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 BOYLE in the Philosophical Transactions. “A free Discourse against customary Swearing, and a Dissuasive from Cursing;" and, lastly, " Medicinal Experiments; or, a Collection of choice Remedies, chiefly simple, and easily prepared, useful in Families and fit for the service of the Country People. The third and last volume; published from the Author's original Manuscript; whereunto are added several useful Notes, explicatory of the same." The first edition of this work was in 1688, under the title of " Receipts sent to a Friend in America" it was reprinted in 1692, with the addition of a second part; to which was now added (in 1698) a third volume, as above. These posthumous works, joined to tbose before men- tioned, together with his numerous scattered pieces in the Philosophical Transactions, have been collected together and published by Dr. Birch, in 6 vols. 4to. HENRIETTA BOYLE, ADY O'NEILL, is introduced here as the authoress of several elegant little poems, which grace the pages of Mrs. Charlotte Smith; for a specimen of which we insert ODE TO THE POPPY her Not for the promise of the labour'd field Not for the good the yellow harvests yield, I bend at Ceres' shrine ; For dull to humid eyes appear The golden glories of the year; Alas! a melancholy worship's mine : I hail the goddess for her scarlet flow'r! Thou brilliant weed, That dost so far exceed The richest gifts gay Flora can bestow, Heedless I pass'd thee in life's morning hour, Thou comforter of woe, "Till sorrow taught me to confess thy pow'r. VOL. 1.