Poem by Matthew Prior

Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana

When you with High-Dutch Heeren dine,
Expect false Latin and stum'd wine:
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think. 

1. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
2. To the Author of the Foregoing Pastoral - (Love and Friendship)
3. Written in an Ovid
4. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
5. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers

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