Senex To Matt. Prior

"You wrote a line too much, my sage,         Of seers the first, and first of sayers;     For only half the world's a stage,         And only al"

"TO R. K.     As long I dwell on some stupendous     And tremendous (Heaven defend us!)     Monstr'-inform'-ingens-horren"

"If all the harm that women have done     Were put in a bundle and rolled into one,                 Earth would not hold it,                 The"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"