ROXANA from the court retiring… Sigh’d her soft sorrows at St. J… Such heavy thoughts lay brooding i… Not her own chairmen |w^th^| more… They groan the cruel load they’re…

Let mules and asses in that circle… And proud of trappings toss a feat… Leave you the stupid business of t… Strive to be happy, and despise th… Come where the Graces guide the g…

Wisdom, slow product of laborious… The only fruit that life’s cold wi… Thy sacred seeds in vain in youth… By the fierce storm of passion tor… Should some remain in a rich gen’r…

Written on a window, soon after… Whilst thirst of praise and vain d… In every age is every woman’s aim; With courtship pleas’d, of silly t… Fond of a train, and happy in a cr…

Written extempore on a card, in… Hail, happy bride, for thou art tr… Three months of rapture, crown’d w… Merit like yours was Heav’n’s pec… You lov’d—yet tasted happiness sin…

FLAVIA. The wretched FLAVIA on her couc… Thus breath’d the anguish of a wou… A glass revers’d in her right hand… For now she shun’d the face she so…

DANCINDA. “ NO, fair DANCINDA, no ; you… ” To calm my care and mitigate my… “ If all my sighs, my cares, can f… ” Ah! sooth me not with fruitless…

If age and sickness, poverty and p… Should each assault me with altern… I know mankind is destin’d to comp… And I submit to torment and fatig… The pious farmer, who ne’er misses…

Read, lovely nymph, and tremble no… I have no more to wish, nor you to… I ask not life, for life to me wer… And death a refuge from severer pa… My only hope in these last lines…

Her palace plac’d beneath a muddy… And such the influence of the dull… The carrier’s horse above can scar… Here chose the goddess her belov’d… Which Phoebus tries in vain to pe…

Written in July, in an arbour<… Thou silver deity of secret night, Direct my footsteps through the wo… Thou conscious witness of unknown… The Lover’s guardian, and the Mus…

CARDELIA. The bassette-table spread, the tal… Why stays SMILINDA in the dres… Rise, pensive nymph! the tallier s… SMILINDA.

You little know the heart that you… I view this various scene with equ… In crowded courts I find myself a… And pay my worship to a nobler thr… Long since the value of this world…

In two large columns on thy motley… Where Roman wit is strip’d with E… Where ribaldry to satire makes pre… And modern scandal rolls with anci… Whilst on one side we see how Hor…

Dear Colin, prevent my warm blush… Since how can I speak without pai… My eyes oft have told you my wishe… Why don’t you their meaning explai… My passion will lose by expression…