Enter Haly and Caliph.

Of

Sop. Now to your Tears, dear Madam, and the Ghoft

my dead Father, will I confecrate The first Fruits of my Juftice: Let fuch Honours And Funeral Rites, as to his Birth and Virtues Are due, be first performed; then all that were Actors, or Authors of fo black a Deed, Be facrific'd as Victims to his Ghoft: First thou, my holy Devil, that couldft varnish So foul an A& with the fair Name of Piety: Next thou, th' Abufer of thy Prince's Ear. Cal. Sir, I beg your Mercy.

Haly. And I afpeedy Death, nor shall my Refo lution

Difarm it felf, nor condefcend to parly
With foolish Hope.

Sop. 'Twere Cruelty to spare 'em. I am forry
I must commence my Reign in Blood, but Duty
And Juftice to my Father's Soul, exact

This cruel Piery; let's ftudy for a Punishment, A feeling one,

And borrow from our Sorrow fo much Time, T'invent a Torment equal to their Crime.

[Exeunt.

THE

THE

EPILOGUE.

T

IS done, and we alive again, and now

There is no Tragedy, but in your Brow.
And yet our Author hopes you're pleas'd; if not,
This having fail'd, he has a fecond Plot:

'Tis this; the next Day fend us in your Friends,
Then laugh at them, and make your felves amends.
Thus, whether it be good or bad, yet you
May please your felves, and you may please us too :
But look you please the Poet, left he vow
A full Revenge upon you all; but how?
Tis not to kill you all twenty a Day,
He'll do't at once a more compendious way;
He means to write again; but so much worfe,
That seeing that, you'll think it a just Curse
For cenfuring this: 'Faith, give him your Applause,
As you give Beggars Mony; for no Cause,
But that he's troublesome, and he has fwore,
As Beggars do, he'll trouble you no more.

THE

THE

TABLE.

Ooper's Hill.

Co

On

Pag. 1.

The Deftruction of Troy, an Effay on the fecond Book of Virgil's Eneis.

my

14

On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death. 36 Lord Croft's and my Journey into Poland, from whence we brought 100001. for his Majefty, by the Decimation of his Scotish Subjects there.

38

On Mr. Tho. Killigrew's Return from his Embaffie from Venice, and Mr. William Murry's from Scotland.

4I

To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calice to Bologne to eat a Pig.

Natura Naturata.

43

45

Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus in the 12th of Ho

mer.

Martial. Epigram.

46

48

Friendship and Single Life, against Love and Mar

49

riage. On Mr. Abraham Cowley his Death and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets.

54

A Speech against Peace at the Clofe Committee. 58

News from Colchester; or, A proper new Ballad of certain Carnal Paffages betwixt a Quaker and a Colt, at Horfly near Colchefter, in Effex. 68

A Song.

On Mr. John Fletcher's Works.

71

72

74

To Sir Richard Franfhaw, upon his Tranflation of Paftor Fido.

A Dialogue between Sir John Pooley and Mr. Thomas Killigrew.

76

An occafional Imitation of a modern Author upon the Game of Chefs.

79

80

The Paffion of Dido for Æneas.

Of Prudence.

of fuftice.

91

100

The Progress of Learning.

105

Cato Major of Old-Age. A Poem.

115

The Sophy, a Tragedy.

157

FINI S.