CONTENTS

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The Traveller 1
The Deserted Village 29
The Hermit 57
The Captivity 67
The Haunch of Venison 85
Retaliation 91
The Double Transformation 99
The Gift to Iris 104
The Logicians Refuted 105
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog 108
Threnodia Augustalis 110
A New Simile 122
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind by Lightning 125
Stanzas on Woman 126
Translation from Scarròn 126
Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec 127
Epitaph on Edward Purdon 128
Translation of a South American Ode 128
Epitaph on Thomas Parnell 129
Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber 130
Song, from the Comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer” 131
Answer to an Invitation to Dinner. 133
Song, intended to have been sung in “She Stoops to Conquer” 135
From the Latin of Vida 135
An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize 136
Answer to an Invitation to pass the Christmas at Barton 138
On Seeing a Lady Perform a Certain Character 141
Birds 142
Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius 143
Prologue to “Zobeide” 144
Epilogue to “The Sister” 146
Epilogue intended for “She Stoops to Conquer” 148
Another Intended Epilogue 153
Epilogue to “She Stoops to Conquer” 155
Epilogue to “The Good-natured Man” 157
On the Death of the Right Hon. —— 159
Epilogue Written for Mr. Charles Lee Lewes 163