"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, while the Judge gives diff'rent Journeys / To Country Counsel, and Attornies; / He on the Bench in quiet sits, / Deciding, as They bring the Writs." 
Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind.
Searching in ECCO and ESTC (1718, 1720, 1721, 1725, 1728, 1733, 1734, 1741, 1751, 1754, 1755, 1759, 1768, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1784, 1790, 1798). See also Prior's <u>Poetical Works</u> (1777, 1779, 1784, 1798). Found in <u>A Collection of English Poets</u>, vol. 10 (1776), <u>The British Poets</u>, vol. 18 (1778), and <u>The Works of the English Poets</u> (1779, 1790). I haven't yet been able to confirm that <u>Alma</u> is in 2 vol. <u>Poems</u> of 1755, 1766, 1767 (texts not available in ECCO).<br>
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See Prior's <u>Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos</u> published in <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> (London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Barber, 1718). &lt<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311476283&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Searching text from <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1905). Reading <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. 2nd Edition (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1971).