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Poems upon Various Occasions

Written for the Entertainment of the author, And Printed for the Amusement Of a few friends, Prejudic'd in his Favour [by William Shenstone]

Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

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The Speeches of SLOTH and VIRTUE: Upon the Plan of Xenophon's Judgment of Hercules.

—Alboque simillima cygno.

The Gossipping.

STANZA's To the Memory of W. G. Parish-Clerk,

Anacreontick.

To Mr. POPE, ON His Dunciad.

Eve's Speech in Milton, upon her Expulsion out of Paradise.

Written under a Lady's Name on a Window.

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Prefatory Dedication, TO Mrs ------