS.
  
LOVE AND VANITY.
  
CONRADE:

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AIR VIII.

[_]

Tune, “Dremondoo.”

Grace.
O now he has left me, what care shall employ,
What object afford me the shadow of joy?
To a heart so o'erladen, all Sorrows are meet;
Misfortune is welcome, and mourning is sweet!

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Away, ye companions of daily delight,
And pastimes that gently could steal on the night
Away, ye fond sports of the wake, and the fair!
Your pleasures are vanish'd—no brother is there!

III

Of the Ball, and the Hurling, the Dance, and the Race,
His skill was the victor, his person the grace:
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The Maidens throng'd round him, delighted to see,
And wish'd they had all been his sisters, like me.

IV

Thus, every dear scene of my former delight,
To my mind will recal him, but not to my sight;
The trees will all droop, and the meadows look lone;
And all say—poor maid! thy Companion is gone!
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