"Before my wondering sense new phantoms dance, / And stamp their horrid shapes upon my brain."
Melpomene: Or, The Regions of Terror and Pity. An Ode.
See <u>Melpomene, or The Regions of Terror and Pity. An Ode.</u> (London: [s.n.], 1757) &lt;<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007657872">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt;. I count 9 entries for this title in the ESTC (1757, 1758, 1771, 1777).<br>
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The poem was printed with <u>Cleone. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by R. Dodsley</u> (London, 1758) &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315543760&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; and collected in <u>Trifles: viz. Cleone. A Tragedy. Melpomene: or, the Regions of Terror and Pity. A Poem. Agriculture. A Poem. The Oeconomy of Human Life. Vol. II. Written by R. Dodsley.</u> (London: J. Dodsley, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW116639865&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Dodsley's <u>Trifles</u> were first published in 1745 in one volume. James Dodsley seems to have  issued so-called "second" editions in 1771 and in 1777. The second volume of <u>Trifles</u> contains works written after 1745.<br>
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I have taken my text from the edition of <u>Trifles</u>, issued in 1777 &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW125014867&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; and checked metaphors against the 1757 printing available through the Hathi Trust. 