Quis multa gracilis te puer in… For whom are now your airs put on, And what new beauty’s doom’d to be… That careless elegance of dress, This essence that perfumes the win…

Ungodly papers ev’ry week Poor simple souls persuade That courtiers good for nothing ar… Or but for mischief made. But I who know their worthy heart…

To that dear nymph, whose pow’rful… Does every throbbing nerve inflame (As the soft sound I low repeat, My pulse unequal measures beat), Whose eyes I never more shall see…

How happy is the harden’d heart, Where interest is the only view! Can sigh and meet, or smile and pa… Nor pleas’d, nor griev’d, nor fals… Yet, have they truly peace of mind…

See how the pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves; And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys; No fears of future want molest

The Doctor in a clean starch’d ba… His Golden Snuff box in his hand, With care his Di’mond Ring displa… And Artfull shews its various Ray… While Grave he stalks down——Stree…

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…

Written at Twelve Years of Ag… Are love and pow’r incapable to me… And must they all be wretched who… Enslav’d by titles, and by forms c… For wretched victims to the state…

What could luxurious woman wish fo… To fix her joys, or to extend her… Their every wish was in this Mary… Gay, witty, youthful, beauteous, a… Vain, useless blessings with ill-c…

Though I never got possession, ’Tis a pleasure to adore; Hope, the wretch’s only blessing, May in time procure me more. Constant courtship may obtain her,…

Written January 1718 in the Ch… Give me Great God (said I) a Lit… in Summer shady, & in Winter… where a cool spring gives birth to… by Nature slideing down a mossy R…

Sent from Italy, 1741 But happy you from the contagion f… Who, through her veil, can human n… Calm you reflect, amid the frantic… On the low views of those mistaken…

Solvitur acris hyems grata vice… Sharp winter now dissolv’d, the li… The grateful breath of pleasing Z… The welcome joys of long-desired s… The galleys now for open sea prepa…

Since you, Mr. H**d, will marry b… Accept of good wishes for that ble… May you fight all the day like a d… And yet ev’ry year produce a new b… Fal la!

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…