The Works of the English Poets: Pope

IN COMITIS EXONIENSIS CRISTAM,.
Tritici Fafcem Leonibus fuftentatum. 1689.
Lemma, "Suftentare et Debellare."

DUM tibi dat fortes Cybele veneranda leones,

Flavaque collectas addit Eleufis opes: Invidiâ major, victoque potentior ævo,

I decus, I noftra Ceciliana domus.

Sparge inopi fruges, & pelle leonibus hoftem;
Copia quid valet hinc, quid timor inde, refer.
Pollens muneribus belli vel pacis, habes, quo
Atque homines fuperes, atque imitêre Deos.

EPITAPH I U M.

M. S. CAROLI MONTAGUE,

Honorabilis Georgii de Horton in agro Northantonienfi
Filius natu fextus,

Henrici Comitis de Manchester nepos,
Scholia Regia Weftmonafterienfis Alumnus,
Collegii S. S. Trinitatis Cantabrigienfis Socius.
Literas humaniores feliciter excoluit,
Et in difpari laudis genere clarus,

Inter Poetas pariter ac Oratores Anglos excelluit:
Magna ingenii indole ;

Bonarumque artium difciplinis inftructus,
Ex Academiæ umbraculis

In confpectum hominum prodiit,

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Literatorum

Literatorum decus & præfidium.
Omni dehinc cogitatione
Communi bono promovendo incubuit :
Brevique hunc virum,

Sua in fenatu folertia, in concilio providentia,
In utroque, juftitia, fides, auctoritas,
Ad gerendam ærarii curam evexit :
Ubi laborantibus fifci rebus opportunè fubveniens,
Simul monetam argenteam

Magno Reipublicæ detrimento imminutam
De novo cudi fecit;

Et inter abfolvendum tantæ molis

Flagrante etiam bello,

Impreffis chartulis

opus,

Pecuniarum rationem pretiumque impertiit.
Ilis meritis et patriæ & principis gratiam confecutus,
Familiam fuam diu illuftrem, illuftriorem reddidit;
Baro fcilicet, deinde comes de Halifax creatus,
Ad tres Montacutani nominis proceres quartus acceffit.
Summo denique Perifcelidis honore ornatus,
Publici commodi indefeffus adhuc confultor,
Media inter conamina, otium cum dignitate,
Quod defideravit, & meruit, vix tandem affecutus ;
(Proh brevem humanarum rerum fiduciam !)
Omnibus bonis flebilis occidit,

XIX die Maii, Anno Salutis MDCCXV.
Etatis fuæ LIV.

Patruo de fe optimè merenti,

Et bonorum & honorum hæres,
Georgius comes de Halifax

ЕРІТАРН.

EPITAPH.

Here lies Sir THOMAS POWYS, Knight:
As to his Profession,

In accufing, cautious; in defending, vehement;
In all his pleadings, fedate, clear, and strong;
In all his decifions, unprejudic'd and equitable.
He ftudied, practifed, and governed the Law
In fuch a manner, that

Nothing equaled his knowledge, except his eloquence;
Nothing excelled both, except his justice.
As to his Life,

He poffeffed, by a natural happiness,
All thofe civil virtues which form the gentleman:
And to thefe, by divine goodness, were added
That fervent zeal and extenfive charity,
Which diftinguish the perfect Christian!
The tree is known by his fruit.

He was a loving husband and an indulgent father,
A conftant friend and a charitable patron;
Frequenting the devotions of the church;
Pleading the caufe, and relieving the neceffities,
of the poor.

What by example he taught throughout his life, At his death he recommended to his family and friends: "To fear God, and live uprightly."

Let whoever reads this ftone,

Be wife, and be inftructed.

CONTENTS

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

To the Right Honourable Mr. Harley,

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To Mr. Harley, wounded by Guifcard, 1711.
Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord
High Treasurer, 1714.

Erle Robert's Mice, in Chaucer's Style.

Two Poems in the fame Style.

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The First Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter.
The Second Hymn of Callimachus. To Apollo.
Charity. A Paraphrafe on the Thirteenth Chapter
of the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

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Cupid in Ambush.

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Engraved on a Column in the Church of Halftead

in Effex; the Spire of which, burnt down by

Lightning, was re-built at the Expence of Mr.

Samuel Fiske, 1717.

Alma; or the Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos.