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CONTENTS.

[Preface][vii]
[The Retrospect][1]
[Romance][17]
[To Urban][27]
[The Miser's Mansion][31]
[Elegy. The Decayed Farm-House][35]
[Epitaph][39]
[Elegy. The Decayed Monastery][41]
[To Hymen][47]
[Hospitality][51]
[Sonnet 1. To Ariste][57]
[Sonnet 2.][58]
[Sonnet 3.][59]
[Sonnet 4.][60]
[Sonnet 5. Dunnington-Castle][61]
[Sonnet 6.][62]
[Sonnet 7. Written on a Journey][63]
[Sonnet 8. To Happiness][64]
[Sonnet 9.][65]
[Sonnet 10. To Fame][66]
[Sonnet 11. To the Fire][67]
[Sonnet 12. The Faded Flower][68]
[Sonnet 13. To Sensibility][69]
[Sonnet 14. To Health][70]
[Sonnet 15. To the Nightingale][71]
[Sonnet 16. To Reflection][72]
[The Wish. To a Friend][73]
[To Lycon][77]
[To Lydon][81]
[Rosamund to Henry; written after she had taken the Veil][85]
[The Race of Odin][97]
[The Death of Odin][103]
[The Death of Moses][113]
[The Death of Mattathias][123]

PREFACE.

A quaint Author of the year 1633, in his pithy Proeme to a book, entituled

THE
PHILOSOPHERS BANQVET,

Newly Furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes,

aptly sayeth

"To the Iuditious Reader,

"Him that will buy this Booke; thus in the commendation and use thereof.

"Good Reader, many things hath beene written by many men, and the over-cloying humor of this age hath so overburdened the world with multiplicity of al kinds, that scarce there is one subject left upon the head whereof a hundred have not trampled over: amongst which impartial handling, it may bee possible that some one corner hath escaped this scrutenous search, and beene raked over with a lighter hand than other."