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The Third Volume of the Works of Mr. William Congreve

containing Poems upon Several Occasions

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

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EPISTLE TO THE Right Honourable CHARLES Lord HALIFAX, &c.

THE Mourning Muse OF ALEXIS.

TO THE KING, On the Taking of NAMURE.

THE Birth of the Muse.

ON Mrs. ARABELLA HUNT, SINGING.

Priam's Lamentation and Petition TO ACHILLES, For the Body of his Son HECTOR.

THE LAMENTATIONS OF Hecuba, Adromache, and Helen, Over the dead Body of HECTOR.

PARAPHRASE UPON HORACE. ODE XIX. LIB. I.

STANZA'S In Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode XIV.

In Imitation of HORACE. Ode IX. Lib. I.

THE RECONCILIATION.

SONG in DIALOGUE, For TWO WOMEN.

Occasioned on a LADY's, HAVING Writ Verses in Commendation of a Poem which was written in Praise of another Lady.

A HYMN TO HARMONY. In Honour of St. CECILIA's Day, MDCCI.

VERSES To the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin,

TO Mr. DRYDEN, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF PERSIUS.

The ELEVENTH Satire of Juvenal.

PROLOGUE TO QUEEN MARY,

PROLOGUE TO Pyrrhus King of Epirus.

EPILOGUE TO OROONOKO.

PROLOGUE to the Husband his own Cuckold.

PROLOGUE TO THE COURT; ON THE QUEEN's Birth-Day, 1704.

THE TEARS OF AMARYLLIS for AMYNTAS.

TO CYNTHIA, Weeping and not Speaking.

TO Sir Godfrey Kneller, Occasion'd By L---y ---s Picture.

OVID's Third Book OF THE ART of LOVE.

OF PLEASING; AN EPISTLE TO Sir RICHARD TEMPLE.

A PINDARIQUE ODE, Humbly Offer'd to the QUEEN,

To the Right Honourable the Earl of GODOLPHIN, Lord High-Treasurer of GREAT BRITAIN. PINDARIQUE ODE.

HOMER's HYMN TO VENUS

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SONG in DIALOGUE, For TWO WOMEN.

1.
I love, and am belov'd again,
Strephon no more shall sigh in vain;
I've try'd his Faith, and found him true,
And all my Coyness bid adieu.

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2.
I love, and am belov'd again,
Yet still my Thyrsis shall complain;
I'm sure he's mine, while I refuse him,
But when I yield, I fear to loose him.

1.
Men will grow faint with tedious Fasting.

2.
And both will tire with often Tasting,
When they find the Bliss not lasting.

1.
Love is compleat in kind Possessing.

2.
Ah no! ah no! that ends the Blessing.

Chorus of both.
Then let us beware how far we consent,
Too soon when we yield, too late we repent;
'Tis Ignorance makes Men admire:
And granting Desire,
We feed not the Fire,
But make it more quickly expire.