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THE

WORKS

OF THE

AUTHOR

OF THE

NIGHT-THOUGHTS.

In FOUR VOLUMES.

REVISED and CORRECTED by Himself.

A NEW EDITION.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

Printed for D. BROWNE, C. HITCH and L. HAWES,
A. MILLAR, J. and R. TONSON, J. RIVINGTON,
S. CROWDER and Co. C. CORBETT
J. JACKSON, R. and J. DODSLEY,
and J. RICHARDSONa

MDCCLXII,

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NIGHT the NINTH and LAST.

THE

CONSOLATION.

VOL. IV.

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NIGHT the NINTH and LAST.

THE

CONSOLATION.

Containing, among other Things,

I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-ADDRESS to the DEITY.

Humbly Infcribed to His GRACE

The DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, One of His Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State.

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-Fatis contraria fata rependins. VIRG.

S when a traveller, a long day past

In painful search of what he cannot find,
At night's approach, content with the next cot,
There ruminates, a while, his labour loft;
Then chears his heart with what his fate affords,
And chants his fonnet to deceive the time,
Till the due feason calls him to repose:
Thus I, long-travell'd in the ways of men,
And dancing, with the reft, the giddy maze,

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