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The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Charles Sedley

Collected and Edited from the Old Editions: With a preface on the text, explanatory and textual notes, an appendix containing works of doubtful authenticity, and a bibliography: By V. de Sola Pinto
Sedley, Charles (1639?-1701)

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POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS ASCRIBED TO SEDLEY ON DOUBTFUL AUTHORITY
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XCIV DISTICH
 XCV. 
XCV
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From Stephens's Miscellany Poems, 1685
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From Poetical Recreations, 1688
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From Buckingham's Miscellaneous Works, 1704
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From the Diverting Post, 1704
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From Poems on State Affairs, 1705
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From Briscoe's Edition of 1707
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From Briscoe's Edition of 1722
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THE PASTORALS OF VIRGIL
 CXIV. 
CXIV THE FIRST PASTORAL [OF VIRGIL]
 CXV. 
CXV THE SECOND PASTORAL [OF VIRGIL]
 CXVI. 
CXVI THE THIRD PASTORAL
 CXVII. 
CXVII THE FOURTH PASTORAL
 CXVIII. 
CXVIII THE FIFTH PASTORAL
 CXIX. 
CXIX THE SIXTH PASTORAL
 CXX. 
CXX THE SEVENTH PASTORAL
 CXXI. 
CXXI THE EIGHTH PASTORAL
 CXXII. 
CXXII THE NINTH PASTORAL
 CXXIII. 
CXXIII THE TENTH PASTORAL
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CXXIV A PINDARIQUE ODE
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CXXV THE FALL
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CXXVI TO PHILLIS: WHO SLIGHTED HIM
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CXXVII SOPHRONIA'S ANSWER TO A COXCOMB
 CXXVIII. 
CXXVIII TO CLARISSA
 CXXIX. 
CXXIX A Lady, asking the Author's Opinion of two Gentlemen, her Lovers, occasioned the following Lines
 CXXX. 
CXXX SONG
 CXXXI. 
CXXXI SONG
 CXXXII. 
CXXXII SONG
 CXXXIII. 
CXXXIII SONG
 CXXXIV. 
CXXXIV THE MINOUET
 CXXXV. 
CXXXV THE TOPER
 CXXXVI. 
CXXXVI VENUS AND ADONIS: OR THE AMOUR OF VENUS

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CXXVIII
TO CLARISSA

Upon dirtying her Lodgings

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Dust from my earthy Surface fell,
And soil'd the fair Clarissa's Cell;
Clarissa's Eyes have Pow'r Divine,
And with uncommon Lustre shine;
I'm form'd of sordid Earth, which must,
When shin'd upon, be turn'd to Dust;
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This Phœbus meaner Force can do,
Who is not half so bright as You;
Be not severe then in your Doom,
Since from your Self my Fault did come;
'Twas Wonder, when so near the Ray,
I did not moulder quite away;
She smiles, forgives; I feel the Pain,
Be angry, Charming Nymph, again;
Better to dye, than thus endure
What, You, ah Cruel! will not cure.
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