PREFACE.

THIS edition of Mr. THOMSON's works was defigned by him, and must be confidered by the reader, as a collection of fuch of his works as he thought worth preferving, corrected and amended. If therefore any detached poems of his have appeared in other collections, or are to be found in manuscript in private hands, they are fuch as his judgment rejected; and the publication of them in any future edition of his works, or otherwife, would be contrary to his will, and prejudicial to his memory.

It is hoped, that all his writings will appear much more advantageously in their prefent form, than they did in their first publication.

BRITANNIA, a Poem.

Antient and Modern ITALY compared:
Being the first Part of LIBERTY, a
Poem.

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GREECE:

GREECE: Being the fecond Part of

LIBERTY, a Poem.

BRITAIN Being the third Part of

LIBERTY, a Poem.

A POEM to the Memory of the Rt.

Hon. the Lord Talbot, late Chan-

cellor of Great Britain.

The CASTLE of INDOLENCE: An Al-

legorical Poem. In two Canto's.

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The First.

The Second.

VERSES Occafioned by the Death of

Mr. AIKMAN, a particular friend of
the Author's.

ODE.

EPITAPH on Mifs STANLEY.

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To the Rev, Mr. MURDOCH, Rector

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of Straddishal, in Suffolk.

A PARAPHRASE on the latter part of
the fixth Chapter of St. Matthew.
SONG. One Day the God of fond
Defire.

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SONG.