"When gentle Reason rules thy Breast; / The Sun upon the calmest Sea / Appears not half so bright as Thee."
The Lady's Looking-Glass [from Poetic Miscellanies: The Fifth Part]
Over 30 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1704, 1708, 1713, 1715, 1716, 1719, 1721, 1727, 1728, 1733, 1741, 1745, 1746, 1751, 1754, 1763, 1768, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1790, 1796, 1798, 1800). [Published in Tonson's miscellany; collected in <u>The Medley</u> (1715), <u>The Poetical Preceptor</u>  and other anthologies, included in <u>The Works of the English Poets</u>]<br>
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See <u>Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part. Containing a Collection of Original Poems, With Several New Translations. By the Most Eminent Hands.</u> (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane, 1704). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111859875&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, eds. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).