Poetical recreations consisting of original poems, songs, odes, &c. with several new translations : in two parts / part I, occasionally written by Mrs. Jane Barker, part II, by several gentlemen of the universities, and others.

THE Lover's Will.

LET me not sigh my last, before I breathe (Great Love) some Legacies; I here bequeathe Mine Eyes to Argus, if mine Eyes can see; If they be blind, then Love I give them thee; My Tongue to Fame, t' Embassadors mine Ears, And unto Women, or the Sea, my Tears.

My Constancy I to the Planets give, My Truth to them who at the Court do live; My Silence t' any who abroad have been, My Money to a Capuchin; My Modesty I give to Souldiers bare, And all my Patience let the Gamesters share.

I give my Reputation unto those Which were my Friends; my Industry to Fo••s;

To School-men I bequeath my Doubtfulness, My Sickness to Physicians or Excess; To Nature all that I in Rhime have writ, And to my Company I leave my Wit.

To him for whom the Passing-bell next tolls, I g••ve my Physick-Books; my Written Rolls Of Moral Counsels I to Bedlam give, My Brazen Medals unto them which live In want of Bread; To them which pass among All Foreigners, I leave my English Tongue.

Thou Love taught'st me, by making me adore That charming Maid, whose Twenty Servants more, To give to those who had too much before; Or else by loving where no Love receiv'd cou'd be, To give to such as have an incapacitie.