PARNELL

The following verses by Parnell are not included in any edition of his poems that I have seen. They are printed in Steele's *Miscellany* (12mo. 1714), p. 63., and in the second edition of the same *Miscellany* (12mo. 1727), p. 51., with Parnell's name, and, what is more, on both occasions among other poems by the same author. TO A YOUNG LADY *On her Translation of the Story of Phoebus and Daphne, from Ovid.* In Phoebus, Wit (as Ovid said) Enchanting Beauty woo'd; In Daphne beauty coily fled, While vainly Wit pursu'd. But when you trace what Ovid writ, A diff'rent turn we view; Beauty no longer…