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To the Author of Letters to a very little Girl .

Verses written on the blank leaf of a MS. Selection

Sonnet on the Approach of Spring

Sonnet

Adversity, from the French

The Butterfly's Ball

AMARYLLIS,

A PASTORAL MASQUE,

IN ONE ACT.

PART II.

B

PERSONS.

MENALCAS, an old Shepherd, Father of Amaryllis.

LYCIDAS, a gentle Shepherd.

THYRSIS, a vain and courtly young Shepherd.

CORYDON, a rude and uncouth young Shepherd.

SILVIO, a young hunter.

AMARYLLIS, Daughter of Menalcas.

MERSEY, a River-God.

PEACE.

CHORUS of six Shepherds and six Shepherdesses.

AMARYLLIS,

&c.

SCENE.

A rustic temple in a shady grove, hung with festoons of flowers, &c. near it, an altar to the goddess Peace.

Enter MERSEY, in an azure robe, crowned with reeds.

THIS is the spot I seek; for as I lay,
Basking at ease upon my sunny shore,
A rumour reach'd mine ear of distant play,
Of dance and festive sport,

Quainter than ever shepherd held before

To grace his rustic lady's holiday;

And to this grove, it said, there would resort,
Bevies of damsels, fairer far than those