CONTENTS

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The Traveller[1]
The Deserted Village[29]
The Hermit[57]
The Captivity[67]
The Haunch of Venison[85]
Retaliation[91]
The Double Transformation[99]
The Gift to Iris[104]
The Logicians Refuted[105]
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog[108]
Threnodia Augustalis[110]
A New Simile[122]
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind by Lightning[125]
Stanzas on Woman[126]
Translation from Scarròn[126]
Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec[127]
Epitaph on Edward Purdon[128]
Translation of a South American Ode[128]
Epitaph on Thomas Parnell[129]
Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber[130]
Song, from the Comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer”[131]
Answer to an Invitation to Dinner.[133]
Song, intended to have been sung in “She Stoops to Conquer”[135]
From the Latin of Vida[135]
An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize[136]
Answer to an Invitation to pass the Christmas at Barton[138]
On Seeing a Lady Perform a Certain Character[141]
Birds[142]
Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius[143]
Prologue to “Zobeide”[144]
Epilogue to “The Sister”[146]
Epilogue intended for “She Stoops to Conquer”[148]
Another Intended Epilogue[153]
Epilogue to “She Stoops to Conquer”[155]
Epilogue to “The Good-natured Man”[157]
On the Death of the Right Hon. ——[159]
Epilogue Written for Mr. Charles Lee Lewes[163]