A NEW SIMILE, IN THE MANNER OF SWIFT. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. THE CLOWN'S REPLY. STANZAS ON WOMAN. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. SONG, INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SUNG IN THE COMEDY OF "SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER." STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC. EPITAPH ON DR. PARNELL. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON. AN ELEGY ON MRS. MARY BLAIZE. STANZAS. SONGS. A PROLOGUE BY THE POET LABERIUS, WHOM CÆSAR FORCED UPON THE STAGE. PROLOGUE TO "ZOBEIDE," A TRAGEDY. EPILOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. LEE LEWIS. EPILOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF "THE SISTERS." THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES. EPILOGUE TO THE "GOOD-NATURED MAN." EPILOGUE TO "SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER." AN EPILOGUE, INTENDED FOR MRS. BULKLEY. EPILOGUE TO "SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER:" INTENDED TO BE SPOKEN BY MRS. BULKLEY AND MISS CATLEY. PLAYS. THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY. DEDICATION. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH DEAR SIR, I am sensible that the friendship between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies of a dedication; and perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts, which you decline giving with your own. But as a part of this poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland, the whole can now, with propriety, be only inscribed to you. It will also throw a light upon many parts of it, when the reader understands that it is addressed to a man who, despising fame and fortune, has retired early to happiness and obscurity, with an income of forty pounds a-year. I now perceive, my dear brother, the wisdom of your humble choice. You have entered upon a sacred office, where the harvest is great, and the labourers are but few; while you have left the field of ambition, where the labourers are many, and the harvest not worth carrying away. But of all kinds of ambition—what from the refinement of the times, from different systems of criticism, and from the divisions of party—that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. Poetry makes a principal amusement among unpolished nations; but in a country verging to the extremes of refinement, painting and music come in for a share. As these offer the feeble mind a less laborious entertainment, they at first rival poetry, and at length supplant her: they engross all that favour once shown to her, and, though but younger sisters, seize upon the elder's birthright.