Printed for G. HAMILTON, J. BALFOUR, & L. HUNTER. M,DCC, LVII.

The CONTENTS.

MISCELLANIES in VERSE.

N. B. Whatever verses are marked with an afte-

risk* prefixed, are not Dr Swift's.

45

A description of a city-shower. In imitation of Vir-

gil's Georgics

51

A description of the morning

53

Horace, epift. 7. book 1. imitated, and addressed to

the Earl of Oxford, in the year 1713,

54

Horace, lib. 2. fat. 6. part of it imitated

60

• The happy life of a country-parfon. In imitation

of Martial

64

* A tale of Chaucer, lately found in an old manufcript 65

* The alley. An imitation of Spencer

66

* The capon's tale. To a lady who fathered her

lampoons upon her acquaintance

68

Verses written in a lady's ivory table book

69

Mrs Harris's petition to their Excellencies the Lords

Justices of Ireland

70

A ballad to the tune of the Cutpurfe

75

Vanbrugh's house, built from the ruins of Whitehall 76

The history of Vanbrugh's house

80

The virtues of Sid Hamet the magician's rod

82

Atlas; or, The minifter of state. To the Lord Trea-

furer Oxford

85

The description of a falamander. Out of Pliny's na-

tural history, lib. 10. c. 67. and lib 29. c. 4.

* The elephant; or, The parliament-man. Written

many years fince. Taken from Coke's institutes 88

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