PARNELL.
The following verses by Parnell are not included in any edition of his poems that I have seen. They are printed in Steele's Miscellany (12mo. 1714), p. 63., and in the second edition of the same Miscellany (12mo. 1727), p. 51., with Parnell's name, and, what is more, on both occasions among other poems by the same author.
TO A YOUNG LADY
On her Translation of the Story of Phoebus and Daphne, from Ovid.
In Phoebus, Wit (as Ovid said)
Enchanting Beauty woo'd;
In Daphne beauty coily fled,
While vainly Wit pursu'd.
But when you trace what Ovid writ,
A diff'rent turn we view;