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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)

VOL. I.

JACK THE GIANT QUELLER, AN OPERA.

AIR XXVIII.

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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,

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THE SPARROW and the DOVE.

THE FEMALE SEDUCERS.

LOVE AND VANITY.

CONRADE:

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AIR XXVIII.

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Tune, “The bonny Christ Church Bells”

Jack.
Would you wear this Pearl so rare?
Then, Fair-one, list to me,
First learn the skill your tongue to still;
And leave the name and honest fame of others free.
Your tittle-tattle, prate and prattle,—rake and rattle, all
Due victims to this Pearl must fall.
Your joys in toys, of folly, fops, and noise,

That, noon and night, the toy-shop of your heart employs;
The side long glance, and kindling dance,
Minc'd mein, and conscious eye;
With foibles which, you know, in shame I spare to shew;
A price, I fear, too high.