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Matthew Prior. Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works

in Prose and Verse. The Text Edited by A. R. Waller
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

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DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD AND OTHER WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE
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A SUPPLEMENT TO Mr. Prior's POEMS. Consisting Of such Pieces as are Omitted in the late Collection of his Works, and Others, now first Published, from his Original Manuscripts, in the Custody of his Friends.
  
To the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of DEVONSHIRE, ON A Piece of Wissin's; Whereon were all her Grandsons Painted.
  
The Female PHAETON.
  
The Judgment of VENUS.
  
SONG To his Mistress.
  
AN ODE,
  
AN EPISTLE TO Sir Fleetwood Sheppard.
  
A SATIRE ON THE Modern Translators.
  
A Satire upon the Poets, in Imitation of the Seventh Satire of Juvenal.
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[POEMS FROM THE New Collection, 1725]
  
Epitaph Extempore.
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THE Turtle and the Sparrow.
  
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APPLICATION OF THE TURTLE and SPARROW.
  
DOWN-HALL;
  
VERSES Spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish Holles Harley, In the LIBRARY of St. John's College, Cambridge
  
PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN.
  
THE CONVERSATION,
  
COLIN's MISTAKES.
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[MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ETC., FROM THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT]
  
Considerations on part of the 88th Psalm.
  
ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR, 1692.
  
TO A CHILD of QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD, The AUTHOR Forty.
  
TWO RIDDLES.
  
A FABLE.
  
A SONG.
  
CONSUMMATION.
  
THE FORTUNE-TELLER.
  
AN ENIGMA.
  
CUPID Turned STROLLER.
  
SNUFF.
  
DAPHNE and APOLLO.
  
PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY Lord BUCKHURST, AT WESTMINSTER-SCHOOL,
  
[THE SECRETARY.]
  
THE MICE
  
THE VICEROY.
  
UPON THIS PASSAGE IN SCALIGERIANA.
  
Nell and John.
  
Bibo.
  
Gabriel and his Wives.
  
Silvia.
  
Richard and Nelly.
  
CUPID IN AMBUSH.
  
Nannette.
  
The Priest and the Shepherd.
  
ON A FART, LET IN THE HOUSE of COMMONS.
  
On Hall's Death.
  
Prometheus.
  
THE WANDERING PILGRIM.
  
THE ADVICE OF VENUS.
  
CUPID TURNED PLOWMAN.
  
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
  
TO FORTUNE.
  
CHAST FLORIMEL.
  
PARTIAL FAME.
  
A SONG.
  
NON PAREIL.
  
UPON HONOUR.
  
THE OLD GENTRY.
  
THE INCURABLE.
  
THE Insatiable PRIEST.
  
DOCTORS Differ.
  
PONTIUS AND PONTIA.
  
Cautious Alice.
  
TO A POET of Quality, PRAISING THE Lady HINCHINBROKE.
  
The PRATER.
  
TRUTH TOLD AT LAST.
  
AN ENIGMA.
  
TWO BEGGARS Disputing their Right to an Oyster they had Found; a Lawyer thus decides the Cause.
  
A FRENCH SONG.
  
HUMAN LIFE.
  
A CASE STATED.
  
FOR My own Monument.
  
TO My Lord HARLEY.
  
A LETTER TO The Honourable LADY Miss Margaret-Cavendish-Holles-Harley.
  
TRUTH AND FALSHOOD.
  
Nelly's Picture.
  
PROLOGUE FOR DELIA's PLAY.
  
AMARYLLIS.
  
CUPID's Promise.
  
Lamentation for DORINDA.
  
On Absence.
  
TO LEONORA.
  
ON A PRETTY MADWOMAN.
  
The Torment of ABSENCE.
  
THE NEW-YEAR'S GIFT TO PHYLLIS.
  
Coy Jenny.
  
TO CELIA.
  
Upon a FRIEND, WHO HAD A Pain in his Left-Side.
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THE EXAMINER. 7 SEPTEMBER 1710
  
To the Earl of Godolphin.
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[MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF EVANS, INCLUDING TWENTY-FOUR SONGS.]
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II. PARTING WITH FLAVIA.
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III.
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IV. TO PHILLIS.
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V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII. A TWO PART SONG.
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IX.
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X.
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XI.
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XII.
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XIII.
 XIV. 
XIV.
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XV.
 XVI. 
XVI. LES ESTREINES.
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XVII.
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XVIII.
 XIX. 
XIX. ADVICE TO A LADY.
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XX.
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XXI.
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XXII.
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XXIII.
 XXIV. 
XXIV.
  
TO THE REV. DR. FRANCIS TURNER, BISHOP OF ELY WHO HAD ADVISED A TRANSLATION OF PRUDENTIUS.
  
A PASTORAL.
  
THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE.
  
EPIGRAM, EXTEMPORE.
  
EPIGRAM ON BISHOP ATTERBURY.
  
ON BISHOP ATTE[R]BURY'S BURYING THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, MDCCXX.
  
LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE PRINT OF TOM BRITTON, the Small-coal-man, PAINTED BY Mr. WOOLASTON.
  
WRITTEN IN LADY HOWE'S OVID'S EPISTLES.
  
AN EPISTLE, MDCCXVI.
  
ANOTHER EPISTLE.
  
TRUE'S EPITAPH.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
UPON Playing at OMBRE, WITH TWO LADIES.
  
ON MY BIRTH-DAY.
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POEMS FROM THE LONGLEAT MSS.
  
To Madam K. P.
  
To a Lady Sleeping.
  
Charity never faileth.
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There be Those that leave Their Names behind them.
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I.
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II.
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III.
  
Many Daughters have done well, But Thou Excellest them all.
  
On the Coronation.
  
Not Writing to K. P.
  
Arria and Petus out of Martial.
  
To the Countess of Dorset walking in a Garden.
  
To the E. of D. upon His Marriage.
  
Journey to Copt-Hall.
  
On Mr Fleetwood Shephards Killing the French K***
  
Advice to the Painter, Upon the defeat of the Rebels in the West, and the Execution of the late D. of Monmouth.
  
To the Bishop of Rochester Upon His Account of the Whiggish Conspir[a]cy by His late Majesty's order.
  
God is Love.
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To the E. of Dorset on the Birth of His Son.
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I.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
  
A Hymn to the Spring.
  
A Session of the Poets
  
To a Friend on his Marriage.
  
Letter to J****
  
To Dr F********* in a Letter to Beverley disswading him from drinking Waters.
  
[Inspired Wit.]
  
Epistle to Lord ---.
  
To My Lady Exeter, on New Years day.
  
[Answer to an] Orange.
  
Song
  
Song
  
[Great Nassau rise from Beauty]
  
Cælia.
  
The same Varied.
  
A Hymn to Venus, upon a Marriage.
  
A Fable.
  
A new Answer to an Argument against a Standing-Army.
  
[A Prophecy.]
  
Ballad.
  
[A Ballad of Vigour.]
  
Seneca, Troas. Act 2d.
  
Translated from the Original French.
  
[Reality and Image.]
  
Verses Intended for Lock and Montaigne.
  
Fragments Written At Down-Hall.
  
Fragments for Alma.
  
The World was 200 Year in the Dark following Aristotle.
  
Fragments.
  
To Florimel.
  
Written under a Picture painted by Mr Howard.
  
True Statesmen.
  
Simile.
  
The Courtier.
  
Fragments.
  
Beauty.
  
Narcissus.
  
On the Marchioness of Caermarthen.
  
Virgils Georgic 4 Verse 511 Qualis ------ implet
  
Answer to the Female Phaeton.
  
In a Window in Lord Villiers house.
  
To a Painter (fragments).
  
A Prologue intended to the Play of Chit Chat, but never finished.
  
Prelude to a Tale from Boccace in blank Verse.
  
PREDESTINATION.
  
[Fragment from Britanicus.]
  
To Cloe.
  
Epigram.
  
Translation of an Epitaph upon Gilbert Glanville Bishop of Rochester as written in Rochester Cathedral.
  
From Ronsard's Franciade Book the IVth Folio 465.
  
[Fragments in Prose and Verse.]
  
Song.
  
[Jinny the Just.]
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FRAGMENTS FROM PRIOR'S LETTERS, ETC.
  
FROM A LETTER TO THE EARL OF DORSET.
  
ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN MARY.
  
WRITTEN IN THE LIBRARY, [Wimpole] Dec. 2, 1720. M.P.
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POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO PRIOR
  
AN ANSWER TO THE Curious MAID. A TALE.
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THE LYON AND THE FOX.
  
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THE MORAL.
  
An EPISTLE from the Elector of BAVARIA to the FRENCH King, after the Battle of Ramillies.
  
An Apology to a Lady, who told me, I cou'd not love her heartily, because I had lov'd others.
  
Against Modesty in Love.
  
On a young Lady's going to Town in the Spring.
  
When the Cat's away, The Mice may play.
  
A FABLE OF THE WIDOW AND HER CAT.
  
A Paraphrase on the French.

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On the Coronation.

I.

No 'tis in vain; what limits shal controll
The rovings of my active Soul?
That Soul which Scorns to be to place confin'd,
And leaves its dull Companion earth behind.
Whilst fancy with unbounded flight
Enjoys that object of delight
Which Envious distance wou'd conceal from sight.
Giving Poets to partake
(Like those Deities they make)
Of infinite Ubiquity.
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II.

Thus methinks I see the barge
Pleas'd with the sacred weight of its Majestic charge
Old Argo with a weight less glorious fraught
The treasure from impov'rish'd Colchos brought
And Hellespont now vanquish'd must confess
His burthen meaner and his triumph less
Since richer Thames does James and Mary bear
He great as Jove She as Europa fair.
They come! Joy doubles strength to every Oar
Resounding Ecchoes fill the crowded Shoar
The waves with an unusual pride
Pay homage to the Lord
Of our Asserted Main
And calmly as they glide
Auspitiously afford
An Omen of his Reign.

III.

See glorious as the Eastern Sun
Our Monarch from the Waters rise
Whilst Crowds like Zealous Persians run
To own the blessing of their Sacrifice
He comes, religious Shouts proclaim him near
James and Hosannah bless each ear,
Delighted Heav'n confirms the mighty Joys
And in glad sounds reflects the Image of the Voice.

IV.

Triumphant Cæsar in less glory rode
When heighten'd from a Victor to a God
When captiv'd Monarchs trembl'd by his side
And by their Shame encreas'd his Pride
No private Sorrows here allay
The common transports of the happy Day
But in each exalted breast
Of happyness and James possess'd
Is evidently shown
His Peoples blessings greater then his own
And he that gives the Triumph triumphs least.
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V.

Now fancy to the Altar bring
Second to what we there adore, the King.
By the anointing Prelate mett
And rising where the mighty Brother sett,
But Oh! forbid the Omen heavn,
Protect the blessing You have giv'n,
Late he ascends, long may he fill the Throne
And for the Nations bliss defer his own
Whilst Marys charms unbend the care
Of that rich load his sacred temples wear
(Herself the brightest Jewel there).
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