Chapter VI

While thus I did exclaime,
And wildly rage and blame,
Behold the _Sylvan_-Quire
Did all at one conspire,
With shrill and cheerful Throats,
T'assume their chirping Notes;
The Heav'ns refulgent Eye
Dance't in the clear'd-up Skie,
And so triumphant shon,
As seven-days Beams he had on!
The little Loves burn'd with Nobler Fire,
Each chang'd his wanton Bow, and took a Lyre,
Singing chast Aires unto the tuneful strings,
And time'd soft Musick with their downy Wings.
I turn'd the little Nymph to view,
She singing and did smiling shew;
_Eudora_ led a heavenly strain,
Her Angels Voice did eccho it again!
I then decreed no Sacriledge was wrought,
But neerer Heav'n this Piece of Heaven was brought.
She also brighter seem'd, than she had been,
Vertue darts forth a Lightning 'bove the Skin.
_Eudora_ also shew'd as heretofore,
When her soft Graces I did first adore.
I saw, what one did _Nobly Will_,
The other _sweetly did fulfil_;
Their Actions all harmoniously did sute,
And she had only tun'd the Lady like her Lute.

On the Soft and Gentle Motions of Eudora.

Divine _Thalia_ strike th'Harmonious Lute,
But with a Stroke so Gentle as may sute
The silent gliding of the Howers,
Or yet the calmer growth of Flowers;
Th'ascending or the falling Dew,
Which none can see, though all find true.
For thus alone,
Can be shewn,
How downie, how smooth,
_Eudora_ doth Move,
How Silken her Actions appear,
The Aire of her Face,
Of a gentler Grace
Then those that do stroke the Eare.
Her Address so sweet,
So Modestly Meet,
That 'tis not the Lowd though Tuneable String,
Can shewforth so soft, so Noyseless a Thing!
O This to express from thy Hand must fall,
Then Musicks self, something more Musical.

_FINIS._

ERRATA.

In Mr. _Drydens_ Ode, Stanzo 5. at the end of the first line read [None.] p. 9. v. 6. for her r. its. p. 24. v. 1. for renown'd r. renowned. p. 38. v. last but one, for renounced r. renowned. p. 57. v. 1, instead of the Interrogation-point, make a Comma. p. 97. v. 13. r. burn'd with a nobler fier.

THE
TABLE.

Alexandreis. Page 1
_To the Queen._ 6
_A Pastoral Dialogue._ 11
_On Death._ 13
_First Epigram, Upon being contended with a Little._ 15
_The Second Epigram, On_ Billinda. ibid.
_The Third Epigram, On an Atheist._ 16
_The Fourth Epigram, On_ Galla. 17
_A Farewel to Worldly Joys._ 18
_The Complaint of a Lover._ 19
_Love, the Soul of Poetry._ 22
_To my Lady_ Berkley, _Afflicted upon her Son my
Lord_ Berkley_'s early Engaging in the Sea-Service_. 24
_St._ John _Baptist Painted by her Self in the Wilderness,
with Angels appearing to him, and with a Lamb by him_. 27
Herodias_'s Daughter presenting to her Mother St._ Johns _Head
in a Silver Charger, also Painted by her self._ ibid.
_On a Picture Painted by her self, representing two_ Nymphs
_of_ Diana_'s, one in a posture to Hunt, the other Batheing_. 28
_An Invective against Gold._ 30
_The Miseries of Man._ 32
_Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another._ 44
_On the Birth-Day of Queen_ Katherine. 47
_To my Lord_ Colrane, _in Answer to his Complemental
Verses sent me under the Name of_ Cleanor. 49
_The Discontent._ 51
_A Pastoral Dialogue._ 57
_A Pastoral Dialogue._ 63
_On my Aunt Mrs._ A. K. _drowned under_ London-_Bridge
in the Queens Barge, 1641_. 76
_On a young Lady, whose Lord was Travelling._ 77
_On the Dutchess of_ Grafton, _under the Name of_ Allinda,
_a Song_. 79
Penelope _to_ Ulysses. 81
_An Epitaph on her Self._ 82
_An Ode._ ibid.
_Extemporary Counsel, given to a young Gallant in a Frolic._ 84
Cloris _Charms Dissolv'd by_ Eudora. 85
_Upon a Little Lady under the Discipline of an Excellent Person._ 92
_On the soft and gentle motions of_ Eudora. 99

[** Transcriber's Notes:
- Replaced [oe] ligature in Coelites with simple "oe".
- Right braces spanning multiple lines in the text have been
replaced with vertical "}"'s.
- Changed spelling of "pictturesque" to "picturesque" in first
paragraph of the INTRODUCTION.
- In poem "the Second EPIGRAM" changed spelling of "Bellinda" to
"Billinda" in Line 1 above to make it consistent with title
and TOC. **]