TRANSLATION FROM SCARRÒN 126 STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC 127 EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON 128 TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE 128 EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL 129 DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR’S BED-CHAMBER 130 SONG, FROM THE COMEDY OF “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER” 131 ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER. 133 SONG, INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SUNG IN “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER” 135 FROM THE LATIN OF VIDA 135 AN ELEGY ON MRS. MARY BLAIZE 136 ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO PASS THE CHRISTMAS AT BARTON 138 ON SEEING A LADY PERFORM A CERTAIN CHARACTER 141 BIRDS 142 PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS 143 PROLOGUE TO “ZOBEIDE” 144 EPILOGUE TO “THE SISTER” 146 EPILOGUE INTENDED FOR “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER” 148 ANOTHER INTENDED EPILOGUE 153 EPILOGUE TO “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER” 155 EPILOGUE TO “THE GOOD-NATURED MAN” 157 ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. ---- 159 EPILOGUE WRITTEN FOR MR. CHARLES LEE LEWES 163 [Illustration: ILLUSTRATIONS] ENGRAVED BY EDMUND EVANS, FROM DRAWINGS BY BIRKET FOSTER. MILL AT LISSOY (_Frontispiece_). PAGE GOLDSMITH’S TOMB IN THE TEMPLE CHURCHYARD xvii THE TRAVELLER. _Or where Campania’s plain forsaken lies_ 5 _Bless’d that abode, where want and pain repair_ 6 _Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend_ 7 _Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale_ 8 _The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone_ 9 _Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave_ 10 _While oft some temple’s mouldering tops between_ 12 _In florid beauty groves and fields appear_ 13 _A mistress or a saint in every grove_ 14 _Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread_ 16 _With patient angle trolls the finny deep_ 17 _How often have I led thy sportive choir_ 18 _The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail_ 21