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'T is the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, 'You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.' The Sluggard.

And he that does one fault at first,
And lies to hide it, makes it two.*

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

Against Lying.

A Funeral Thought.

Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

The mind's the standard of the man.

Book ii. Hymn 19.

Hora Lyrice. Book ii. False Greatness.

MATTHEW GREEN. 1696-1737.

FLING but a stone, the giant dies.

The Spleen. Line

SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE. 1667-1772.

93.

THE

HE real Simon Pure.

A Bold Stroke for a Wife.

Act v. Sc. 1.

* Cf. Herbert. The Church Porch.

AARON HILL. 1685-1750.

IRST, then, a woman will, or won't,-depend on 't; If she will do 't, she will; and there's an end on 't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront and jealousy injustice.*

Tender handed stroke a nettle,

Epilogue to Zara.

And it stings you for your pains;

Grasp it like a man of mettle,

And it soft as silk remains.

Verses written on a Window in Scotland.

'T is the same with common natures:
Use 'em kindly, they rebel;

But be rough as nutmeg-graters,

And the rogues obey you well.

Ibid.

SIR SAMUEL TUKE.

1673.

H

E is a fool who thinks by force or skill

To turn the current of a woman's will.
Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3.

* The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount

in the Dane John Field, Canterbury :

Where is the man who has the power and skill

To stem the torrent of a woman's will?

For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;

And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.

JAMES THOMSON. 1700-1748.

THE SEASONS.

COME, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.

Base envy withers at another's joy,

Spring. Line 1.

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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.

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An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

Line 1158.

The meek-eyed Morn appears, mother of dews.

Summer. Line 47.

But yonder comes the powerful King of Day
Rejoicing in the east.

Line 81.

Ships dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds.

Line 946.

Sighed and looked unutterable things.

Line 1188.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.

Line 1285.

So stands the statue that enchants the world,

So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

Line 1346.

Loveliness

Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorned, adorned the most.

Autumn. Line 204.

For still the world prevailed, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.

See Winter comes, to rule the varied year.

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.

Line 233.

Winter. Line 1.
Line 393.

The kiss, snatched hasty from the side-long maid.

These as they change, Almighty Father! these
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of Thee.

Line 625.

Hymn. Line 1.

Line 25.

Shade, unperceived, so softening into shade.

From seeming evil still educing good.

Line 114.

Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise.

Line 118.

Placed far amid the melancholy main.

Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 30.

A little, round, fat, oily man of God.

Canto i. St. 69.

Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves ;
Britons never will be slaves.

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove

An unrelenting foe to love;

And, when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?

O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!*

Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5

Song, For ever Fortune?"

Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Whoe'er amidst the sons

Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue,

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PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751.

IVE while you live, the epicure would say,

And seize the pleasures of the present day;

* The line was altered, after the second edition, to

'O Sophonisba ! I am wholly thine.'

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