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The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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A LETTER FROM THE OTHER WORLD, TO A LADY, FROM HER FORMER HUSBAND.

IN A PAPER CALLED THE NONSENSE OF COMMON SENSE. Published January 24, 1738.

IRREGULAR VERSES TO TRUTH.

THE LADY'S RESOLVE.

TOWN ECLOGUES. Written in the Year 1715.

VERSES, Written in the Chiosk of the British Palace, at Pera, overlooking the city of Constantinople, Dec. 26, 1718 [1717].

EPILOGUE TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO.

TO A FRIEND ON HIS TRAVELS.

FRAGMENT TO * * * * * *

JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH

AN ANSWER TO A LOVE-LETTER, IN VERSE

CONTINUATION By Lady M. W. Montagu.

AN EPISTLE TO THE EARL OF BURLINGTON.

VERSES Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book Of Horace.

UNFINISHED SKETCHES of a Larger Poem.

THE COURT OF DULNESS. A Fragment.

AN EPISTLE FROM POPE TO LORD BOLINGBROKE.

LADY HERTFORD, to Lord William Hamilton.

ANSWERED, FOR LORD WILLIAM HAMILTON, by Lady M. W. Montagu.

EPISTLE FROM ARTHUR GREY, THE FOOTMAN, to Mrs. Murray, after his condemnation for attempting to commit violence.

THE FOURTH ODE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED.

THE FIFTH ODE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED.

THE LOVER: A BALLAD.

ON SEEING A PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.

AN ELEGY ON MRS. THOMPSON.

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. BOWES.

A HYMN TO THE MOON.

TRANSLATED BY HERSELF:

THE BRIDE IN THE COUNTRY.

The following is another version of the preceding poem, as it was set to music, and called MELINDA'S COMPLAINT.

SONG — RONDEAU.

THE NINTH ODE OF THE THIRD BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED.

A SUMMARY of Lord Lyttleton's advice to a Lady.

THE SAME, translated by Lady M. W. Montagu.

THE POLITICIANS.

BALLAD, ON A LATE OCCURRENCE.

VERSES, WRITTEN IN A GARDEN.

IMPROMPTU, TO A YOUNG LADY SINGING.

EPISTLE TO LORD HERVEY ON THE KING"S BIRTHDAY. FROM THE COUNTRY.

AN ANSWER TO A LADY, Who Advised Lady M. W. Montagu to Retire.

WRITTEN AT LOVERE, OCTOBER, 1736.

CONCLUSION OF A LETTER TO A FRIEND.

WRITTEN AT LOVERE, 1755.

LINES WRITTEN IN A BLANK PAGE OF MILTON'S PARADISE LOST.

ADDRESSED TO ____, 1736.

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AN ANSWER TO A LADY, Who Advised Lady M. W. Montagu to Retire.

You little know the heart that you advise:
I view this various scene with equal eyes;
In crowded courts I find myself alone,
And pay my worship to a nobler throne.

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Long since the value of this world I know;
Pitied the folly, and despis'd the show;
Well as I can, my tedious part I bear,
And wait dismissal without pain or fear.
Seldom I mark mankind's detested ways,
Not hearing censure or affecting praise;
And unconcern'd my future fate I trust
To that sole Being, merciful and just!