THE

WORKS

OF

Dr. Jonathan Swift,

Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

VOLUME VI.

LONDON,

Printed for C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet.

MDCC LIV.

THE

CONTENTS

OF VOL. VI.

N. B. Whatever are not mark'd with a

Star are Dr. SWIFT's.

ADENUS and VANESSA.

CA

Baucis and Philemon

Page 3

36

A defcription of a city fhower. In imita-
tion of Virgil's Georg.

A defcription of the morning.

43

46

The feventh epiftle of Horace imitated, and

addreffed to the earl of Oxford, in the

year 1718.

48

Part of the fixth fatire of the fecond book of

Horace imitated.

55

61

62

* The happy life of a country parfon. In

imitation of Martial.

* A tale of Chaucer, lately found in an old

manufcript.

*The alley. An imitation of Spencer. 63

*The capon's tale. To a lady who father'd

her lampoons upon her acquaintance. 66

Verfes wrote on a lady's ivory table-book. 68

Frances Harris's petition to their excellencies

the lords juftices of Ireland. 69

b

A bal-

76

A ballad to the tune of the Cutpurse.

Vanbrugh's house, built from the ruins of

Whitehall.

The hiftory of Vanbrugh's boufe.

78

83

85

The virtues of Sid Hamet the magician's

rod.

89

Atlas; or, The minister of state. To the lord

treasurer Oxford.

The defcription of a falamander. Out of

Pliny's Nat. Hift. Lib. 10. c. 67. and

Lib. 29. c. 4.

90

* The elephant: or, The parliament-man.

Written many years fince. Taken from

Coke's inftitutes.

An elegy on the fuppofed death of Partridge

the almanack maker.

The epitaph.

*

93

95

99

Verfes to be prefix'd before Bernard Lin-
tot's new mifcellany.

ibid.

* To Mr. John Moore, author of the cele-

*

brated worm-powder.

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Verfes occafioned by an etc. at the end of

Mr. D'Urfy's name in the title to one of

bis plays.

103

* Prologue, defign'd for Mr. D'Urfy's laft

*

Sandys's ghoft: or, A proper new ballad on

the new Ovid's Metamorphofes, as it

was intended to be tranflated by perfons

of quality.

* Umbra.

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113

* Duke upon duke. An excellent new ballad.

To the tune of Chevy Chace.

* Fragment of a fatire.

* Macer.

On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

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127

128

129

Apollo gutwitted. To the honourable Mrs.

Finch, under her name of Ardelia. 130

Impromptu. To lady Winchelfea. Occa-

fioned by four fatirical verfes on women

wits in the Rape of a lock.

*

• Epigram.

Stella's birth-day, 1718.

133

ibid.

134

ibid.

Stella's birth-day, 1720.

Stella's birth day. A great bottle of wine,

long buried, being that day dug up, 1722.

Stella's birth-day, 1724.

Stella's birth-day, March 13, 1726.