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THE

UNION:

OR,

SELECT

SCOTS and ENGLISH

POEMS.

THE SECOND EDITION.

----_Dubiam facientia carmina palmam._      JUV.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. BALDWIN, IN PATERNOSTER-ROW.

M.DCC.LIX.




PREFACE.


As the mind of man is ever fond of variety, nothing seems better
calculated to entertain, than a judicious collection of the smaller,
though not on that account less laboured, productions of eminent poets:
an entertainment, not unlike that which we receive from surveying a
finished landschape, or well disposed piece of shell-work: where each
particular object, tho' singly beautiful, and sufficiently striking by
itself, receives an additional charm, thus, as Milton expresses it,
SWEETLY INTERCHANGED.

The first miscellaneous collection of poems, that ever appeared in
Great-Britain with any reputation, is that published by Dryden: which
was afterwards continued by Tonson. There are many pieces of the highest
merit in this collection, by Dryden, Denham, Creech, Drayton, Garth,
Marvell, and many others; yet the compilers, it is evident, were not
always sufficiently scrupulous and cautious in their choice, as several
pieces are admitted, among the rest, which would otherwise utterly have
perished, and which had no other recommendation, than that they served
to swell the volume. Since this, many miscellanies have been published
both in Scotland and England: to enumerate which would be no less
tedious than useless. It will be sufficient to remark, that through want
of care or judgment in their respective editors, they are all forgotten
or neglected. From these the miscellany known by the name of Mr. Pope
perhaps ought to be excepted; tho' that, indeed, cannot properly be
styled a collection of poems by different hands, which is such a one as
we are speaking of at present, the greater part consisting of pieces by
Mr. Pope only. The best miscellany at this day extant in our language,
and the first complete one of the kind which we have seen, is that
lately published by R. Dodsley, which boasts the greatest names of the
present age among its contributors.

As to the poetical collection here exhibited to the public, we apprehend
it challenges no small degree of regard, as it was made under the
immediate inspection and conduct of several very ingenious gentlemen,
whose names it would do us the highest honour to mention; and as it
contains a variety not to be found even in the admirable collection last
spoken of; I mean the Intermixture of poems both Scotch and English. Nor
is this variety less agreeable than useful; as from it we have an
opportunity of forming a comparison and estimate of the taste and genius
of the two different nations, in their poetical compositions.

It will be necessary to take notice, that our chief care has been to
furnish out the following miscellany with those pieces, regard being
first had to real merit, which have laid unknown and unobserved from
their MANNER of publication; several of them having been printed by
themselves, and so perished as it were for want of bulk, and others lost
amid the rubbish of collections injudiciously made, and perhaps not
easily to be met with. Nor will it be improper to mention, that in order
to render our volume still more compleat, we have had the favour of some
original poems, written by a late member of the university of Aberdeen,
whose modesty would not permit us to prefix his name: one of which in
this edition is printed with many improvements, from a corrected copy.
And from these ingenious essays, the public may be enabled to form some
judgment beforehand of a poem of a nobler and more important nature,
which he is now preparing. Nor must we forget to return our public
thanks to this gentleman, for the service he has been to us, not only in
making this collection more excellent by his own contributions, but in
selecting such pieces of others as were suitable to our design.

It is hoped that the ancient Scottish poems (amongst which THE THISTLE
AND THE ROSE, and HARDYKNUTE are more particularly distinguished) will
make no disagreeable figure amongst those of modern date; and that they
will produce the same effect here, as Mr. Pope observes a moderate use
of old words may have in a poem; which, adds he, is like working old
abbey-stones into a modern building, and which I have sometimes seen
practised with good success.

Upon the whole, as we have been favoured with the best assistance in
compiling this volume, no further apology is necessary; and as the
approbation of the public has been already secured to these poems
separately, we hope they have no less reason to claim it, when thus
published together.




CONTENTS.

                                                                  Page

  The Thistle and the Rose, by W. Dunbar                            1

  Verses on the Death of Queen Caroline.
  By Mr. Shipley                                                   10

  The Genealogy of Christ, by Mr. Lowth                            13

  A Fragment, by Mr. Mallet                                        24

  The Eagle and Robin Red-Breast, a Fable, by
  Archibald Scott, written before the Year 1600.                   28

  Ode to Fancy, by Mr. Joseph Warton                               31

  Ode to Evening, by the same                                      37

  Ode to Evening, by Mr. Collins                                   39

  Isis, an Elegy, by Mr. Mason of Cambridge                        42

  The Triumph of Isis, by Mr. Thomas Warton
  of Oxford                                                        47

  A Love-Elegy, by Mr. Hammond                                     47

  The Tears of Scotland, 1746.                                     62

  An Elegy written in a country church-yard, by
  Mr. Grey                                                         65

  On the Death of Prince Frederic. Written at
  Paris, by David Lord Viscount Stormont                           70

  On the same, by Mr. James Clitherow of Oxford                    75

  Ode on the Approach of Summer, by a Gentleman
  formerly of the University of Aberdeen                           81

  A Pastoral in the manner of Spenser, from
  Theocritus, Idyll. 20. By the same                               94

  Inscribed on a beautiful Grotto near the Water                   96

  Love Elegy, by Mr. Smollet                                       97

  A Panegyric on Oxford Ale, by a Gentleman
  of Trinity College                                               99

  The Progress of Discontent, by the Same.                        105

  Ode to Arthur Onslow, Esq;                                      109

  Job, Chapter XXXIX. By a Gentleman of
  Oxford                                                          113

  Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson, by Mr.
  Collins                                                         116

  The Child-Birth, in the manner of Gay                           119

  On a Lady's presenting a Sprig of Myrtle to
  a Gentleman, by Mr. Hammond                                     125

  To a Young Lady with Fontenelle's Plurality
  of Worlds                                                       126

  Ode on the Fifth of December, by Mr.
  Christopher Smart                                               128

  Part of the Prologue to Sir David Lyndesay's
  Dream. Written in the Reign of King
  James V.                                                        129

  Hardyknute, a Fragment                                          132

  Ode. By Dr. Akenside, on Lyric Poetry                           147




A POEM IN HONOUR OF

MARGARET

DAUGHTER TO

HENRY VII. OF ENGLAND,

QUEEN TO

JAMES IV. KING OF SCOTS.

BY WILLIAM DUNBAR.


    The Thistle and the Rose,
      O'er flowers and herbage green,
    By Lady Nature chose,
      Brave King and lovely Queen.


                    I.

    When March with varying winds was overpast,
    And sweet April had with