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SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

THE THIRD EDITION.

Θεον σε 8 και παια πράξεις ευθεως.
Υπερ Ευσεβειας και λαλει και μανθανε.

INCERT.

LONDON:

Printed for JOHN, FRANCIS and CHARLES
RIVINGTON, at the Bible and Crown (No 62.)
in St. Paul's Church-Yard.

M.DCC.LXXVI.

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TO THE

EARL of BATH.

MY LORD,

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HE World will judge the more favourably of this Collection, from being told that it was printed by Your Defire: and my own Scruples about the Publication will be the

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DEDICATION.

lefs painful, if You accept it as a
Testimony of the Gratitude and
Refpect, with which I have the
Honour to be,

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WHATEVER Honour the Author of this Collection may derive from the following fine Verses, there is no Part of it on which the fets fo high a Value, as the being allowed to declare, that fhe is indebted for them to Lord Lyttleton.

On reading Mrs.

's POEMS in Manuscript.

SUCH
UCH were the Notes that ftruck the wond'ring Ear

Of filent Night, when, on the verdant Banks
Of Siloe's hallow'd Brook, celeftial Harps,
Accorded to feraphic Voices, fung

Glory to God on high, and on the Earth

Peace, and Good-will to Men!—Refume the Lyre
Chauntress divine, and ev'ry Briton call
It's Melody to hear-so shall thy Strains,
More pow'rful than the Song of Orpheus, tame
The favage Heart of brutal Vice, and bend
At pure Religion's Shrine the stubborn Knees
Of bold Impiety-Greece fhall no more

Of Lesbian Sappho boast, whose wanton Muse,
Like a falfe Syren, while fhe charm'd, feduc'd

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