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A41703 To the society of the Beaux esprits a pindarick poem / by the author of the late Satyr against Woman. Gould, Robert, d. 1709? 1687 (1687) Wing G1437; ESTC R19497 8,879 34

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still in danger try'd And always prov'd a faithful Guide Reason the Polar Star That does discover Happiness from far Straiten the crooked Path found by so few Contract the Space and set all Heav'n in view A Pilot that can through Life's Ocean Steer As safe in Storms as if the Skies were clear While those who stupidly believe And pin their Faith upon a Zealot's Sleeve Are still with Doubts and killing Fears perplext This hour of one persuasion none the next But Reason drest in Adamantine Arms Does end the frightful Charms All subtle Shifts descry With it's sharp-sighted Eagles Eye Before whose pow'rful Rays the gloomy Phantoms fly XVIII VVhile thus you hold Discourse the Gobblet's crown'd And twice or thrice does nimbly move around Care that disturber of our Rest That grown habitual to the Breast And hardly ever leaves what it has once possest Ev'n that curst Fiend at such a Time takes wing You hardly think there 's such a thing Yet nothing impious or profane Lewd Ridiculous or Vain Nothing is spoke but what the Nuns might hear VVere they much chaster than they are VVith You Mirth's cloath'd in it's true Genuine Shape Not like an Ass an Owl or Ape But in the same Garb it was drest by Ben There 's as much difference between Mirth as Men And now you envy not ev'n Kings themselves Nor all the under Fry of Courtly Elves Who like the Moon their borrow'd Lustre owe And Tradesmen are the Suns that make 'em glitter so The Troubles of Mortality you view Those num'rous and it's Blessings few The Evil that o're mankind brooding sits That fattens Fools and starves the Wits What Fears and Jealousies are broach'd by Knaves Believ'd by Cowards and by Slaves And since true Pleasure flits and will not stay You this way take a Draught without allay And make the dull Fatigue of Life fly pleasantly away XIX What Honours then you mighty Few Ought here to be conferr'd on You That make Life pleasant and improve yourselves in knowledge too What Trophies to your Fame must we erect And O what VVonders may we not expect Thô distant now brought home within our view By Men so qualified as you That ev'n at your first setting out can be So worthy of a History But that I know you scorn to raise A Monument in your own praise I should presume to ask Some One of you to undertake that Task For where alas where else can there be found A Sprat your Grandeur to resound VVhere else a Cowley in his Lofty Verse Your Glory to rehearse And to the Heav'nly Arch make the loud Eccho bound Your Glory which like the fixt Star wou'd shine And as propitious be To all that want a Guide as he Had this great Subject been adorn'd by any Muse but Mine FINIS A Catalogue of Poems and Plays Printed for H. Herringman and sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders In Folio BEaumont Fletchers Plays Shakespear's Plays Sir. William Davenant 's Plays Earl of Orrery's 4 Plays Sir Rob. Howard's 4 Plays Mr. Cowley's Poems Earl of Orrery's Poems on the Festivals of the Church Mr. Killegrew's Plays Mrs. Philips Poems and Plays In Quarto Mr. Dryden's Plays in 2 vol. viz. Indian Emperor Royal Martyr Mock-Astrologer Granada 2 parts Sir Martin Marr-All Marriage A-la-Mode Love in a Nunnery All for Love. Maiden-Queen Wild Gallant Rival-Ladies Tempest alter'd by him Amboyna Aurenge Zebe State of Innocence Of Dramatick Poesie an Essay By Mr. Witcherly Love in a Wood. Gentleman Dancing-Master By Sir George Etheridge She Wou'd if She Cou'd Sir Foplin Flutter Love in a Tub. By Mr. Shadwell Sullen Lovers Humorist Psyche Virtuoso Royal Shepherdess Epsom Wells Libertine Timon of Athens altered by him By Sir Charles Sidly Mulberry Garden By Several Persons Adventures of Five Hours Love in the Dark The Usurper The Coffee-House The Roman Empress The Mayor of Queenborough The Womans Conquest The Amazon Queen Sir Francis Drake Peleus and Thetis Poetry in Octavo Lord Brooks Remains Sir Robert Howard's Poems Mr. Howard's British Princess Esq Ayre 's Lyric Poems being Translations out of several Authors Sir John Sucklin's Poems Sir John Denham's Poems Sir Richard Fanshaw's Pastor Fido. Mr. Waller's Poems Dr. Donn's Poems