The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	The Ladies Defence: Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd
	To All Ingenious Ladies	3
	The Preface to the Reader	11
	The Ladies Defence: Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson
	Poems on Several Occasions	15
	To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty	43
	Preface	44
	On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester	47
	On the Vanities of this Life	59
	To Almystrea	66
	To Clorissa	67
	To Mr. Dryden, on his excellent Translation of Virgil	70
	Song	73
	To Eugenia	74
	Song: To Lerinda	76
	Song	76
	The Wish	77
	The Elevation	78
	Friendship	79
	The Happy Man	79
	A Dialogue between Alexis and Astrea	80
	To the Ladies	83
	To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty	84
	The Resolution	88
	A Pindarick Ode	112
	Icarus	114
	Song	116
	A Dialogue between Virgil and Maevius	118
	To the Learn'd and Ingenious Dr. Musgrave of Exeter	120
	The Observation	124
	Solitude	126
	On the Death of my Honoured Mother Mrs. Lee	129
	On the Death of my dear Daughter Eliza Maria Chudleigh	135
	The Offering	140
	The Resolve	144
	Song	145
	The Inquiry	146
	The Choice	152
	The Fifteenth Psalm Paraphras'd	155
	One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead Paraphras'd	157
	To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty	161
	The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd
	The Preface	169
	The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd	177
	Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse
	To Her Royal Highness The Princess Sophia	245
	To The Reader	246
	Of Knowledge	251
	Of Pride	261
	Of Humility	268
	Of Life	274
	Of Death	276
	Of Fear	281
	Of Grief	286
	Of Riches	296
	Of Self-Love	301
	Of Justice	305
	Of Anger	311
	Of Calumny	332
	Of Friendship	343
	Of Love	352
	Of Avarice	363
	Of Solitude	385
	Index of First Lines of Poems	391