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ROBERT EARL OF HOLDERNESSE, BARON D'ARCY, MENIL AND CONYERS,

LORD WARDEN

OF HIS MAJESTY'S CINQUE PORTS,

AND

GOVERNOR OF DOVER CASTLE.

SONNET.

'ARCY, to thee, whate'er of happier vein,

D'A

Smit with the love of Song, my youth effay'd, This verse devotes from ASTON's fecret fhade, Where letter'd Ease, thy gift, endears the scene. Here, as the light-wing'd moments glide ferene, I weave the bower, around the tufted mead In careless flow the fimple pathway lead, And ftrew with many a rose the shaven green. So, to deceive my folitary days,

With rural toils ingenuous arts I blend,

Secure from envy, negligent of praise,

Yet not unknown to fame, if D'ARCY lend

His wonted smile to dignify my lays,

The Muse's Patron, but the Poet's Friend.

May 12, 1763.

W. MASON.

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MUSE U S:

A

MONODY

TO THE

MEMORY of Mr. POPE.

ΙΝ

Imitation of MILTON's Lycidas.

Πᾶσε μὲν τοῖς ἀρχεῖύποις αὐτοφύης τις ἐπιπρέπις Χάρις, καὶ ὥρα. Τοῖς δ ̓ ἀπὸ τέτων καλεσκευασμένοις, κἂν ἐπ ̓ ἄκρον μιμήσεως ἔλθωσι, πρόσεςι τι ὅμως τὸ ἐπιλεληδευμένον, καὶ ἐκ ἐκ φύσεως ὑπάρχον.

DIONYS. HALICARN. in Dinarcho.