And, mixing with buffoons and pimps prophane,
Tainted the Stage, for some small snip of gain,
For they, like harlots, under bawds profest,
Took all th' ungodly pains, and got the leaft,
Thus did the thriving malady prevail,
'The court its head, the Poets but the tail.
The sin was of our native growth, 'tis true;
The scandal of the fin was wholly new.
Misses they were, but modestly conceal'd;
White-hall the naked Venus first reveal'd.
Who ftanding as at Cyprus, in her shrine,
The strumpet was ador'd with rites divine.
Ere this, if saints had

any

secret motion,
'Twas chamber-practice all, and close devotion.
I pass the peccadillos of their time;
Nothing but open lewdness was a crime.
A monarch's blood was venial to the nation,
Compar'd with one foul act of fornication.
Now, they would silence us, and shut the door,
That let in all the bare-fac'd vice before.
As for reforming us, which some pretend,
That work in England is without an end :
Well may we change, but we shall never mend.
Yet, if you can but bear the present Stage,
We hope much better of the coming age.
What would you say, if we should first begin
To stop the trade of love behind the scene:
Where actresses make bold with married men?
For while abroad fo prodigal the dolt is,
Poor spouse at home as ragged as a colt is.

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In short, we'll grow as moral as we can,
Save here and there a woman or a man:
But neither you, nor we, with all our pains,
Can make clean work; there will be some remains,
While you have still your Oats, and we our Hains,

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NINETEENTH VOLUME.

THE

HE Hind and the Panther, in three Parts.
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52 Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Prince, born on the 10th of June, 1688

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121

E P I S T L E S. Epistle 1. To Sir Robert Howard

117 II. To Dr. Charleton III. To the Lady Castlemain

123 IV. To Mr. Lee

125 V. To the Earl of Roscommon

127 VI. To the Duchess of York

130 VII. A Letter to Sir George Etherege 131 VIII. To Mr. Southerne

134 IX. To Henry Higden, Esq.

136 X. To Mr. Congreve

137 XI. T. Mr. Granville

140 XII. To Mr. Motteaux

142 XIII. To John Dryden, Esq. of Chesterton 144 XIV. To Sir Godfrey Kneller

151

ELEGIES

166

ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS,

1. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

II. To the pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew 159

III. Upon the Death of the Earl of Dundee

IV. Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem, dedicated to

the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon 167

V. On the Death of Amyntas

186

VI. On the Death of a very young Gentleman 189

VII. Upon young Mr. Rogers of Gloucestershire 191

VIII. On the Death of Mr. Purcell

ibid.

IX. Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore

192

X. Epitaph on Sir Palmes Fairbones' Tomb

193

XI, Under Milton's Picture

194

XII. On the Monument of a fair Maiden Lady ibid.

XIII. Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Pafton 196

XIV. On the Monument of the Marquis of Win-
chester

ibid.

XV. Epitaph upon the Earl of Rochester's being

dismissed from the Treasury

197

XVI. Intended for Dryden's Wife

198

XVII. On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Picture ibid.
XVIII. Description of old Jacob Tonson ibid.

Songs, Odes, and a MASQUE.

1. The Fair Stranger

199

II. On the young Statesmen

III. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

IV. The Tears of Amynta

204

V. A Song

205

VI. The Lady's Song

206

VII, A Song

207

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VIII, A

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201