On the Soft and Gentle Motions of Eudora.
Divine _Thalia_ strike th'Harmonious Lute,
But with a Stroke so Gentle as may sute
The silent gliding of the Howers,
Or yet the calmer growth of Flowers;
Th'ascending or the falling Dew,
Which none can see, though all find true.
For thus alone,
Can be shewn,
How downie, how smooth,
_Eudora_ doth Move,
How Silken her Actions appear,
The Aire of her Face,
Of a gentler Grace
Then those that do stroke the Eare.
Her Address so sweet,
So Modestly Meet,
That 'tis not the Lowd though Tuneable String,
Can shewforth so soft, so Noyseless a Thing!
O This to express from thy Hand must fall,
Then Musicks self, something more Musical.
_FINIS._
ERRATA.
In Mr. _Drydens_ Ode, Stanzo 5. at the end of the first line read
[None.] p. 9. v. 6. for her r. its. p. 24. v. 1. for renown'd r.
renowned. p. 38. v. last but one, for renounced r. renowned. p. 57. v.
1, instead of the Interrogation-point, make a Comma. p. 97. v. 13. r.
burn'd with a nobler fier.
THE
TABLE.
Alexandreis. Page 1
_To the Queen._ 6
_A Pastoral Dialogue._ 11
_On Death._ 13
_First Epigram, Upon being contended with a Little._ 15
_The Second Epigram, On_ Billinda. ibid.
_The Third Epigram, On an Atheist._ 16
_The Fourth Epigram, On_ Galla. 17
_A Farewel to Worldly Joys._ 18
_The Complaint of a Lover._ 19
_Love, the Soul of Poetry._ 22
_To my Lady_ Berkley, _Afflicted upon her Son my
Lord_ Berkley_'s early Engaging in the Sea-Service_. 24
_St._ John _Baptist Painted by her Self in the Wilderness,
with Angels appearing to him, and with a Lamb by him_. 27
Herodias_'s Daughter presenting to her Mother St._ Johns _Head
in a Silver Charger, also Painted by her self._ ibid.
_On a Picture Painted by her self, representing two_ Nymphs
_of_ Diana_'s, one in a posture to Hunt, the other Batheing_. 28
_An Invective against Gold._ 30
_The Miseries of Man._ 32
_Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another._ 44
_On the Birth-Day of Queen_ Katherine. 47
_To my Lord_ Colrane, _in Answer to his Complemental
Verses sent me under the Name of_ Cleanor. 49
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