"Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate / The dark decrees and will of fate, / And dreams beneath the spreading beach / Inspire, and docile fancy teach; / While, soft as breezy breath of wind, / Impulses rustle thro' the mind."
The Spleen. An Epistle Inscribed to his particular Friend Mr. C. J.
7 copies in ECCO. Earliest printings from 1737 and 1738. I find two "second" editions: from 1738 and 1754 and a Dublin edition from 1743.<br>
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Text from C-H/HDIS transcription of Matthew Green, <u>The Spleen. An Epistle Inscribed to his particular Friend Mr. C. J.</u>, 2nd edition (London: Printed for A. Dodd, 1754). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111505037&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T69629">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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See also the first edition (London: A Dodd, 1737) in ECCO &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3307786912&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link</a>&gt; or third edition, corrected (London: A. Dodd, 1738) in Google Books &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=h1AJAAAAQAAJ">Link</a>&gt;