<5o Miscellaneous Poems.IV.

Melting our Souls thus into one,

Swift Joys our Wishes did out-run :Then launch’d in rolling Seas of Bliss,We bid the World adieu;

Swearing by ev’ry charming Kiss,

To be for ever true.

The Miller’s Tale from CHAUCER.Inscribed to N. Rowe, Esq ;

By Mr. SA MU E L €0 B B,Late of 'Trinity College in Cambridge. * *

The ARGUMENT.

NICHOLAS, a Scholar of Oxford, praBifith with ■ALISON, the Carpenters Wife of Ofney, to deceiveher Husband ; but in the End is rewas'ded accordingly .

W Hilom in Oxford an old Chuff did dwell,.

A Carpenter by Trade, as Stories tell jWlio by his Craft had heap’d up many a Hoard,

And furnisli’d Strangers both with Bed and Board.

With him a Scholar lodg’d, of slender Means,

But notable for Sciences and Sense,

Yet, tho’ he took Degrees in Arts, his MindWas mostly to Astrology inclin’d :

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* Mr. Cobb died in the Tear 1713, and was interredin th Cloyster of Christ-Church Hospital, London.