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 To Thomas Butts 184 To Mrs. Butts To Thomas Butts To Thomas Butts To my friend Butts I write With Happiness stretch'd across the hills O ! why was I born with a different face ?

Gnomic Verses, Epigrams, and short Satirical Pieces Gnomic Verses Great things are done when men and mountains meet 193 To God ...... They said this mystery never shall cease An Answer to the Parson Lacedaemonian Instruction. Nail his neck to the cross : nail it with a nail Love to faults is always blind There souls of men are bought and sold Soft Snow ..... Abstinence sows sand all over Merlin's Prophecy If you trap the moment before it 's ripe An Old Maid early ere I knew The sword sung on the barren heath O lapwing ! thou fliest around the heath Terror in the house does roar Several Questions Answered Eternity The look of love alarms Soft deceit and idleness What is it men in women do require An ancient Proverb. If I e'er grow to man's estate Since all the riches of this world. Riches The Angel that presided o'er my birth Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven Do what you will this life's a fiction

On Art and Artists Advice of the Popes who succeeded the Age of Raphael. . 198 On the great encouragement given by English nobility and gentry to Correggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Catalani, Du Crow, and Dilbury Doodle x 99 I asked my dear friend Orator Prig ... ... 199 vii