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Matthew Prior was an English poet and diplomat.

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Songs Set To Music: 20. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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A Dutch Proverb
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Songs Set To Music: 7. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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Songs Set To Music: 5. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, when a Child
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On The Same Person (Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me)
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Venus Mistaken
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Songs Set To Music: 16. Set By Mr. Smith
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Fair Susan Did Her Wif-Hede Well Menteine - In Chaucer's Style
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Upon Honour. A Fragment.
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On Bishop Atterbury's Burying The Duke Of Buckingham, 1721
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Phyllis's Age
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Nell and John
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Ode - Promesse De L'Amour
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The Modern Saint
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A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover
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The Honest Shepherd
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Songs Set To Music: 17. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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To A Friend On His Nuptials
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The Parallel
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Songs Set To Music: 22. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto I.
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The Chameleon
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On A Picture Of Seneca Dying In A Bath, By Jordain
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Epitaph - On Himself
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Jinny the Just
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A Lover's Anger
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Henry And Emma. A Poem.
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An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.
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Colin's Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser's Style
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Answer To Cloe Jealous. The Author Sick
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Cupid And Ganymede
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Songs Set To Music: 26.
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The Second Hymn Of Callimachus. To Apollo
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The Turtle And Sparrow. An Elegiac Tale
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Cupid In Ambush
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A Simile
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Cantata. Set By Mons. Galliard
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Songs Set To Music: 27.
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Two Riddles. -- 1710
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In Imitation Of Anacreon
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The Lady's Looking-Glass
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By Mons. Fontenelle
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Songs Set To Music: 18. Set By Mr. Smith
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Songs Set To Music: 3. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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The Pedant
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Songs Set To Music: 10. Set By Mr. Smith
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Down-Hall. A Ballad.
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Merry Andrew
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To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale
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Written In An Ovid
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A Better Answer
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Hans Carvel
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A Passage In The Moriae Encomium Of Erasmus. Imitated
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Presented To The King, At His Arrival In Holland, After The Discovery Of The Conspiracy. 1696
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Songs Set To Music: 21. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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The Judgement Of Venus
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Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace
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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Knowledge. Book I.
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Songs Set To Music: 13. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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The Nut-Brown Maid. A Poem.
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To A Person Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me
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Venus' Advice To The Muses
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Mercury And Cupid
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The Despairing Shepherd
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The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus
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An Epistle. Desiring The Queen's Picture, But Left Unfinished, By The Sudden News Of Her Majesty's Death
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Songs Set To Music: 6. Set By Mr. Smith
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The Thief And Cordelier. A Ballad
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To Dr. Sherlock, On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death
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An Epitaph
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A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim
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Epigram - Frank Carves Very Ill
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Fatal Love
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Considerations - On Part Of The 88th Psalm. A College Exercise
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Democritus And Heraclitus
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An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain
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An Ode
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An Ode - Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms
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Epigram - To John I Owed Great Obligation
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The Female Phaeton
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The Remedy Worse Than The Disease
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An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess
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The Dying Adrian To His Soul
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The Old Gentry
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An Ode - In Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode II.
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Songs Set To Music: 28. Nelly.
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Bibo And Charon
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Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King
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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Pleasure. Book II.
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Wives By The Dozen
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Lisetta's Reply
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The New Year's Gift To Phyllis
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Cloe Jealous
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Full Oft Doth Matt. With Topaz Dine - In Chaucer's Style
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For my own Monument
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Gualterus Danistonus, Ad Amicos. - And Imitation
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Cupid Turned Ploughman. - From Moschus
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The Dove
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To The Honourable Charles Montague, Esq.
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Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto II.
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Cupid Mistaken
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Songs Set To Music: 24. Set By Mr. C. R.
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To A Young Lady, Who Was Fond Of Fortune-Telling
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The Wandering Pilgrim
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Written In The Beginning Of Mezeray's History Of France
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To Chloe Weeping
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Celia To Damon
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A Song. If Wine And Music Have The Power
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On A Fart - Let In The House Of Commons
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A Flower. Painted By Simon Varelst
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To My Lord Buckhurst, Very Young, Playing With A Cat
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To The Lady Elizabeth Harley, Since Marchioness Of Carmarthen, On A Column Of Her Drawing
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Erle Robert's Mice. In Chaucer's Style
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Nonpareil
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An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689
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Daphne to Apollo. Imitated From The First Book Of Ovid's Metamorphosis
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The Conversation. A Tale
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Chaste Florimel
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The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter
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A Reasonable Affliction
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An Ode To Mr. Howard
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Hymn To The Sun
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To Cloe
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Written In The Nouveaux Interests Des Princes De L'Europe
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Epigram - Yes, Every Poet Is A Fool
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To Chloe Jealous
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On My Birthday, July 21
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Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair
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Songs Set To Music: 1. Set By Mr. Abel
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Truth And Falsehood. A Tale
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An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight
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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Power. Book III.
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The Question to Lisetta
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To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, the Author Suppos'd Forty
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Seeing The Duke Of Ormond's Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller's
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Epigram - Thy Nags, The Leanest Things Alive
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Songs Set To Music: 8. Set By Mr. Smith
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For My Own Tombstone
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To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen's
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Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13
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Songs Set To Music: 19. Set By Mr. C. R.
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To The Countess Of Exeter. Playing On The Lute
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Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana
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The Secretary
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Songs Set To Music: 9. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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The Merchant, To Secure His Treasure
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Songs Set To Music: 12. Set By Mr. Smith
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Songs Set To Music: 4. Set By Mr. Smith
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An Ode : On Exodus iii. 14
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To Fortune
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Cupid's Promise - Paraphrased
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Written At Paris, 1700. In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography
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Pallas And Venus. An Epigram
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To Mr. Harley - Wounded by Guiscard
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The Flies
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The Ladle. A Tale
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To A Poet Of Quality. Praising The Lady Hinchinbroke
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An Extempore Invitation To The Earl Of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
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Epitaph Extempore
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Partial Fame
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Songs Set To Music: 11. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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To a Lady
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An Ode - Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers
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Verses - Spoken to Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles-Harley, Countess of Oxford
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An Ode To A Lady. She Refusing To Continue A Dispute With Me, And Leaving Me In The Argument
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Protogenes And Apelles
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Her Right Name
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Songs Set To Music: 23. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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An Ode - Presented To The King, On His Majesty's Arrival In Holland, After The Queen's Death
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The Viceroy. A Ballad.
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An Ode. The Merchant, To Secure
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Song
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Songs Set To Music: 14. Set By Mr. Smith
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The English Padlock
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To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty
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Cupid Turned Stroller. - From Anacreon
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To The Author Of The Foregoing Pastoral - (Love And Friendship)
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To The Lady Dursley
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On Beauty. A Riddle
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The Garland
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Love Disarmed
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Songs Set To Music: 15. Set By Mr. De Fesch
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Songs Set To Music: 2. Set By Mr. Purcell
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Upon Playing At Ombre With Two Ladies
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Chanson. - And Imitation
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Songs Set To Music: 25.
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A Sailor's Wife
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A Flower. Painted By Simon Varelst
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