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A Muse in Livery

A Collection of Poems [by Robert Dodsley]

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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EFFIGIES AUTHORIS: OR, THE Mind of the Frontispiece.

AN ENTERTAINMENT Designed for Her Majesty's Birth-Day.

AN EPISTLE TO STEPHEN DUCK.

To Mrs. A. H. occasioned by seeing her Seal a Letter with the Impression of a Cupid.

VERSES Occasioned by A Visit expected from the Right Honourable the Countess of Hartford, to the Honourable Lady Howe, at Compton, in Gloucestershire.

THE ENQUIRY. A FABLE.

An EPISTLE to my Friend J. B.

A SIMILE.

To the Honourable Lady Howe, upon the Death of her Husband Sir Richard Howe Bart. who died July 2. 1730. after they had lived together upwards of Fifty Years.

To my Friend Mr. WRIGHT, upon his commending something I had wrote.

Upon finding the two following Lines transcrib'd by a Lady

The GUARDIAN ANGEL.

To Sir Griffith Boynton Bar.

Wrote upon the Cellar-Door at my Lord H---d's.

An EPISTLE to my Friend Mr. H.

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To my Friend Mr. WRIGHT, upon his commending something I had wrote.

Say, was the real merit of my lays
The happy motive of your gen'rous praise?
Or did your partial friendship in each line,
Too much indulge the muse because 'twas mine?
Yes, yes, 'twas so; the first can ne'er be true;
'Tis hard to please a judge and critick too.