Contents of the Fourth Volume.

PROLOGUE to the SATIRES, in an Epi-

Ale to Dr. ARBUTHNOT

9

SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE

imitated.

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, Sat. I.

53

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, Sat II.

77

The First Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. 1.10 1
The First Book of the Epistles of Horace, Ep. VI.

I 25

The Second Book of the Epistles of Horace, Ep. I.

149

The Second Book of the Epistles of Horace, Ep. II.

205

69 SATIRES of Dr. John Donne Dean of St.

Paul's, verfified.

SATIRE III.

247

SATIRE II.

255

SATIRE IV.

229

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Vol. IV.

EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE to the Satires.

DIALOGUE I.

299

DIALOGUE II.

On receiving from the Right Honourable the : -

Lady FRANCES SHIRLEY, a fandish and

two pens

339

318

EPISTLE

E P I S T L E

TO

Dr. ARBUTHNOT.

Vol. IV.

B

A DVERTISEMENT

TO

The first publication of this Epistle.

T

HIS
paper

is a sort of bill of complaint, begun many years since, and drawn up by snatches, as the several occasions offered.

I had no thoughts of publishing it, till it pleased some Persons of Rank and Fortune (the Authors of Verses to the Imitator of Horace, and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court] to attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my Writings (of which, being public, the Public is judge) but my Perfon, Morals, and Family, whereof, to those who know me not, à truer information may be requisite. Being divided between the necessity to say something of myself, and my own laziness to undertake so awkward a task, I thought it the shortest way to put the last hand to this Epistle. If it have any thing pleasing, it will be that by which I am most desirous to please, the Truth and the Sentiment; and if any thing offensive, it will be only to those I am least sorry to offend, the vicious or the ungenerous.

Many will know their own pictures in it, there being not a circumstance but what is true; but I have,