his Cock-matches, and Horfe-races, projecting New-Market Allignations, Tippling with bis Brother Juftices of the Peace, managing Ele&tions, punishing the Interlopers upon Game, while his Lady lived as melancholy a Life at home, as if she had been confined to a Nunnery; with this improvement too of her Perfecution, That she had nothing to cont vérfe with, but an old, affected, malicious Aunt of Sir John, who continually entertain'd her with dull infipid Hiftories of the Heroes and Heroines of her Family.

Freeman. And how did fhe bear it?

Bellair. With a Patience hardly to be parallel'd. I know fome malicious People in the Neighbourhood talk strange things of a private intrigue between her and a certain Gentleman; with which they have fo effectually poffeffed the Knight, that this has occafion'd all the ill Blood between them tho' I can't imagine what pretence Sir John has to be Jealous; for why should a Man be Jealous, that never was capable of Love; or be concern'd to have that Property invaded, which he always flighted?

Freeman. As ill an Opinion as I have of the Fair Sex, yet I believe, their Miscarriages, generally speaking, are purely owing to the Men. A ftate must be troubled with Civil Diffentions at home, before any Foreigner will pretend to invade it; and there must be an ill understanding between the Wife and

the Husband, before a Gallant can Hope to fucceed in the Family.

Bellair. After all, if my Lady has actually trespass'd against Sir John's Honour, the Kt. has none to thank but himself; for let a Hufband, be never fo much the Superiour, and flatter himself never fo much with an imaginary pre-eminence, yet if he affects a defpotic fway, takes more upon him than the Laws allow him, and violates the Original Contract, 'tis as natural for Wives as for Subjects to Rebell.

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POEMS.

By GEORGE VILLIERS,

Late Duke of BUCKINGHA M.

LONDON:

Printed in the Year 1714.

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A Pindaric Poem on the Death of the Lord Fairfax, Father to the Dutchefs Dowager of Buckingham.

By George late Duke of Buckingham.

Nder this Stone does lie

One born for Victory;

Fairfar the Valiant, and the only

He,

Who e'er for that alone a Con

queror wou'd be:

Both Sexes Virtues were in him combin'd,
He had the Fierceness of the manliest Mind,
And yet the Meeknefs too of Woman-kind:
He never knew what Envy was, nor Hate;
His Soul was fill'd with Truth and Honesty,
And with another thing quite out of Date,
Call'd Modesty.

II.

He ne'er feem'd Impudent, but ir, the place Where Impudence it felf dares feldom fhew it's Face;

Had any Strangers spy'd him in the Room
With fome of those he had overcome,

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And