ΤΟ LADY MARY CHAMBERS. ON HER INTENDED VOYAGE INTO TURKEY. BY BAINBRIGG BUCKEREDGE, ESQ. WHY should the charming Galatea shun Love in those eyes so absolutely reigns, We're slaves by choice, nor wish to quit our chains; Vain of our wounds, and proud to be undone, And spread a powerful empire o'er the main. And melt their tyrant hearts with flames of love? Ev'n he, whose nod a thousand beauties wait, But O! bright Nymph, let not a long return Make wretched we your tedious absence mourn: Let then the barbarous nations soon restore Fair Galatea to the British shore: Else they expect in vain the war should cease, And England's Moderator signs in vain the peace. TO THE LADY MARCHIONESS GREY. BY THE HONORABLE MISS MARGARET YORKE. THY shades, Vacuna, and thy verdant meads, And O! inspire my verse, while it recites Or if with laughter clear the dome resounds, Now graver studies give more solid joys: Still Innocence and Virtue lead the round, With Mirth and Pleasure all our days are crown'd. And O! if Heaven will hear my ardent prayer, And grant a wish, which from my bosom ne'er Shall be remov'd-long may these shades obey The mild commands of her, whose name adorns this lay! ТО А LADY, WITH A PRESENT OF POPE's WORKS. BY THE HON. CHARLES YORKE. THE lover oft, to please some faithless dame, |