SONNET XIII. To the Right Hon. Mr. —, with the foregoing SONNETS. Thomas Edwards Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.002 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] p. 334. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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SONNET XIII . To the Right Hon. Mr. — , with the foregoing SONNETS . THOU , who successive in that honor'd seat Presid'st , the feuds of jaring Chiefs to 'swage , To check the boist'rous force of Party rage , Raise modest worth , and guide the high debate , Sometimes retiring from the toils of State , Thou turn'st th' instructive Greek or Roman page , Or what our British Bards of later age In scarce inferior numbers can relate : Amid this feast of Mind , when Fancy's Child , Sweet SHAKESPEAR , raps the soul to virtuous deed , When SPENSER warbling tunes his Doric lays , Or the first Man from Paradise exil'd Great MILTON sings , can aught my rustic reed Presume to sound , that may deserve thy praise ?