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You may copy it, + give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project + Gutenberg License <a href="#pglicense" class="tei tei-ref">included with this + eBook</a> or online at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license" class="tei tei-xref">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a></p></div><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">Title: The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 + +Author: Edward Young + +Release Date: July 2006 [Ebook #18827] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDWARD YOUNG, VOLUME 2*** +</pre></div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-titlePage"> +<span class="tei tei-docTitle"> + +<span class="tei tei-titlePart" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Poetical Works of Edward Young</span></span> +<span class="tei tei-titlePart" style="text-align: center"><br />Volume II.<br /><br /></span> +</span> + +<span class="tei tei-docImprint" style="text-align: center">Boston<br /> +Little, Brown and Company<br /><br /> +Cambridge<br /> +Allen and Farnham, Printers.<br /><br /> +</span> +<span class="tei tei-docDate" style="text-align: center">1859</span> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> +<ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc1">The Last Day. In Three Books</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc3">Book I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc5">Book II.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc7">Book III.</a></li><li><a href="#toc9">The Force of Religion; or, Vanquished Love.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc11">Book I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc13">Book II.</a></li><li><a href="#toc15">Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc17">Preface.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc19">Satire I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc21">Satire II</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc23">Satire III.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc25">Satire IV.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc27">Satire V. On Women</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc29">Satire VI. On Women</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc31">Satire VII.</a></li><li><a href="#toc33">Ocean: an Ode, occasioned by his Majesty's royal Encouragement of the Sea Service. To which is prefixed an Ode to the King; and A Discourse on Ode</a></li><li><a href="#toc35">A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job.</a></li><li><a href="#toc37">On Michael Angelo's Famous Piece of the Crucifixion;</a></li><li><a href="#toc39">To Mr. Addison, on the Tragedy of Cato</a></li><li><a href="#toc41">Historical Epilogue to the Brothers. A Tragedy</a></li><li><a href="#toc43">Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk, in Westminster Abbey, 1740</a></li><li><a href="#toc45">Epitaph at Welwyn, Hertfordshire.</a></li><li><a href="#toc47">A Letter to Mr. Tickell, occasioned by the Death of the Right Hon. Joseph Addison</a></li><li><a href="#toc49">Reflections on the Public Situation of the Kingdom</a></li><li><a href="#toc51">Resignation. In Two Parts.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc53">Part I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc55">Part II.</a></li><li><a href="#toc57">On the Late Queen's Death, +And His Majesty's Accession to the Throne</a></li><li><a href="#toc59">The Instalment.</a></li><li><a href="#toc61">And Epistle to the Right Hon. George Lord Lansdowne.</a></li><li><a href="#toc63">Two Epistles to Mr. Pope</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc65">Epistle I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc67">Epistle II.</a></li><li><a href="#toc69">An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.</a></li><li><a href="#toc71">The Old Man's Relapse.</a></li><li><a href="#toc73">Verses sent by Lord Melcombe to Dr. Young</a></li></ul> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page001">[pg 001]</span><a name="Pg001" id="Pg001" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc1" id="toc1"></a><a name="pdf2" id="pdf2"></a> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Last Day.</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">In Three Books.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%"> +Venit summa dies.—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span> +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc3" id="toc3"></a><a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Book I.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Ipse pater, media nimborum in nocte, corusca</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Fulmina molitur dextra. Quo maxima motu</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Terra tremit: fugêre feræ! et mortalia corda</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Per gentes humilis stravit pavor.</span></div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While others sing the fortune of the great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Empire and arms, and all the pomp of state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With Britain's hero<a id="noteref_1" name="noteref_1" href="#note_1"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">1</span></span></a> set their souls on fire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And grow immortal as his deeds inspire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I draw a deeper scene: a scene that yields</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A louder trumpet, and more dreadful fields;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world alarm'd, both earth and heaven o'erthrown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gasping nature's last tremendous groan;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Death's ancient sceptre broke, the teeming tomb,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The righteous Judge, and man's eternal doom.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Twixt joy and pain I view the bold design,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page002">[pg 002]</span><a name="Pg002" id="Pg002" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ask my anxious heart, if it be mine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whatever great or dreadful has been done</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Within the sight of conscious stars or sun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is far beneath my daring: I look down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On all the splendours of the British crown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This globe is for my verse a narrow bound;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Attend me, all the glorious worlds around!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! all ye angels, howsoe'er disjoin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of every various order, place, and kind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hear, and assist, a feeble mortal's lays;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis your Eternal King I strive to praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But chiefly thou, great Ruler! Lord of all!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Before whose throne archangels prostrate fall;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If at thy nod, from discord, and from night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sprang beauty, and yon sparkling worlds of light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Exalt e'en me; all inward tumults quell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The clouds and darkness of my mind dispel;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To my great subject thou my breast inspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And raise my lab'ring soul with equal fire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Man, bear thy brow aloft, view every grace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In God's great offspring, beauteous nature's face:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See spring's gay bloom; see golden autumn's store;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See how earth smiles, and hear old ocean roar.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Leviathans but heave their cumbrous mail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It makes a tide, and wind-bound navies sail.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, forests rise, the mountains awful pride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, rivers measure climes, and worlds divide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There, valleys fraught with gold's resplendent seeds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hold kings, and kingdoms' fortunes, in their beds:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There, to the skies, aspiring hills ascend,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page003">[pg 003]</span><a name="Pg003" id="Pg003" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And into distant lands their shades extend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">View cities, armies, fleets; of fleets the pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See Europe's law, in Albion's channel ride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">View the whole earth's vast landscape unconfin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or view in Britain all her glories join'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then let the firmament thy wonder raise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twill raise thy wonder, but transcend thy praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How far from east to west? the lab'ring eye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can scarce the distant azure bounds descry:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wide theatre! where tempests play at large,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And God's right hand can all its wrath discharge.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mark how those radiant lamps inflame the pole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Call forth the seasons, and the year control:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They shine thro' time, with an unalter'd ray:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See this grand period rise, and that decay:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So vast, this world's a grain; yet myriads grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With golden pomp, the throng'd ethereal space;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So bright, with such a wealth of glory stor'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twere sin in heathens not to have ador'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How great, how firm, how sacred, all appears!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How worthy an immortal round of years!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet all must drop, as autumn's sickliest grain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And earth and firmament be sought in vain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The tract forgot where constellations shone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or where the Stuarts fill'd an awful throne:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Time shall be slain, all nature be destroy'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor leave an atom in the mighty void.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sooner, or later, in some future date,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(A dreadful secret in the book of fate!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This hour, for aught all human wisdom knows,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page004">[pg 004]</span><a name="Pg004" id="Pg004" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or when ten thousand harvests more have rose;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When scenes are chang'd on this revolving earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Old empires fall, and give new empires birth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While other Bourbons rule in other lands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And (if man's sin forbids not) other Annes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While the still busy world is treading o'er</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The paths they trod five thousand years before,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thoughtless as those who now life's mazes run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of earth dissolv'd, or an extinguish'd sun;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Ye sublunary worlds, awake, awake!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye rulers of the nation, hear, and shake!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thick clouds of darkness shall arise on day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In sudden night all earth's dominions lay;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Eternal mountains, like their cedars, bend:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The valleys yawn, the troubled ocean roar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And break the bondage of his wonted shore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Darkness the circle of the sun invade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the strong echo bound from pole to pole.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When, lo, a mighty trump, one half conceal'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In clouds, one half to mortal eye reveal'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall pour a dreadful note; the piercing call</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall rattle in the centre of the ball;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' extended circuit of creation shake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The living die with fear, the dead awake.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Oh powerful blast! to which no equal sound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did e'er the frighted ear of nature wound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' rival clarions have been strain'd on high,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page005">[pg 005]</span><a name="Pg005" id="Pg005" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And kindled wars immortal thro' the sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' God's whole enginery discharg'd, and all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The rebel angels bellow'd in their fall.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Have angels sinn'd? and shall not man beware?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How shall a son of earth decline the snare?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not folded arms, and slackness of the mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can promise for the safety of mankind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">None are supinely good: thro' care and pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And various arts, the steep ascent we gain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This is the scene of combat, not of rest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man's is laborious happiness at best;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On this side death his dangers never cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His joys are joys of conquest, not of peace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If then, obsequious to the will of fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bending to the terms of human state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When guilty joys invite us to their arms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When beauty smiles, or grandeur spreads her charms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The conscious soul would this great scene display,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Call down th' immortal hosts in dread array,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The trumpet sound, the Christian banner spread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And raise from silent graves the trembling dead;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such deep impression would the picture make,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No power on earth her firm resolve could shake;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Engag'd with angels she would greatly stand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And look regardless down on sea and land;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not proffer'd worlds her ardour could restrain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And death might shake his threat'ning lance in vain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her certain conquest would endear the sight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And danger serve but to exalt delight.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page006">[pg 006]</span><a name="Pg006" id="Pg006" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Instructed thus to shun the fatal spring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whence flow the terrors of that day I sing;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More boldly we our labours may pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the dreadful image set to view.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The sparkling eye, the sleek and painted breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The burnish'd scale, curl'd train, and rising crest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All that is lovely in the noxious snake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Provokes our fear, and bids us flee the brake:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sting once drawn, his guiltless beauties rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In pleasing lustre, and detain our eyes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We view with joy, what once did horror move,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And strong aversion softens into love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Say then, my muse, whom dismal scenes delight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Frequent at tombs, and in the realms of night;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say, melancholy maid, if bold to dare</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The last extremes of terror and despair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh say, what change on earth, what heart in man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This blackest moment since the world began.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ah mournful turn! the blissful earth, who late</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At leisure on her axle roll'd in state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While thousand golden planets knew no rest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still onward in their circling journey prest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A grateful change of seasons some to bring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sweet vicissitude of fall and spring:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some thro' vast oceans to conduct the keel,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And some those watery worlds to sink, or swell:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Around her some their splendours to display,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gild her globe with tributary day:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This world so great, of joy the bright abode,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven's darling child, and fav'rite of her God,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page007">[pg 007]</span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now looks an exile from her father's care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deliver'd o'er to darkness and despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No sun in radiant glory shines on high;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No light, but from the terrors of the sky:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fall'n are her mountains, her fam'd rivers lost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all into a second chaos tost:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One universal ruin spreads abroad;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing is safe beneath the throne of God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Such, earth, thy fate: what then canst thou afford</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To comfort and support thy guilty lord?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man, haughty lord of all beneath the moon,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How must he bend his soul's ambition down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Prostrate, the reptile own, and disavow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His boasted stature, and assuming brow?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Claim kindred with the clay, and curse his form,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That speaks distinction from his sister worm?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What dreadful pangs the trembling heart invade?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lord, why dost thou forsake whom thou hast made?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who can sustain thy anger? who can stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beneath the terrors of thy lifted hand?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It flies the reach of thought; oh, save me, Power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of powers supreme, in that tremendous hour!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou who beneath the frown of fate hast stood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in thy dreadful agony sweat blood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou, who for me, thro' every throbbing vein,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hast felt the keenest edge of mortal pain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whom death led captive thro' the realms below,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And taught those horrid mysteries of woe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Defend me, O my God! Oh, save me, Power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of powers supreme, in that tremendous hour!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page008">[pg 008]</span><a name="Pg008" id="Pg008" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From east to west they fly, from pole to line,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Imploring shelter from the wrath divine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beg flames to wrap, or whelming seas to sweep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or rocks to yawn, compassionately deep;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Seas cast the monster forth to meet his doom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rocks but prison up for wrath to come.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So fares a traitor to an earthly crown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While death sits threat'ning in his prince's frown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His heart's dismay'd; and now his fears command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To change his native for a distant land:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Swift orders fly, the king's severe decree</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stands in the channel, and locks up the sea;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The port he seeks, obedient to her lord,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hurls back the rebel to his lifted sword.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But why this idle toil to paint that day?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This time elaborately thrown away?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Words all in vain pant after the distress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The height of eloquence would make it less;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heavens! how the good man trembles!—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And is there a last day? and must there come</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sure, a fix'd, inexorable doom?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ambition swell, and, thy proud sails to show,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Take all the winds that vanity can blow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wealth on a golden mountain blazing stand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And reach an India forth in either hand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Spread all thy purple clusters, tempting vine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thou, more dreaded foe, bright beauty, shine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shine all; in all your charms together rise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That all, in all your charms, I may despise;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page009">[pg 009]</span><a name="Pg009" id="Pg009" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While I mount upward on a strong desire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Borne, like Elijah, in a car of fire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In hopes of glory to be quite involv'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To smile at death! to long to be dissolv'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From our decays a pleasure to receive!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And kindle into transport at a grave!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What equals this? And shall the victor now</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Boast the proud laurels on his loaded brow?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Religion! Oh, thou cherub, heavenly bright!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh, joys unmix'd, and fathomless delight!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou, thou art all; nor find I in the whole</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Creation aught, but God and my own soul.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For ever, then, my soul, thy God adore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor let the brute creation praise him more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall things inanimate my conduct blame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And flush my conscious cheek with spreading shame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They all for him pursue, or quit, their end</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mountain flames their burning power suspend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In solid heaps th' unfrozen billows stand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To rest and silence aw'd by his command:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, the dire monsters that infest the flood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By nature dreadful, and athirst for blood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His will can calm, their savage tempers bind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And turn to mild protectors of mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did not the prophet this great truth maintain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In the deep chambers of the gloomy main;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When darkness round him all her horrors spread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the loud ocean bellow'd o'er his head?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When now the thunder roars, the lightning flies,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page010">[pg 010]</span><a name="Pg010" id="Pg010" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the warring winds tumultuous rise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When now the foaming surges, tost on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Disclose the sands beneath, and touch the sky;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When death draws near, the mariners aghast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Look back with terror on their actions past;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their courage sickens into deep dismay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their hearts, thro' fear and anguish, melt away;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor tears, nor prayers, the tempest can appease;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now they devote their treasure to the seas;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unload their shatter'd barque, tho' richly fraught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And think the hopes of life are cheaply bought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With gems and gold; but oh, the storm so high!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor gems nor gold the hopes of life can buy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The trembling prophet then, themselves to save,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They headlong plunge into the briny wave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Down he descends, and, booming o'er his head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The billows close; he's number'd with the dead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Hear, O ye just! attend, ye virtuous few!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the bright paths of piety pursue)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lo! the great Ruler of the world, from high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Looks smiling down with a propitious eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Covers his servant with his gracious hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bids tempestuous nature silent stand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Commands the peaceful waters to give place,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or kindly fold him in a soft embrace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He bridles in the monsters of the deep:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bridled monsters awful distance keep:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Forget their hunger, while they view their prey;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And guiltless gaze, and round the stranger play.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But still arise new wonders; nature's Lord</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page011">[pg 011]</span><a name="Pg011" id="Pg011" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sends forth into the deep his powerful word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And calls the great leviathan: the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Leviathan attends in all his state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Exults for joy, and, with a mighty bound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Makes the sea shake, and heaven and earth resound;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Blackens the waters with the rising sand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And drives vast billows to the distant land.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As yawns an earthquake, when imprison'd air</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Struggles for vent, and lays the centre bare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The whale expands his jaws' enormous size;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The prophet views the cavern with surprise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Measures his monstrous teeth, afar descried,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rolls his wond'ring eyes from side to side:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then takes possession of the spacious seat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sails secure within the dark retreat.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now is he pleas'd the northern blast to hear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hangs on liquid mountains, void of fear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or falls immers'd into the depths below,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where the dead silent waters never flow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To the foundation of the hills convey'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dwells in the shelving mountain's dreadful shade:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where plummet never reach'd, he draws his breath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And glides serenely thro' the paths of death.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Two wondrous days and nights thro' coral groves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' labyrinths of rocks and sands, he roves:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When the third morning with its level rays</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mountains gilds, and on the billows plays,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page012">[pg 012]</span><a name="Pg012" id="Pg012" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It sees the king of waters rise and pour</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His sacred guest uninjur'd on the shore:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A type of that great blessing, which the muse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In her next labour ardently pursues.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc5" id="toc5"></a><a name="pdf6" id="pdf6"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Book II.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Έκ γαιη έλπιξομεν ές Φάος έλθειν. Λειψαν άποιχομένων όπισω δέ Θεοι τελέθονται.</span></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Phocyl.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">——We hope that the departed will rise again from the +dust: after which, like the gods, they will be immortal.</span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now man awakes, and from his silent bed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where he has slept for ages, lifts his head;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shakes off the slumber of ten thousand years,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on the borders of new worlds appears.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whate'er the bold, the rash, adventure cost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In wide eternity I dare be lost.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The muse is wont in narrow bounds to sing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To teach the swain, or celebrate the king.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I grasp the whole, no more to parts confin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I lift my voice, and sing to humankind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I sing to men and angels; angels join,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While such the theme, their sacred songs with mine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Again the trumpet's intermitted sound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rolls the wide circuit of creation round,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A universal concourse to prepare</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page013">[pg 013]</span><a name="Pg013" id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all that ever breath'd the vital air:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In some wide field, which active whirlwinds sweep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Drive cities, forests, mountains, to the deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To smooth and lengthen out th' unbounded space,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And spread an area for all human race.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now monuments prove faithful to their trust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And render back their long committed dust.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now charnels rattle; scatter'd limbs, and all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The various bones, obsequious to the call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Self-mov'd, advance; the neck perhaps to meet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The distant head; the distant legs the feet.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dreadful to view, see thro' the dusky sky</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fragments of bodies in confusion fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To distant regions journeying, there to claim</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deserted members, and complete the frame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When the world bow'd to Rome's almighty sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rome bow'd to Pompey, and confess'd her lord.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet one day lost, this deity below</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Became the scorn and pity of his foe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His blood a traitor's sacrifice was made,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And smok'd indignant on a ruffian's blade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No trumpet's sound, no gasping army's yell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bid, with due horror, his great soul farewell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Obscure his fall! all welt'ring in his gore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His trunk was cast to perish on the shore!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While Julius frown'd the bloody monster dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who brought the world in his great rival's head.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This sever'd head and trunk shall join once more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' realms now rise between, and oceans roar.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The trumpet's sound each fragrant mote shall hear,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page014">[pg 014]</span><a name="Pg014" id="Pg014" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or fix'd in earth, or if afloat in air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Obey the signal wafted in the wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And not one sleeping atom lag behind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So swarming bees, that on a summer's day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In airy rings, and wild meanders play,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Charm'd with the brazen sound, their wand'rings end,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, gently circling, on a bough descend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The body thus renew'd, the conscious soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which has perhaps been flutt'ring near the pole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or midst the burning planets wond'ring stray'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or hover'd o'er where her pale corpse was laid;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or rather coasted on her final state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fear'd or wish'd for her appointed fate:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This soul, returning with a constant flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now weds for ever her immortal frame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Life, which ran down before, so high is wound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The springs maintain an everlasting round.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus a frail model of the work design'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">First takes a copy of the builder's mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Before the structure firm with lasting oak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And marble bowels of the solid rock,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Turns the strong arch, and bids the columns rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bear the lofty palace to the skies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The wrongs of time enabled to surpass,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With bars of adamant, and ribs of brass.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That ancient, sacred, and illustrious dome,<a id="noteref_2" name="noteref_2" href="#note_2"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">2</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where soon or late fair Albion's heroes come,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page015">[pg 015]</span><a name="Pg015" id="Pg015" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From camps, and courts, tho' great, or wise, or just,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To feed the worm, and moulder into dust;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That solemn mansion of the royal dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where passing slaves o'er sleeping monarchs tread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now populous o'erflows: a num'rous race</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of rising kings fill all th' extended space:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A life well spent, not the victorious sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awards the crown, and styles the greater lord.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor monuments alone, and burial-earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Labours with man to this his second birth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But where gay palaces in pomp arise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gilded theatres invade the skies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nations shall wake, whose unrespected bones</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Support the pride of their luxurious sons.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The most magnificent and costly dome</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is but an upper chamber to the tomb.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And human skulls the spacious ocean pave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All's full of man; and at this dreadful turn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The swarm shall issue, and the hive shall burn.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Not all at once, nor in like manner, rise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some lift with pain their slow, unwilling eyes:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shrink backward from the terror of the light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bless the grave, and call for lasting night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Others, whose long-attempted virtue stood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fix'd as a rock, and broke the rushing flood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose firm resolve, nor beauty could melt down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor raging tyrants from their posture frown;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page016">[pg 016]</span><a name="Pg016" id="Pg016" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such, in this day of horrors, shall be seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To face the thunders with a godlike mien;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The planets drop, their thoughts are fixt above;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The centre shakes, their hearts disdain to move;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An earth dissolving, and a heaven thrown wide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A yawning gulf, and fiends on every side,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Serene they view, impatient of delay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bless the dawn of everlasting day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Here, greatness prostrate falls; there, strength gives place;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, lazars smile; there, beauty hides her face.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Christians, and Jews, and Turks, and Pagans stand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A blended throng, one undistinguish'd band.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some who, perhaps, by mutual wounds expir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With zeal for their distinct persuasions fir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In mutual friendship their long slumber break,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hand in hand their Saviour's love partake.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But none are flush'd with brighter joy, or, warm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With juster confidence, enjoy the storm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than those, whose pious bounties, unconfin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have made them public fathers of mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In that illustrious rank, what shining light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With such distinguish'd glory fills my sight?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bend down, my grateful muse, that homage show,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which to such worthies thou art proud to owe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wickham! Fox! Chichley! hail, illustrious names,<a id="noteref_3" name="noteref_3" href="#note_3"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">3</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who to far distant times dispense your beams;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page017">[pg 017]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beneath your shades, and near your crystal springs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I first presum'd to touch the trembling strings.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All hail, thrice honour'd! 'Twas your great renown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To bless a people, and oblige a crown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And now you rise, eternally to shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Eternally to drink the rays divine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Indulgent God! Oh how shall mortal raise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His soul to due returns of grateful praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For bounty so profuse to humankind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy wondrous gift of an eternal mind?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall I, who, some few years ago, was less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than worm, or mite, or shadow can express,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Was nothing; shall I live, when every fire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every star shall languish and expire?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When earth's no more, shall I survive above,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thro' the radiant files of angels move?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, as before the throne of God I stand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See new worlds rolling from his spacious hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where our adventures shall perhaps be taught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As we now tell how Michael sung or fought?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All that has being in full concert join,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And celebrate the depths of love divine!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But oh! before this blissful state, before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' aspiring soul this wondrous height can soar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Judge, descending, thunders from afar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all mankind is summon'd to the bar.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This mighty scene I next presume to draw:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Attend, great Anna, with religious awe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Expect not here the known successful arts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To win attention, and command our hearts:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page018">[pg 018]</span><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fiction, be far away; let no machine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Descending here, no fabled god, be seen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Behold the God of gods indeed descend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And worlds unnumber'd his approach attend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Lo! the wide theatre, whose ample space</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Must entertain the whole of human race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At heaven's all-powerful edict is prepar'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fenc'd around with an immortal guard.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tribes, provinces, dominions, worlds, o'erflow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mighty plain, and deluge all below:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every age, and nation, pours along,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nimrod and Bourbon mingle in the throng:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Adam salutes his youngest son; no sign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all those ages, which their births disjoin.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How empty learning, and how vain is art,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But as it mends the life, and guides the heart!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What volumes have been swell'd, what time been spent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To fix a hero's birth-day, or descent!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What joy must it now yield, what rapture raise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To see the glorious race of ancient days!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To greet those worthies who perhaps have stood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Illustrious on record before the flood!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alas! a nearer care your soul demands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cæsar unnoted in your presence stands.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How vast the concourse! not in number more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The waves that break on the resounding shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The leaves that tremble in the shady grove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The lamps that gild the spangled vaults above:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those overwhelming armies, whose command</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page019">[pg 019]</span><a name="Pg019" id="Pg019" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Said to one empire, fall; another, stand:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose rear lay wrapt in night, while breaking dawn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rous'd the broad front, and call'd the battle on:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Great Xerxes' world in arms, proud Cannæ's field,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where Carthage taught victorious Rome to yield,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Another blow had broke the fates' decree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And earth had wanted her fourth monarchy,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Immortal Blenheim, fam'd Ramillia's host,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They all are here, and here they all are lost:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their millions swell to be discern'd in vain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lost as a billow in th' unbounded main.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This echoing voice now rends the yielding air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For judgment, judgment, sons of men, prepare!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth shakes anew; I hear her groans profound;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hell through all her trembling realms resound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whoe'er thou art, thou greatest power of earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Blest with most equal planets at thy birth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose valour drew the most successful sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Most realms united in one common lord;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, on the day of triumph, saidst, Be thine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The skies, Jehovah, all this world is mine:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dare not to lift thine eye—Alas! my muse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How art thou lost! what numbers canst thou choose?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A sudden blush inflames the waving sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And now the crimson curtains open fly;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lo! far within, and far above all height,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page020">[pg 020]</span><a name="Pg020" id="Pg020" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where heaven's great Sov'reign reigns in worlds of light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whence nature he informs, and with one ray</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shot from his eye, does all her works survey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Creates, supports, confounds! Where time, and place,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Matter, and form, and fortune, life, and grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wait humbly at the footstool of their God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And move obedient at his awful nod;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whence he beholds us vagrant emmets crawl</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At random on this air-suspended ball</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Speck of creation): if he pour one breath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bubble breaks, and 'tis eternal death.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thence issuing I behold (but mortal sight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sustains not such a rushing sea of light!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I see, on an empyreal flying throne</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sublimely rais'd, heaven's everlasting Son;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Crown'd with that majesty which form'd the world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the grand rebel flaming downward hurl'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Virtue, dominion, praise, omnipotence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Support the train of their triumphant prince.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A zone, beyond the thought of angels bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Around him, like the zodiac, winds its light.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Night shades the solemn arches of his brows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in his cheek the purple morning glows.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where'er serene, he turns propitious eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or we expect, or find, a paradise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But if resentment reddens their mild beams,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Eden kindles, and the world's in flames.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page021">[pg 021]</span><a name="Pg021" id="Pg021" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On one hand, knowledge shines in purest light;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On one, the sword of justice fiercely bright.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now bend the knee in sport, present the reed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now tell the scourg'd impostor he shall bleed!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus glorious thro' the courts of heav'n, the source</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of life and death eternal bends his course;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Loud thunders round him roll, and lightnings play;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' angelic host is rang'd in bright array:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some touch the string, some strike the sounding shell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And mingling voices in rich concert swell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Voices seraphic; blest with such a strain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could Satan hear, he were a god again.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Triumphant King of Glory! Soul of bliss!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What a stupendous turn of fate is this!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! whither art thou rais'd above the scorn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And indigence of him in Bethlem born;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A needless, helpless, unaccounted guest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And but a second to the fodder'd beast!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How chang'd from him, who, meekly prostrate laid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vouchsaf'd to wash the feet himself had made!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From him who was betray'd, forsook, denied,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wept, languish'd, pray'd, bled, thirsted, groan'd, and died;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hung pierc'd and bare, insulted by the foe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All heaven in tears above, earth unconcern'd below!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And was't enough to bid the sun retire?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why did not nature at thy groan expire?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page022">[pg 022]</span><a name="Pg022" id="Pg022" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I see, I hear, I feel, the pangs divine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world is vanish'd,—I am wholly thine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Mistaken Caiaphas! Ah! which blasphem'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou, or thy pris'ner? which shall be condemn'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Well might'st thou rend thy garments, well exclaim;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deep are the horrors of eternal flame!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But God is good! 'Tis wondrous all! Ev'n he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou gav'st to death, shame, torture, died for thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now the descending triumph stops its flight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From earth full twice a planetary height.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There all the clouds condens'd, two columns raise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Distinct with orient veins, and golden blaze.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One fix'd on earth, and one in sea, and round</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its ample foot the swelling billows sound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These an immeasurable arch support,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The grand tribunal of this awful court.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sheets of bright azure, from the purest sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stream from the crystal arch, and round the columns fly.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Death, wrapt in chains, low at the basis lies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on the point of his own arrow dies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Here high enthron'd th' eternal Judge is plac'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With all the grandeur of his godhead grac'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stars on his robes in beauteous order meet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the sun burns beneath his awful feet.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now an archangel eminently bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From off his silver staff of wondrous height,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unfurls the Christian flag, which waving flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shuts and opens more than half the skies:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page023">[pg 023]</span><a name="Pg023" id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The cross so strong a red, it sheds a stain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where'er it floats, on earth, and air, and main;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flushes the hill, and sets on fire the wood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And turns the deep-dy'd ocean, into blood.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Oh formidable glory! dreadful bright!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Refulgent torture to the guilty sight.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ah turn, unwary muse, nor dare reveal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What horrid thoughts with the polluted dwell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say not, (to make the sun shrink in his beam,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dare not affirm, they wish it all a dream;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With, or their souls may with their limbs decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or God be spoil'd of his eternal sway.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But rather, if thou know'st the means, unfold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How they with transport might the scene behold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ah how! but by repentance, by a mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Quick, and severe its own offence to find?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By tears, and groans, and never-ceasing care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the pious violence of prayer?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus then, with fervency till now unknown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I cast my heart before th' eternal throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In this great temple, which the skies surround,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For homage to its lord, a narrow bound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"O thou! whose balance does the mountains weigh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose will the wild tumultuous seas obey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose breath can turn these watery worlds to flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That flame to tempest, and that tempest tame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth's meanest son, all trembling, prostrate falls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on the boundless of thy goodness calls.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Oh! give the winds all past offence to sweep,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page024">[pg 024]</span><a name="Pg024" id="Pg024" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To scatter wide, or bury in the deep:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy power, my weakness, may I ever see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wholly dedicate my soul to thee:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reign o'er my will; my passions ebb and flow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At thy command, nor human motive know!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If anger boil, let anger be my praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sin the graceful indignation raise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My love be warm to succour the distress'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lift the burden from the soul oppress'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh may my understanding ever read</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This glorious volume, which thy wisdom made!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who decks the maiden spring with flow'ry pride?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who calls forth summer, like a sparkling bride?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who joys the mother autumn's bed to crown?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bids old winter lay her honours down?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not the great Ottoman, or greater Czar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not Europe's arbitress of peace and war.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May sea and land, and earth and heaven be join'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To bring th' eternal author to my mind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When oceans roar, or awful thunders roll,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May thoughts of thy dread vengeance shake my soul!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When earth's in bloom, or planets proudly shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Adore, my heart, the majesty divine!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Thro' every scene of life, or peace, or war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Plenty, or want, thy glory be my care!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shine we in arms? or sing beneath our vine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thine is the vintage, and the conquest thine:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy pleasure points the shaft, and bends the bow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The cluster blasts, or bids it brightly glow:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page025">[pg 025]</span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis thou that lead'st our powerful armies forth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And giv'st great Anne thy sceptre o'er the north.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Grant I may ever, at the morning ray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Open with prayer the consecrated day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tune thy great praise, and bid my soul arise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with the mounting sun ascend the skies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As that advances, let my zeal improve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And glow with ardour of consummate love;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor cease at eve, but with the setting sun</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My endless worship shall be still begun.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"And, oh! permit the gloom of solemn night</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To sacred thought may forcibly invite.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When this world's shut, and awful planets rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Call on our minds, and raise them to the skies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Compose our souls with a less dazzling sight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And show all nature in a milder light;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How every boisterous thought in calm subsides!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How the smooth'd spirit into goodness glides!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O how divine! to tread the milky way,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To the bright palace of the lord of day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His court admire, or for his favour sue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or leagues of friendship with his saints renew;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pleas'd to look down, and see the world asleep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While I long vigils to its founder keep!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Canst thou not shake the centre? Oh! control,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Subdue by force, the rebel in my soul:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou, who canst still the raging of the flood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Restrain the various tumults of my blood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Teach me, with equal firmness, to sustain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alluring pleasure, and assaulting pain.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page026">[pg 026]</span><a name="Pg026" id="Pg026" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O may I pant for thee in each desire!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with strong faith foment the holy fire!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stretch out my soul in hope, and grasp the prize,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which in eternity's deep bosom lies!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At the great day of recompense behold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Devoid of fear, the fatal book unfold!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then wafted upward to the blissful seat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From age to age, my grateful song repeat;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My light, my life, my God, my Saviour see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rival angels in the praise of thee."</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc7" id="toc7"></a><a name="pdf8" id="pdf8"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Book III.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur, affore tempus,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Quo mare, quo tellus, correptaque regia cæli</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Ardeat; et mundi moles operosa laboret.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Ovid. Met.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The book unfolding; the resplendent seat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of saints and angels; the tremendous fate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of guilty souls; the gloomy realms of woe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the horrors of the world below;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I next presume to sing: what yet remains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Demands my last, but most exalted strains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And let the muse or now affect the sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or in inglorious shades for ever lie.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She kindles, she's inflam'd so near the goal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She mounts, she gains upon the starry pole;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world grows less as she pursues her flight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the sun darkens to her distant sight.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page027">[pg 027]</span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven op'ning, all its sacred pomp displays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And overwhelms her with the rushing blaze!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The triumph rings! archangels shout around!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And echoing nature lengthens out the sound!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ten thousand trumpets now at once advance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now deepest silence lulls the vast expanse:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So deep the silence, and so strong the blast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As nature died, when she had groan'd her last.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor man, nor angel, moves; the Judge on high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Looks round, and with his glory fills the sky:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then on the fatal book his hand he lays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which high to view supporting seraphs raise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In solemn form the rituals are prepar'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The seal is broken, and a groan is heard.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thou, my soul, (oh fall to sudden pray'r,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And let the thought sink deep!) shalt thou be there?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">See on the left (for by the great command</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The throng divided falls on either hand);</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How weak, how pale, how haggard, how obscene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What more than death in ev'ry face and mien!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With what distress, and glarings of affright.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They shock the heart, and turn away the sight!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In gloomy orbs their trembling eye-balls roll,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tell the horrid secrets of the soul.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each gesture mourns, each look is black with care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ev'ry groan is loaden with despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reader, if guilty, spare the muse, and find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A truer image pictur'd in thy mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Shouldst thou behold thy brother, father, wife,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the soft companions of thy life,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page028">[pg 028]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose blended int'rests levell'd at one aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose mix'd desires sent up one common flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Divided far; thy wretched self alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cast on the left, of all whom thou hast known;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How would it wound! what millions wouldst thou give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For one more trial, one more day to live!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flung back in time an hour, a moment's space,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To grasp with eagerness the means of grace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Contend for mercy with a pious rage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in that moment to redeem an age?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Drive back the tide, suspend a storm in air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Arrest the sun!—but still of this despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Mark, on the right, how amiable a grace!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their Maker's image fresh in ev'ry face!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What purple bloom my ravish'd soul admires!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And their eyes sparkling with immortal fires!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Triumphant beauty! charms that rise above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This world, and in blest angels kindle love!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To the great Judge with holy pride they turn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dare behold th' Almighty's anger burn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its flash sustain, against its terror rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on the dread tribunal fix their eyes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are these the forms that moulder'd in the dust?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh the transcendent glory of the just!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet still some thin remains of fear and doubt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' infected brightness of their joy pollute.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus the chaste bridegroom, when the priest draws nigh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beholds his blessing with a trembling eye,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page029">[pg 029]</span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Feels doubtful passions throb in every vein,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in his cheeks are mingled joy and pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lest still some intervening chance should rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Leap forth at once, and snatch the golden prize;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inflame his woe, by bringing it so late,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stab him in the crisis of his fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Since Adam's family, from first to last,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now into one distinct survey is cast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Look round, vainglorious muse, and you whoe'er</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Devote yourselves to fame, and think her fair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Look round, and seek the lights of human race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose shining acts time's brightest annals grace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who founded sects; crowns conquer'd, or resign'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gave names to nations: or fam'd empires join'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who raised the vale, and laid the mountain low;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And taught obedient rivers where to flow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who with vast fleets, as with a mighty chain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could bind the madness of the roaring main:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All lost? all undistinguish'd? nowhere found?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How will this truth in Bourbon's palace sound?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That hour, on which the Almighty King on high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From all eternity has fix'd his eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether his right hand favour'd, or annoy'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Continu'd, alter'd, threaten'd, or destroy'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Southern or eastern sceptre downward hurl'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gave north or west dominion o'er the world;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The point of time, for which the world was built,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For which the blood of God himself was spilt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That dreadful moment is arriv'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Aloft, the seats of bliss their pomp display</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page030">[pg 030]</span><a name="Pg030" id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Brighter than brightness, this distinguish'd day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less glorious, when of old th' eternal Son</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From realms of night return'd with trophies won:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' heaven's high gates, when he triumphant rode,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shouting angels hail'd the victor God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Horrors, beneath, darkness in darkness, hell</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of hell, where torments behind torments dwell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A furnace formidable, deep, and wide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'erboiling with a mad sulphureous tide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Expands its jaws, most dreadful to survey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And roars outrageous for the destin'd prey.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sons of light scarce unappall'd look down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nearer press heaven's everlasting throne.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Such is the scene; and one short moment's space</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Concludes the hopes and fears of human race.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Proceed who dares!—I tremble as I write,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The whole creation swims before my sight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I see, I see, the Judge's frowning brow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say not, 'tis distant; I behold it now;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I faint, my tardy blood forgets to flow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My soul recoils at the stupendous woe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That woe, those pangs, which from the guilty breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In these, or words like these, shall be exprest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Who burst the barriers of my peaceful grave?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ah! cruel death, that would no longer save,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But grudg'd me e'en that narrow dark abode,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cast me out into the wrath of God;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where shrieks, the roaring flame, the rattling chain,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page031">[pg 031]</span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the dreadful eloquence of pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our only song; black fire's malignant light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sole refreshment of the blasted sight.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Must all those pow'rs, heaven gave me to supply</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My soul with pleasure, and bring in my joy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rise up in arms against me, join the foe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sense, reason, memory, increase my woe?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall my voice, ordain'd on hymns to dwell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Corrupt to groans, and blow the fires of hell?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh! must I look with terror on my gain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with existence only measure pain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What! no reprieve, no least indulgence given,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No beam of hope, from any point of heaven!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ah mercy! mercy! art thou dead above?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is love extinguish'd in the source of love?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Bold that I am, did heaven stoop down to hell?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' expiring Lord of life my ransom seal?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have I not been industrious to provoke?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From his embraces obstinately broke?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pursu'd and panted for his mortal hate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earn'd my destruction, labour'd out my fate?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dare I on extinguish'd love exclaim?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Take, take full vengeance, rouse the slack'ning flame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Just is my lot—but oh! must it transcend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The reach of time, despair a distant end?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With dreadful growth shoot forward, and arise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where thought can't follow, and bold fancy dies?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Never! where falls the soul at that dread sound?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page032">[pg 032]</span><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Down an abyss how dark, and how profound?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Down, down, (I still am falling, horrid pain!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ten thousand thousand fathoms still remain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My plunge but still begun—And this for sin?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could I offend, if I had never been,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But still increas'd the senseless happy mass,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flow'd in the stream, or shiver'd in the grass?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Father of mercies! why from silent earth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Didst thou awake, and curse me into birth?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tear me from quiet, ravish me from night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And make a thankless present of thy light?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Push into being a reverse of thee,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And animate a clod with misery?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"The beasts are happy; they come forth, and keep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Short watch on earth, and then lie down to sleep.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pain is for man; and oh! how vast a pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For crimes, which made the Godhead bleed in vain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Annull'd his groans, as far as in them lay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And flung his agonies, and death, away!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As our dire punishment for ever strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our constitution too for ever young,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Curs'd with returns of vigour, still the same,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Powerful to bear, and satisfy the flame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still to be caught, and still to be pursu'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To perish still, and still to be renew'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"And this, my help! my God! at thy decree?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nature is chang'd, and hell should succour me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And canst thou then look down from perfect bliss,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And see me plunging in the dark abyss?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page033">[pg 033]</span><a name="Pg033" id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Calling thee Father, in a sea of fire?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or pouring blasphemies at thy desire?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With mortals' anguish wilt thou raise thy name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And by my pangs omnipotence proclaim?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Thou, who canst toss the planets to and fro,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Contract not thy great vengeance to my woe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Crush worlds; in hotter flames fall'n angels lay;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On me Almighty wrath is cast away.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Call back thy thunders, Lord, hold in thy rage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor with a speck of wretchedness engage:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Forget me quite, nor stoop a worm to blame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But lose me in the greatness of thy name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou art all love, all mercy, all divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall I make these glories cease to shine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall sinful man grow great by his offence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And from its course turn back Omnipotence?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Forbid it! and oh! grant, great God, at least</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This one, this slender, almost no request;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When I have wept a thousand lives away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When torment is grown weary of its prey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When I have rav'd ten thousand years in fire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ten thousand thousand, let me then expire."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Deep anguish! but too late; the hopeless soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bound to the bottom of the burning pool,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though loth, and ever loud blaspheming, owns</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He's justly doom'd to pour eternal groans;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enclos'd with horrors, and transfix'd with pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rolling in vengeance, struggling with his chain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To talk to fiery tempests; to implore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The raging flame to give its burnings o'er;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page034">[pg 034]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To toss, to writhe, to pant beneath his load,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bear the weight of an offended God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The favour'd of their Judge, in triumph move</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To take possession of their thrones above;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Satan's accurs'd desertion to supply,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fill the vacant stations of the sky;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Again to kindle long-extinguish'd rays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with new lights dilate the heavenly blaze;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To crop the roses of immortal youth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And drink the fountain-head of sacred truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To swim in seas of bliss, to strike the string,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lift the voice to their Almighty King;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To lose eternity in grateful lays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fill heaven's wide circumference with praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But I attempt the wondrous height in vain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And leave unfinish'd the too lofty strain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What boldly I begin, let others end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My strength exhausted, fainting I descend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And choose a less, but no ignoble, theme,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dissolving elements, and worlds, in flame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The fatal period, the great hour, is come,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nature shrinks at her approaching doom;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Loud peals of thunder give the sign, and all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven's terrors in array surround the ball;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sharp lightnings with the meteor's blaze conspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, darted downward, set the world on fire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Black rising clouds the thicken'd ether choke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And spiry flames dart through the rolling smoke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With keen vibrations cut the sullen night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And strike the darken'd sky with dreadful light;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page035">[pg 035]</span><a name="Pg035" id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From heaven's four regions, with immortal force,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Angels drive on the wind's impetuous course,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">T' enrage the flame: It spreads, it soars on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Swells in the storm, and billows through the sky:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here winding pyramids of fire ascend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cities and deserts in one ruin blend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here blazing volumes wafted, overwhelm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The spacious face of a far distant realm;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There, undermin'd, down rush eternal hills,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The neighb'ring vales the vast destruction fills.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hear'st thou that dreadful crack? that sound which broke</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like peals of thunder, and the centre shook?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What wonders must that groan of nature tell?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Olympus there, and mightier Atlas, fell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which seem'd above the reach of fate to stand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A tow'ring monument of God's right hand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now dust and smoke, whose brow, so lately, spread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er shelter'd countries its diffusive shade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Show me that celebrated spot, where all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The various rulers of the sever'd ball</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have humbly sought wealth, honour, and redress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That land which heaven seem'd diligent to bless,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Once call'd Britannia: can her glories end?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And can't surrounding seas her realms defend?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alas! in flames behold surrounding seas!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like oil, their waters but augment the blaze.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some angel say, where ran proud Asia's bound?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or where with fruits was fair Europa crown'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where stretch'd waste Lybia? Where did India's shore</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page036">[pg 036]</span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sparkle in diamonds, and her golden ore?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each lost in each, their mingling kingdoms glow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all dissolv'd, one fiery deluge flow:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus earth's contending monarchies are join'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And a full period of ambition find.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And now whate'er or swims, or walks, or flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inhabitants of sea, or earth, or skies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All on whom Adam's wisdom fix'd a name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All plunge, and perish in the conquering flame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This globe alone would but defraud the fire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Starve its devouring rage: the flakes aspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And catch the clouds, and make the heavens their prey;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sun, the moon, the stars, all melt away;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All, all is lost; no monument, no sign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where once so proudly blaz'd the gay machine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So bubbles on the foaming stream expire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So sparks that scatter from the kindling fire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The devastations of one dreadful hour</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The great Creator's six days' work devour.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A mighty, mighty ruin! yet one soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has more to boast, and far outweighs the whole</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Exalted in superior excellence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Casts down to nothing, such a vast expense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have you not seen th' eternal mountains nod,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An earth dissolving, a descending God?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What strange surprises through all nature ran?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For whom these revolutions, but for man?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For him, Omnipotence new measures takes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For him, through all eternity, awakes;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page037">[pg 037]</span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pours on him gifts sufficient to supply</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven's loss, and with fresh glories fill the sky.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Think deeply then, O man, how great thou art;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pay thyself homage with a trembling heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What angels guard, no longer dare neglect,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Slighting thyself, affront not God's respect.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enter the sacred temple of thy breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gaze, and wander there, a ravish'd guest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gaze on those hidden treasures thou shalt find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wander through all the glories of thy mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of perfect knowledge, see, the dawning light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Foretells a noon most exquisitely bright!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, springs of endless joy are breaking forth!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There, buds the promise of celestial worth!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Worth, which must ripen in a happier clime,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And brighter sun, beyond the bounds of time.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou, minor, canst not guess thy vast estate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What stores, on foreign coasts, thy landing wait:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lose not thy claim, let virtue's path be trod;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus glad all heaven, and please that bounteous God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, to light thee to pleasures, hung on high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yon radiant orb, proud regent of the sky:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That service done, its beams shall fade away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And God shine forth in one eternal day.</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page038">[pg 038]</span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc9" id="toc9"></a><a name="pdf10" id="pdf10"></a> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Force of Religion; or, Vanquished Love.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc11" id="toc11"></a><a name="pdf12" id="pdf12"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Book I.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">——Ad cœlum ardentia lumina tollens,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lumina; nam teneras arcebant vincula palmas.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From lofty themes, from thoughts that soar'd on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And open'd wondrous scenes above the sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My muse descend: indulge my fond desire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With softer thoughts my melting soul inspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And smooth my numbers to a female's praise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A partial world will listen to my lays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While Anna reigns, and sets a female name</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hear, ye fair daughters of this happy land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose radiant eyes the vanquish'd world command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Virtue is beauty: but when charms of mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With elegance of outward form are join'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When youth makes such bright objects still more bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fortune sets them in the strongest light;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis all of heaven that we below may view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all, but adoration, is your due.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page039">[pg 039]</span><a name="Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fam'd female virtue did this isle adorn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ere Ormond, or her glorious queen, was born:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When now Maria's powerful arms prevail'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And haughty Dudley's bold ambition fail'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The beauteous daughter of great Suffolk's race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In blooming youth adorn'd with every grace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who gain'd a crown by treason not her own,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And innocently fill'd another's throne;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hurl'd from the summit of imperial state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With equal mind sustain'd the stroke of fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But how will Guilford, her far dearer part,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With manly reason fortify his heart?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At once she longs, and is afraid, to know:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now swift she moves, and now advances slow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To find her lord; and, finding, passes by,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Silent with fear, nor dares she meet his eye;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lest that, unask'd, in speechless grief, disclose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mournful secret of his inward woes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus, after sickness, doubtful of her face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The melancholy virgin shuns the glass.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At length, with troubled thought, but look serene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sorrow soften'd by her heavenly mien,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She clasps her lord, brave, beautiful, and young,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While tender accents melt upon her tongue;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gentle, and sweet, as vernal zephyr blows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fanning the lily, or the blooming rose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Grieve not, my lord; a crown indeed is lost;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What far outshines a crown, we still may boast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A mind compos'd; a mind that can disdain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A fruitless sorrow for a loss so vain.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page040">[pg 040]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing is loss that virtue can improve</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To wealth eternal; and return above;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above, where no distinction shall be known</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twixt him whom storms have shaken from a throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And him, who, basking in the smiles of fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shone forth in all the splendour of the great:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor can I find the diff'rence here below;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I lately was a queen; I still am so,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While Guilford's wife: thee rather I obey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than o'er mankind extend imperial sway.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When we lie down in some obscure retreat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Incens'd Maria may her rage forget;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And I to death my duty will improve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what you miss in empire, add in love—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your godlike soul is open'd in your look,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And I have faintly your great meaning spoke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For this alone I'm pleas'd I wore the crown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To find with what content we lay it down.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heroes may win, but 't is a heavenly race</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can quit a throne with a becoming grace."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus spoke the fairest of her sex, and cheer'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her drooping lord; whose boding bosom fear'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A darker cloud of ills would burst, and shed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Severer vengeance on her guiltless head:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Too just, alas, the terrors which he felt!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For, lo! a guard!—Forgive him, if he melt—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How sharp her pangs, when sever'd from his side,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The most sincerely lov'd, and loving bride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In space confin'd, the muse forbears to tell;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page041">[pg 041]</span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deep was her anguish, but she bore it well.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His pain was equal, but his virtue less;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He thought in grief there could be no excess.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pensive he sat, o'ercast with gloomy care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And often fondly clasp'd his absent fair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, silent, wander'd thro' his rooms of state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sicken'd at the pomp, and tax'd his fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which thus adorn'd, in all her shining store,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A splendid wretch, magnificently poor.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now on the bridal-bed his eyes were cast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And anguish fed on his enjoyments past;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each recollected pleasure made him smart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every transport stabb'd him to the heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That happy moon, which summon'd to delight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That moon which shone on his dear nuptial night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which saw him fold her yet untasted charms</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Denied to princes) in his longing arms;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now sees the transient blessing fleet away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Empire and love! the vision of a day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus, in the British clime, a summer-storm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will oft the smiling face of heaven deform;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The winds with violence at once descend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sweep flowers and fruits, and make the forest bend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sudden winter, while the sun is near,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'ercomes the season, and inverts the year.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But whither is the captive borne away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The beauteous captive, from the cheerful day?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The scene is chang'd indeed; before her eyes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ill boding looks and unknown horrors rise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For pomp and splendour, for her guard and crown,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page042">[pg 042]</span><a name="Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A gloomy dungeon, and a keeper's frown:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Black thoughts, each morn, invade the lover's breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each night, a ruffian locks the queen to rest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ah mournful change, if judg'd by vulgar minds!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But Suffolk's daughter its advantage finds.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Religion's force divine is best display'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In deep desertion of all human aid:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To succour in extremes, is her delight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cheer the heart, when terror strikes the sight.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We, disbelieving our own senses, gaze,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wonder what a mortal's heart can raise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To triumph o'er misfortunes, smile in grief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And comfort those who come to bring relief:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We gaze; and as we gaze, wealth, fame, decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the world's vain glories fade away.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Against her cares she rais'd a dauntless mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with an ardent heart, but most resign'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deep in the dreadful gloom, with pious heat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Amid the silence of her dark retreat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Address'd her God,—"Almighty power divine!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis thine to raise, and to depress, is thine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With honour to light up the name unknown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or to put out the lustre of a throne.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In my short span both fortunes I have prov'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And though with ill frail nature will be mov'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I'll bear it well: (O strengthen me to bear!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And if my piety may claim thy care;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If I remember'd, in youth's giddy heat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tumult of a court, a future state;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page043">[pg 043]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O favour, when thy mercy I implore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For one who never guilty sceptre bore!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twas I receiv'd the crown; my lord is free;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If it must fall, let vengeance fall on me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let him survive, his country's name to raise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in a guilty land to speak thy praise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O may th' indulgence of a father's love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pour'd forth on me, be doubled from above!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If these are safe, I'll think my prayers succeed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bless thy tender mercies, whilst I bleed."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Twas now the mournful eve before that day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In which the queen to her full wrath gave way;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' rigid justice, rush'd into offence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And drank in zeal the blood of innocence:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sun went down in clouds, and seem'd to mourn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sad necessity of his return;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The hollow wind, and melancholy rain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or did, or was imagin'd to, complain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The tapers cast an inauspicious light;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stars there were none, and doubly dark the night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sweet innocence in chains can take her rest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Soft slumber gently creeping through her breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She sinks; and in her sleep is reinthron'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mock'd by a gaudy dream, and vainly crown'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She views her fleets and armies, seas and land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stretches wide her shadow of command:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With royal purple is her vision hung;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By phantom hosts are shouts of conquest rung;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Low at her feet the suppliant rival lies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our prisoner mourns her fate, and bids her rise.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page044">[pg 044]</span><a name="Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now level beams upon the waters play'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Glanc'd on the hills, and westward cast the shade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The busy trades in city had began</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To sound, and speak the painful life of man.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In tyrants' breasts the thoughts of vengeance rouse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the fond bridegroom turns him to his spouse.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At this first birth of light, while morning breaks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our spouseless bride, our widow'd wife, awakes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awakes, and smiles; nor night's imposture blames;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her real pomps were little more than dreams;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A short-liv'd blaze, a lightning quickly o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That died in birth, that shone, and were no more:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She turns her side, and soon resumes a state</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of mind, well suited to her alter'd fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Serene, though serious; when dread tidings come</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Ah wretched Guilford!) of her instant doom.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sun, hide thy beams; in clouds as black as night</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy face involve; be guiltless of the sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or haste more swiftly to the western main;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor let her blood the conscious daylight stain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Oh! how severe! to fall so new a bride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet blushing from the priest, in youthful pride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When time had just matur'd each perfect grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And open'd all the wonders of her face!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To leave her Guilford dead to all relief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fond of his woe, and obstinate in grief.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unhappy fair! whatever fancy drew,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Vain promis'd blessings,) vanish from her view;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No train of cheerful days, endearing nights,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No sweet domestic joys, and chaste delights;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page045">[pg 045]</span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pleasures that blossom e'en from doubts and fears;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bliss and rapture rising out of cares:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No little Guilford, with paternal grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lull'd on her knee, or smiling in her face;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, when her dearest father shall return,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From pouring tears on her untimely urn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Might comfort to his silver hairs impart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fill her place in his indulgent heart:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As where fruits fall, quick rising blossoms smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the bless'd Indian of his care beguile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In vain these various reasons jointly press,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To blacken death, and heighten her distress;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She, thro' th' encircling terrors darts her sight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To the bless'd regions of eternal light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fills her soul with peace: to weeping friends</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her father, and her lord, she recommends;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unmov'd herself: her foes her air survey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rage to see their malice thrown away.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She soars; now nought on earth detains her care——</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But Guilford; who still struggles for his share.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still will his form importunately rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Clog and retard her transport to the skies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As trembling flames now take a feeble flight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now catch the brand with a returning light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus her soul onward from the seats above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Falls fondly back, and kindles into love:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At length she conquers in the doubtful field;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That heaven she seeks will be her Guilford's shield.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now death is welcome; his approach is slow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis tedious longer to expect the blow.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page046">[pg 046]</span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh! mortals, short of sight, who think the past</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'erblown misfortune still shall prove the last:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alas! misfortunes travel in a train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And oft in life form one perpetual chain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fear buries fear, and ills on ills attend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till life and sorrow meet one common end.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">She thinks that she has nought but death to fear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And death is conquer'd. Worse than death is near.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her rigid trials are not yet complete;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The news arrives of her great father's fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She sees his hoary head, all white with age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A victim to th' offended monarch's rage.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How great the mercy, had she breath'd her last,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ere the dire sentence on her father past!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A fonder parent nature never knew;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And as his age increas'd, his fondness grew.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A parent's love ne'er better was bestow'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pious daughter in her heart o'erflow'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And can she from all weakness still refrain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And still the firmness of her soul maintain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Impossible! a sigh will force its way;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One patient tear her mortal birth betray;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She sighs and weeps! but so she weeps and sighs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As silent dews descend, and vapours rise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Celestial patience! how dost thou defeat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The foe's proud menace, and elude his hate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While passion takes his part, betrays our peace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To death and torture swells each slight disgrace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By not opposing, thou dost ills destroy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wear thy conquer'd sorrows into joy.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page047">[pg 047]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now she revolves within her anxious mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What woe still lingers in reserve behind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Griefs rise on griefs, and she can see no bound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While nature lasts, and can receive a wound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sword is drawn; the queen to rage inclin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By mercy, nor by piety, confin'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What mercy can the zealot's heart assuage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose piety itself converts to rage?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She thought, and sigh'd. And now the blood began</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To leave her beauteous cheek all cold and wan.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">New sorrow dimm'd the lustre of her eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on her cheek the fading roses die.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alas! should Guilford too—when now she's brought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To that dire view, that precipice of thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While there she trembling stands, nor dares look down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor can recede, till heaven's decrees are known;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cure of all ills, till now, her lord appears—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But not to cheer her heart, and dry her tears!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not now, as usual, like the rising day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To chase the shadows, and the damps away:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, like a gloomy storm, at once to sweep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And plunge her to the bottom of the deep.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Black were his robes, dejected was his air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His voice was frozen by his cold despair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Slow, like a ghost, he mov'd with solemn pace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A dying paleness sat upon his face.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Back she recoil'd, she smote her lovely breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her eyes the anguish of her heart confess'd;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page048">[pg 048]</span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Struck to the soul, she stagger'd with the wound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sunk, a breathless image, to the ground.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus the fair lily, when the sky's o'ercast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At first but shudders in the feeble blast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But when the winds and weighty rains descend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fair and upright stem is forc'd to bend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till broke at length, its snowy leaves are shed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And strew with dying sweets their native bed.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc13" id="toc13"></a><a name="pdf14" id="pdf14"></a> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Book II.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Hic pietatis honos? sic nos in sceptra reponis!</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her Guilford clasps her, beautiful in death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with a kiss recalls her fleeting breath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To tapers thus, which by a blast expire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A lighted taper, touch'd, restores the fire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She rear'd her swimming eye, and saw the light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Guilford too, or she had loath'd the sight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her father's death she bore, despis'd her own,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But now she must, she will, have leave to groan:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ah! Guilford, she began, and would have spoke;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But sobs rush'd in, and ev'ry accent broke:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reason itself, as gusts of passion blew,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Was ruffled in the tempest, and withdrew.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So the youth lost his image in the well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When tears upon the yielding surface fell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The scatter'd features slid into decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And spreading circles drove his face away.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page049">[pg 049]</span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To touch the soft affections, and control</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The manly temper of the bravest soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What with afflicted beauty can compare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And drops of love distilling from the fair?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It melts us down; our pains delight bestow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And we with fondness languish o'er our woe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This Guilford prov'd; and, with excess of pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And pleasure too, did to his bosom strain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The weeping fair: sunk deep in soft desire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Indulg'd his love, and nurs'd the raging fire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then tore himself away; and, standing wide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As fearing a relapse of fondness, cried,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With ill-dissembled grief; "My life, forbear!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You wound your Guilford with each cruel tear:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did you not chide my grief? repress your own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor want compassion for yourself alone:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have you beheld, how, from the distant main,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The thronging waves roll on, a num'rous train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And foam, and bellow, till they reach the shore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There burst their noisy pride, and are no more?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus the successive flows of human race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Chas'd by the coming, the preceding, chase;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They sound, and swell, their haughty heads they rear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then fall, and flatten, break, and disappear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Life is a forfeit we must shortly pay;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And where's the mighty lucre of a day?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why should you mourn my fate? 'tis most unkind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your own you bore with an unshaken mind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And which, can you imagine, was the dart</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page050">[pg 050]</span><a name="Pg050" id="Pg050" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That drank most blood, sunk deepest in my heart?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I cannot live without you; and my doom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I meet with joy, to share one common tomb.—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And are again your tears profusely spilt!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh! then, my kindness blackens to my guilt;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It foils itself, if it recall your pain;—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Life of my life, I beg you to refrain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The load which fate imposes, you increase;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And help Maria to destroy my peace."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But, oh! against himself his labour turn'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The more he comforted, the more she mourn'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Compassion swells our grief; words soft and kind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But soothe our weakness, and dissolve the mind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her sorrow flow'd in streams; nor hers alone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While that he blam'd, he yielded to his own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where are the smiles she wore, when she, so late,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hail'd him great partner of the regal state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When orient gems around her temples blaz'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bending nations on the glory gaz'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis now the queen's command, they both retreat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To weep with dignity, and mourn in state:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She forms the decent misery with joy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And loads with pomp the wretch she would destroy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A spacious hall is hung with black; all light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shut out, and noon-day darken'd into night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the mid-roof a lamp depends on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like a dim crescent in a clouded sky:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It sheds a quiv'ring melancholy gloom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which only shows the darkness of the room.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page051">[pg 051]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A shining axe is on the table laid;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A dreadful sight! and glitters through the shade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In this sad scene the lovers are confin'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A scene of terrors, to a guilty mind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A scene, that would have damp'd with rising cares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And quite extinguish'd every love but theirs.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What can they do? They fix their mournful eyes——</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then Guilford, thus abruptly; "I despise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An empire lost; I fling away the crown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Numbers have laid that bright delusion down;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But where's the Charles, or Dioclesian where,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could quit the blooming, wedded, weeping fair?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh! to dwell ever on thy lip! to stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In full possession of thy snowy hand!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, thro' th' unclouded crystal of thine eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The heavenly treasures of thy mind to spy!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till rapture reason happily destroys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And my soul wanders through immortal joys!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give me the world, and ask me, where's my bliss?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I clasp thee to my breast, and answer, this.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall the grave"—He groans, and can no more;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But all her charms in silence traces o'er;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her lip, her cheek, and eye, to wonder wrought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, wond'ring, sees, in sad presaging thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From that fair neck, that world of beauty fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And roll along the dust, a ghastly ball!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Oh! let those tremble, who are greatly bless'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For who, but Guilford, could be thus distress'd?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page052">[pg 052]</span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Come hither, all you happy, all you great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From flowery meadows, and from rooms of state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor think I call, your pleasures to destroy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But to refine, and to exalt your joy:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Weep not; but, smiling, fix your ardent care</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On nobler titles than the brave or fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Was ever such a mournful, moving sight?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See, if you can, by that dull, trembling light:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now they embrace; and, mix'd with bitter woe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like Isis and her Thames, one stream they flow:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now they start wide; fix'd in benumbing care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They stiffen into statues of despair:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, tenderly severe, and fiercely kind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They rush at once; they fling their cares behind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And clasp, as if to death; new vows repeat;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, quite wrapp'd up in love, forget their fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A short delusion! for the raging pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Returns; and their poor hearts must bleed again.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Meantime, the queen new cruelty decreed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, ill content that they should only bleed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A priest is sent; who, with insidious art,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Instills his poison into Suffolk's heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Guilford drank it: banging on the breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He from his childhood was with Rome possest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When now the ministers of death draw nigh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in her dearest lord she first must die,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The subtle priest, who long had watch'd to find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The most unguarded passes of her mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bespoke her thus: "Grieve not; 'tis in your power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your lord to rescue from this fatal hour."</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page053">[pg 053]</span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her bosom pants; she draws her breath with pain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sudden horror thrills through every vein;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Life seems suspended, on his words intent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And her soul trembles for the great event.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The priest proceeds: "Embrace the faith of Rome,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ward your own, your lord's, and father's doom."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye blessed spirits! now your charge sustain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The past was ease; now first she suffers pain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Must she pronounce her father's death? must she</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bid Guilford bleed?—It must not, cannot, be.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It cannot be! But 'tis the Christian's praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above impossibilities to raise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The weakness of our nature; and deride</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of vain philosophy the boasted pride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What though our feeble sinews scarce impart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A moment's swiftness to the feather'd dart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though tainted air our vig'rous youth can break,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And a chill blast the hardy warrior shake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet are we strong: hear the loud tempest roar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From east to west, and call us weak no more;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The lightning's unresisted force proclaims</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our might; and thunders raise our humble names;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis our Jehovah fills the heavens; as long</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As he shall reign Almighty, we are strong:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We, by devotion, borrow from his throne;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And almost make Omnipotence our own:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We force the gates of heaven, by fervent prayer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And call forth triumph out of man's despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our lovely mourner, kneeling, lifts her eyes</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page054">[pg 054]</span><a name="Pg054" id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bleeding heart, in silence, to the skies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Devoutly sad—then, bright'ning, like the day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When sudden winds sweep scatter'd clouds away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shining in majesty, till now unknown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And breathing life and spirit scarce her own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She, rising, speaks: "If these the terms——"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Here, Guilford, cruel Guilford, (barb'rous man!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is this thy love?) as swift as lightning ran;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'erwhelm'd her with tempestuous sorrow fraught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stifled, in its birth, the mighty thought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then bursting fresh into a flood of tears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fierce, resolute, delirious with his fears;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His fears for her alone: he beat his breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thus the fervour of his soul exprest:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Oh! let thy thought o'er our past converse rove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And show one moment uninflam'd with love!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh! if thy kindness can no longer last,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In pity to thyself, forget the past!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Else wilt thou never, void of shame and fear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pronounce his doom, whom thou hast held so dear:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou who hast took me to thy arms, and swore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Empires were vile, and fate could give no more:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That to continue, was its utmost power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And make the future like the present hour.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now call a ruffian; bid his cruel sword</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lay wide the bosom of thy worthless lord;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Transfix his heart (since you its love disclaim),</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stain his honour with a traitor's name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This might perhaps be borne without remorse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But sure a father's pangs will have their force!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page055">[pg 055]</span><a name="Pg055" id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall his good age, so near its journey's end,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through cruel torment to the grave descend?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His shallow blood all issue at a wound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wash a slave's feet, and smoke upon the ground?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But he to you has ever been severe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then take your vengeance"—Suffolk now drew near;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bending beneath the burden of his care;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His robes neglected, and his head was bare;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Decrepid winter, in the yearly ring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus slowly creeps, to meet the blooming spring:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Downward he cast a melancholy look;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thrice turn'd, to hide his grief; then faintly spoke:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Now deep in years, and forward in decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That axe can only rob me of a day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For thee, my soul's desire! I can't refrain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall my tears, my last tears, flow in vain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When you shall know a mother's tender name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My heart's distress no longer will you blame."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At this, afar his bursting groans were heard;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The tears ran trickling down his silver beard:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He snatch'd her hand, which to his lips he prest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bid her plant a dagger in his breast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, sinking, call'd her piety unjust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And soil'd his hoary temples in the dust.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hard-hearted men! will you no mercy know?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has the queen brib'd you to distress her foe?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O weak deserters to misfortune's part,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By false affection thus to pierce her heart!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When she had soar'd, to let your arrows fly,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page056">[pg 056]</span><a name="Pg056" id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fetch her bleeding from the middle sky!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And can her virtue, springing from the ground,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her flight recover, and disdain the wound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When cleaving love, and human interest, bind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The broken force of her aspiring mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As round the gen'rous eagle, which in vain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Exerts her strength, the serpent wreaths his train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her struggling wings entangles, curling plies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His pois'nous tail, and stings her as she flies!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">While yet the blow's first dreadful weight she feels,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with its force her resolution reels;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Large doors, unfolding with a mournful sound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To view discover, welt'ring on the ground,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Three headless trunks, of those whose arms maintain'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in her wars immortal glory gain'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The lifted axe assur'd her ready doom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And silent mourners sadden'd all the room.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall I proceed; or here break off my tale;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor truths, to stagger human faith, reveal?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">She met this utmost malice of her fate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With Christian dignity, and pious state:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The beating storm's propitious rage she blest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the martyr triumph'd in her breast:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her lord and father, for a moment's space,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She strictly folded in her soft embrace!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then thus she spoke, while angels heard on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sudden gladness smil'd along the sky:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Your over fondness has not mov'd my hate;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page057">[pg 057]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I am well pleas'd you make my death so great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I joy I cannot save you; and have giv'n</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Two lives, much dearer than my own, to heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If so the queen decrees:<a id="noteref_4" name="noteref_4" href="#note_4"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">4</span></span></a>—But I have cause</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To hope my blood will satisfy the laws;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And there is mercy still, for you, in store:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With me the bitterness of death is o'er.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He shot his sting in that farewell embrace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all, that is to come, is joy and peace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then let mistaken sorrow be supprest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor seem to envy my approaching rest."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, turning to the ministers of fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She, smiling, says, "My victory complete:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tell your queen, I thank her for the blow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And grieve my gratitude I cannot show:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A poor return I leave in England's crown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For everlasting pleasure, and renown:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her guilt alone allays this happy hour;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her guilt,—the only vengeance in her power."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Not Rome, untouch'd with sorrow, heard her fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fierce Maria pitied her too late.</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page058">[pg 058]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc15" id="toc15"></a><a name="pdf16" id="pdf16"></a> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Love of Fame, the Universal Passion.</span></h1> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">In Seven Characteristical Satires.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">——Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Non minus ignotos generosis.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Hor.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc17" id="toc17"></a><a name="pdf18" id="pdf18"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Preface.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These satires have been favourably received at +home and abroad. I am not conscious of the +least malevolence to any particular person through +all the characters; though some persons may be +so selfish, as to engross a general application to +themselves. A writer in polite letters should be +content with reputation; the private amusement +he finds in his compositions; the good influence +they have on his severer studies; that admission +they give him to his superiors; and the possible +good effect they may have on the public; or else +he should join to his politeness some more lucrative +qualification.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But it is possible, that satire may not do much +good: men may rise in their affections to their +follies, as they do to their friends, when they are +abused by others: it is much to be feared, that + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page059">[pg 059]</span><a name="Pg059" id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +misconduct will never be chased out of the world +by satire; all therefore that is to be said for it is, +that misconduct will certainly be never chased out +of the world by satire, if no satires are written: +nor is that term unapplicable to graver compositions. +Ethics, heathen and Christian, and the +Scriptures themselves, are, in a great measure, a +satire on the weakness and iniquity of men; and +some part of that satire is in verse too: nay, in +the first ages, philosophy and poetry were the +same thing; wisdom wore no other dress: so +that, I hope, these satires will be the more easily +pardoned that misfortune by the severe. Nay, +historians themselves may be considered as satirists, +and satirists most severe; since such are +most human actions, that to relate, is to expose +them.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No man can converse much in the world, but, +at what he meets with, he must either be insensible, +or grieve, or be angry, or smile. Some +passion (if we are not impassive) must be moved; +for the general conduct of mankind is by no +means a thing indifferent to a reasonable and virtuous +man. Now to smile at it, and turn it into +ridicule, I think most eligible; as it hurts ourselves +least, and gives vice and folly the greatest +offence: and that for this reason; because what +men aim at by them, is, generally, public opinion +and esteem; which truth is the subject of the following +satire; and joins them together, as several + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page060">[pg 060]</span><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +brandies from the same root: a unity of design, +which has not, I think, in a set of satires, been +attempted before.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Laughing at the misconduct of the world, will, +in a great measure, ease us of any more disagreeable +passion about it. One passion is more effectually +driven out by another, than by reason; +whatever some may teach: for to reason we owe +our passions: had we not reason, we should not +be offended at what we find amiss: and the cause +seems not to be the natural cure of any effect.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Moreover, laughing satire bids the fairest for +success: the world is too proud to be fond of a +serious tutor; and when an author is in a passion, +the laugh, generally, as in conversation, turns +against him. This kind of satire only has any +delicacy in it. Of this delicacy Horace is the +best master: he appears in good humour while he +censures; and therefore his censure has the more +weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment, +not from passion. Juvenal is ever in a passion; +he has little valuable but his eloquence and morality: +the last of which I have had in my eye: +but rather for emulation, than imitation, through +my whole work.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But though I comparatively condemn Juvenal, +in part of the sixth satire (where the occasion +most required it), I endeavoured to touch on his +manner; but was forced to quit it soon, as disagreeable +to the writer, and reader too. Boileau + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page061">[pg 061]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +has joined both the Roman satirists with great +success; but has too much of Juvenal in his very +serious satire on woman, which should have been +the gayest of all. An excellent critic of our own +commends Boileau's closeness, or, as he calls it, +pressness, particularly; whereas, it appears to +me, that repetition is his fault, if any fault should +be imputed to him.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There are some prose satirists of the greatest +delicacy and wit; the last of which can never, or +should never, succeed without the former. An +author without it, betrays too great a contempt for +mankind, and opinion of himself, which are bad advocates +for reputation and success. What a difference +is there between the merit, if not the wit, of +Cervantes and Rabelais? The last has a particular +art of throwing a great deal of genius and +learning into frolic and jest; but the genius and +the scholar is all you can admire; you want the +gentleman to converse with in him: he is like a +criminal who receives his life for some services; +you commend, but you pardon too. Indecency +offends our pride, as men; and our unaffected +taste, as judges of composition: nature has wisely +formed us with an aversion to it; and he that +succeeds in spite of it, is,<a id="noteref_5" name="noteref_5" href="#note_5"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">5</span></span></a> aliena venia, quam sua +providentia tutior.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such wits, like false oracles of old (which were +wits and cheats), should set up for reputation + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page062">[pg 062]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +among the weak, in some Bœotia, which was the +land of oracles; for the wise will hold them in +contempt. Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in +ambiguities; but not with equal success: for +though ambiguities are the first excellence of an +impostor, they are the last of a wit.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Some satirical wits and humourists, like their +father Lucian, laugh at every thing indiscriminately; +which betrays such a poverty of wit, as +cannot afford to part with any thing; and such a +want of virtue, as to postpone it to a jest. Such +writers encourage vice and folly, which they pretend +to combat, by setting them on an equal foot +with better things: and while they labour to +bring every thing into contempt, how can they +expect their own parts should escape? Some +French writers, particularly, are guilty of this in +matters of the last consequence; and some of our +own. They that are for lessening the true dignity +of mankind, are not sure of being successful, +but with regard to one individual in it. It is this +conduct that justly makes a wit a term of reproach.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Which puts me in mind of Plato's fable of the +birth of love; one of the prettiest fables of all antiquity; +which will hold likewise with regard to +modern poetry. Love, says he, is the son of the +goddess poverty, and the god of riches: he has +from his father his daring genius; his elevation +of thought; his building castles in the air; his + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page063">[pg 063]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +prodigality; his neglect of things serious and useful; +his vain opinion of his own merit; and his +affectation of preference and distinction: from his +mother he inherits his indigence, which makes +him a constant beggar of favours; that importunity +with which he begs; his flattery; his servility; +his fear of being despised, which is inseparable +from him. This addition may be made; +viz. that poetry, like love, is a little subject to +blindness, which makes her mistake her way to +preferments and honours; that she has her satirical +quiver; and, lastly, that she retains a dutiful +admiration of her father's family; but divides +her favours, and generally lives with her mother's +relations.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">However, this is not necessity, but choice: +were wisdom her governess, she might have +much more of the father than the mother; especially +in such an age as this, which shows a due +passion for her charms.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc19" id="toc19"></a><a name="pdf20" id="pdf20"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Satire I.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DORSET.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">——Tanto major famæ sitis est, quam</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Virtutis.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Juv. Sat. X.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My verse is satire; Dorset, lend your ear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And patronize a muse you cannot fear.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page064">[pg 064]</span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To poets sacred is a Dorset's name:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their wonted passport through the gates of fame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It bribes the partial reader into praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And throws a glory round the shelter'd lays:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The dazzled judgment fewer faults can see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gives applause to Blackmore, or to me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But you decline the mistress we pursue;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Others are fond of fame, but fame of you.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Instructive satire, true to virtue's cause!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou shining supplement of public laws!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When flatter'd crimes of a licentious age</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reproach our silence, and demand our rage;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When purchas'd follies, from each distant land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like arts, improve in Britain's skilful hand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When the law shows her teeth, but dares not bite,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And south sea treasures are not brought to light;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When churchmen scripture for the classics quit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Polite apostates from God's grace to wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When men grow great from their revenue spent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fly from bailiffs into parliament;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When dying sinners, to blot out their score,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bequeath the church the leavings of a whore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To chafe our spleen, when themes like these increase,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall panegyric reign, and censure cease?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Shall poesy, like law, turn wrong to right,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dedications wash an Æthiop white,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Set up each senseless wretch for nature's boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On whom praise shines, as trophies on a post?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall fun'ral eloquence her colours spread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And scatter roses on the wealthy dead?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page065">[pg 065]</span><a name="Pg065" id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall authors smile on such illustrious days,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And satirize with nothing—but their praise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Why slumbers Pope, who leads the tuneful train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor hears that virtue, which he loves, complain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Donne, Dorset, Dryden, Rochester, are dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And guilt's chief foe, in Addison, is fled;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Congreve, who, crown'd with laurels, fairly won,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sits smiling at the goal, while others run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He will not write; and (more provoking still!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye gods! he will not write, and Mævius will.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Doubly distrest, what author shall we find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Discreetly daring, and severely kind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The courtly<a id="noteref_6" name="noteref_6" href="#note_6"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">6</span></span></a> Roman's shining path to tread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sharply smile prevailing folly dead?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will no superior genius snatch the quill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And save me, on the brink, from writing ill?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' vain the strife, I'll strive my voice to raise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What will not men attempt for sacred praise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reigns, more or less, and glows, in ev'ry heart:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The modest shun it, but to make it sure.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er globes, and sceptres, now on thrones it swells;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, trims the midnight lamp in college cells:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis tory, whig; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, to Steele's humour makes a bold pretence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There, bolder, aims at Pulteney's eloquence.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page066">[pg 066]</span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor ends with life; but nods in sable plumes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What is not proud? The pimp is proud to see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So many like himself in high degree:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The whore is proud her beauties are the dread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of peevish virtue, and the marriage-bed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the brib'd cuckold, like crown'd victims born</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To slaughter, glories in his gilded horn.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some go to church, proud humbly to repent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And come back much more guilty than they went:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One way they look, another way they steer,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pray to the gods, but would have mortals hear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when their sins they set sincerely down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They'll find that their religion has been one.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Others with wishful eyes on glory look,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When they have got their picture tow'rds a book;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or pompous title, like a gaudy sign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Meant to betray dull sots to wretched wine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If at his title T—— had dropt his quill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">T—— might have pass'd for a great genius still.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But T——, alas! (excuse him, if you can)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is now a scribbler, who was once a man.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Imperious some a classic fame demand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For heaping up, with a laborious hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A waggon-load of meanings for one word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While A's deposed, and B with pomp restor'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And think they grow immortal as they quote.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page067">[pg 067]</span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To patch-work learn'd quotations are allied;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Both strive to make our poverty our pride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On glass how witty is a noble peer!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did ever diamond cost a man so dear?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Polite diseases make some idiots vain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of folly, vice, disease, men proud we see;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And (stranger still!) of blockheads' flattery;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose praise defames; as if a fool should mean,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By spitting on your face, to make it clean.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor is't enough all hearts are swoln with pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her power is mighty, as her realm is wide.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What can she not perform? The love of fame</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Made bold Alphonsus his Creator blame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Empedocles hurl'd down the burning steep:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And (stronger still!) made Alexander weep.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, it holds Delia from a second bed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' her lov'd lord has four half months been dead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This passion with a pimple have I seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Retard a cause, and give a judge the spleen.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By this inspir'd (O ne'er to be forgot!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some lords have learn'd to spell, and some to knot.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It makes Globose a speaker in the house;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He hems, and is deliver'd of his mouse.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It makes dear self on well-bred tongues prevail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And I the little hero of each tale.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sick with the love of fame, what throngs pour in,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unpeople court, and leave the senate thin!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My glowing subject seems but just begun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, chariot-like, I kindle as I run.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page068">[pg 068]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Aid me, great Homer! with thy epic rules,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To take a catalogue of British fools.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Satire! had I thy Dorset's force divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A knave or fool should perish in each line;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' for the first all Westminster should plead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And for the last, all Gresham intercede.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Begin. Who first the catalogue shall grace?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To quality belongs the highest place.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My lord comes forward; forward let him come!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye vulgar! at your peril, give him room:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He stands for fame on his forefathers' feet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By heraldry prov'd valiant or discreet.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With what a decent pride he throws his eyes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above the man by three descents less wise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If virtues at his noble hands you crave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You bid him raise his fathers from the grave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men should press forward in fame's glorious chase;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let high birth triumph! What can be more great?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing—but merit in a low estate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To virtue's humblest son let none prefer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vice, though descended from the conqueror.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall men, like figures, pass for high, or base,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Slight, or important, only by their place?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fool, or knave, that wears a title, lies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Produce their debt, instead of their discharge.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dorset, let those who proudly boast their line,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like thee, in worth hereditary, shine.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page069">[pg 069]</span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vain as false greatness is, the muse must own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We want not fools to buy that Bristol stone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mean sons of earth, who, on a south-sea tide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of full success, swarm into wealth and pride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Knock with a purse of gold at Anstis' gate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And beg to be descended from the great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When men of infamy to grandeur soar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They light a torch to show their shame the more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those governments which curb not evils, cause!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And a rich knave's a libel on our laws.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Belus with solid glory will be crown'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He buys no phantom, no vain empty sound;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But builds himself a name; and, to be great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sinks in a quarry an immense estate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In cost and grandeur, Chandos he'll outdo;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Burlington, thy taste is not so true.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pile is finish'd! ev'ry toil is past;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And full perfection is arriv'd at last;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When, lo! my lord to some small corner runs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And leaves state-rooms to strangers and to duns.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Provides a home from which to run away.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Britain, what is many a lordly seat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But a discharge in full for an estate?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In smaller compass lies Pygmalion's fame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not domes, but antique statues, are his flame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not Fountaine's self more Parian charms has known,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor is good Pembroke more in love with stone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bailiffs come (rude men profanely bold!)</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page070">[pg 070]</span><a name="Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bid him turn his Venus into gold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"No, sirs," he cries; "I'll sooner rot in jail;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall Grecian arts be truck'd for English bail?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such heads might make their very busto's laugh:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His daughter starves; but<a id="noteref_7" name="noteref_7" href="#note_7"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">7</span></span></a> Cleopatra's safe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Men, overloaded with a large estate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May spill their treasure in a nice conceit:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The rich may be polite; but, oh! 'tis sad</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To say you're curious, when we swear you're mad.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By your revenue measure your expense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to your funds and acres join your sense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No man is bless'd by accident or guess;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True wisdom is the price of happiness:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet few without long discipline are sage;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And our youth only lays up sighs for age.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But how, my muse, canst thou resist so long</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bright temptation of the courtly throng,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy most inviting theme? The court affords</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Much food for satire;—it abounds in lords.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"What lords are those saluting with a grin?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One is just out, and one as lately in.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"How comes it then to pass we see preside</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On both their brows an equal share of pride?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pride, that impartial passion, reigns through all,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Attends our glory, nor deserts our fall.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As in its home it triumphs in high place,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And frowns a haughty exile in disgrace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some lords it bids admire their wands so white,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page071">[pg 071]</span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which bloom, like Aaron's, to their ravish'd sight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some lords it bids resign; and turn their wands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like Moses', into serpents in their hands.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These sink, as divers, for renown; and boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With pride inverted, of their honours lost.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But against reason sure 'tis equal sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To boast of merely being out, or in.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What numbers here, through odd ambition, strive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To seem the most transported things alive!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As if by joy, desert was understood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the fortunate were wise and good.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence aching bosoms wear a visage gay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stifled groans frequent the ball and play.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Completely drest by<a id="noteref_8" name="noteref_8" href="#note_8"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">8</span></span></a> Monteuil, and grimace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They take their birth-day suit, and public face:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their smiles are only part of what they wear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Put off at night, with Lady B——'s hair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What bodily fatigue is half so bad?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With anxious care they labour to be glad.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What numbers, here, would into fame advance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conscious of merit, in the coxcomb's dance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The tavern! park! assembly! mask! and play!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those dear destroyers of the tedious day!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That wheel of fops! that saunter of the town!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Call it diversion, and the pill goes down.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fools grin on fools, and, stoic-like, support,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without one sigh, the pleasures of a court.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Courts can give nothing, to the wise and good,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page072">[pg 072]</span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But scorn of pomp, and love of solitude.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">High stations tumult, but not bliss, create:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">None think the great unhappy, but the great:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fools gaze, and envy; envy darts a sting,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which makes a swain as wretched as a king.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I envy none their pageantry and show;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I envy none the gilding of their woe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No splendid poverty, no smiling care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There pleasing objects useful thought suggest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sense is ravish'd, and the soul is blest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On every thorn delightful wisdom grows;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In every rill a sweet instruction flows.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But some, untaught, o'erhear the whisp'ring rill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In spite of sacred leisure, blockheads still;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor shoots up folly to a nobler bloom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In her own native soil, the drawing-room.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The squire is proud to see his coursers strain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or well-breath'd beagles sweep along the plain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say, dear Hippolitus, (whose drink is ale,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose erudition is a Christmas tale,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose mistress is saluted with a smack,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And friend receiv'd with thumps upon the back,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When thy sleek gelding nimbly leaps the mound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Ringwood opens on the tainted ground,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is that thy praise? Let Ringwood's fame alone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Just Ringwood leaves each animal his own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor envies, when a gipsy you commit,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page073">[pg 073]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shake the clumsy bench with country wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When you the dullest of dull things have said,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And then ask pardon for the jest you made.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Here breathe, my muse! and then thy task renew:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ten thousand fools unsung are still in view.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fewer lay-atheists made by church debates;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fewer great beggars fam'd for large estates;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ladies, whose love is constant as the wind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cits, who prefer a guinea to mankind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fewer grave lords to Scrope discreetly bend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fewer shocks a statesman gives his friend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is there a man of an eternal vein,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who lulls the town in winter with his strain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At Bath, in summer, chants the reigning lass,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sweetly whistles, as the waters pass?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is there a tongue, like Delia's o'er her cup,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That runs for ages without winding up?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is there, whom his tenth epic mounts to fame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such, and such only, might exhaust my theme:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor would these heroes of the task be glad;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For who can write so fast as men run mad?</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc21" id="toc21"></a><a name="pdf22" id="pdf22"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Satire II</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My muse, proceed, and reach thy destin'd end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though toils and danger the bold task attend.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page074">[pg 074]</span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heroes and gods make other poems fine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Plain satire calls for sense in every line:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, to what swarms thy faults I dare expose!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All friends to vice and folly are thy foes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When such the foe, a war eternal wage;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis most ill-nature to repress thy rage:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And if these strains some nobler muse excite,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I'll glory in the verse I did not write.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So weak are human kind by nature made,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or to such weakness by their vice betray'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Almighty vanity! to thee they owe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou, like the sun, all colours dost contain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Varying, like rays of light, on drops of rain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For every soul finds reasons to be proud,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' hiss'd and hooted by the pointing crowd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Warm in pursuit of foxes, and renown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_9" name="noteref_9" href="#note_9"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">9</span></span></a>Hippolitus demands the sylvan crown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But Florio's fame, the product of a shower,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grows in his garden, an illustrious flower!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why teems the earth? Why melt the vernal skies?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why shines the sun? To make<a id="noteref_10" name="noteref_10" href="#note_10"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">10</span></span></a> Paul Diack rise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From morn to night has Florio gazing stood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wonder'd how the gods could be so good;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What shape! what hue! was ever nymph so fair!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He dotes! he dies! he too is rooted there.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page075">[pg 075]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O solid bliss! which nothing can destroy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Except a cat, bird, snail, or idle boy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In fame's full bloom lies Florio down at night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wakes next day a most inglorious wight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The tulip's dead! See thy fair sister's fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O C——! and be kind ere 'tis too late.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor are those enemies I mention'd, all;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beware, O florist, thy ambition's fall.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A friend of mine indulg'd this noble flame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A quaker serv'd him, Adam was his name;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To one lov'd tulip oft the master went,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hung o'er it, and whole days in rapture spent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But came, and miss'd it, one ill-fated hour:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He rag'd! he roar'd! "What demon cropt my flower?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Serene, quoth Adam, "Lo! 'twas crusht by me;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fall'n is the Baal to which thou bow'dst thy knee."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But all men want amusement; and what crime</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In such a paradise to fool their time?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">None: but why proud of this? to fame they soar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We grant they're idle, if they'll ask no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">We smile at florists, we despise their joy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And think their hearts enamour'd of a toy:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But are those wiser whom we most admire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Survey with envy, and pursue with fire?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's he who sighs for wealth, or fame, or power?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Another Florio doting on a flower;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A short liv'd flower; and which has often sprung</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From sordid arts, as Florio's out of dung.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page076">[pg 076]</span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With what, O Codrus! is thy fancy smit?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The flower of learning, and the bloom of wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The gaudy shelves with crimson bindings glow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Epictetus is a perfect beau.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How fit for thee! bound up in crimson too,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gilt, and, like them, devoted to the view!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy books are furniture. Methinks 'tis hard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That science should be purchas'd by the yard;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Tonson, turn'd upholsterer, send home</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The gilded leather to fit up thy room.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If not to some peculiar end design'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Study's the specious trifling of the mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or is at best a secondary aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A chase for sport alone, and not for game.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If so, sure they who the mere volume prize,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But love the thicket where the quarry lies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On buying books Lorenzo long was bent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But found at length that it reduc'd his rent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His farms were flown; when, lo! a sale comes on,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A choice collection! what is to be done?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He sells his last; for he the whole will buy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sells ev'n his house; nay, wants whereon to lie:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So high the gen'rous ardour of the man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For Romans, Greeks, and Orientals ran.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When terms were drawn, and brought him by the clerk,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lorenzo sign'd the bargain—with his mark.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unlearned men of books assume the care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Not in his authors' liveries alone</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page077">[pg 077]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is Codrus' erudite ambition shown:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Editions various, at high prices bought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inform the world what Codrus would be thought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to his cost another must succeed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To pay a sage, who says that he can read;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who titles knows, and indexes has seen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But leaves to Chesterfield what lies between;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of pompous books who shuns the proud expense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And humbly is contented with their sense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O Stanhope, whose accomplishments make good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The promise of a long illustrious blood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In arts and manners eminently grac'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The strictest honour! and the finest taste!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Accept this verse; if satire can agree</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With so consummate a humanity.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By your example would Hilario mend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How would it grace the talents of my friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, with the charms of his own genius smit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conceives all virtues are compris'd in wit!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But time his fervent petulance may cool;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For though he is a wit, he is no fool.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In time he'll learn to use, not waste, his sense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor make a frailty of an excellence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He spares nor friend, nor foe; but calls to mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like doomsday, all the faults of all mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What though wit tickles? tickling is unsafe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If still 'tis painful while it makes us laugh.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, for the poor renown of being smart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Parts may be prais'd, good-nature is ador'd;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page078">[pg 078]</span><a name="Pg078" id="Pg078" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then draw your wit as seldom as your sword;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And never on the weak; or you'll appear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As there no hero, no great genius here.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As in smooth oil the razor best is whet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So wit is by politeness sharpest set:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their want of edge from their offence is seen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fame men give is for the joy they find;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dull is the jester, when the joke's unkind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Since Marcus, doubtless, thinks himself a wit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To pay my compliment, what place so fit?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His most facetious<a id="noteref_11" name="noteref_11" href="#note_11"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">11</span></span></a>letters came to hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which my first satire sweetly reprimand:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If that a just offence to Marcus gave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say, Marcus, which art thou, a fool, or knave?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For all but such with caution I forbore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That thou wast either, I ne'er knew before:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I know thee now, both what thou art, and who;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No mask so good, but Marcus must shine through:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">False names are vain, thy lines their author tell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy best concealment had been writing well:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But thou a brave neglect of fame hast shown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of others' fame, great genius! and thy own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Write on unheeded; and this maxim know,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man who pardons, disappoints his foe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In malice to proud wits, some proudly lull</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their peevish reason; vain of being dull;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When some home joke has stung their solemn souls,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page079">[pg 079]</span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In vengeance they determine to be fools;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through spleen, that little nature gave, make less,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Quite zealous in the way of heaviness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To lumps inanimate a fondness take;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And disinherit sons that are awake.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These, when their utmost venom they would spit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Most barbarously tell you—"He's a wit."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Poor negroes, thus, to show their burning spite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To cacodemons, say, they're dev'lish white.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Lampridius, from the bottom of his breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sighs o'er one child; but triumphs in the rest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How just his grief! one carries in his head</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A less proportion of the father's lead;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And is in danger, without special grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To rise above a justice of the peace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The dunghill breed of men a diamond scorn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And feel a passion for a grain of corn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some stupid, plodding, monkey-loving wight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who wins their hearts by knowing black from white,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who with much pains, exerting all his sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can range aright his shillings, pounds, and pence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The booby father craves a booby son;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And by heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Wants of all kinds are made to fame a plea;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One learns to lisp; another not to see:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Miss D——, tottering, catches at your hand:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Was ever thing so pretty born to stand?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whilst these, what nature gave, disown, through pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Others affect what nature has denied;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page080">[pg 080]</span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What nature has denied, fools will pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As apes are ever walking upon two.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Crassus, a grateful sage, our awe and sport!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Supports grave forms; for forms the sage support.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He hems; and cries, with an important air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"If yonder clouds withdraw it will be fair:"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then quotes the Stagyrite, to prove it true;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And adds, "The learn'd delight in something new."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is't not enough the blockhead scarce can read,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But must he wisely look, and gravely plead?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As far a formalist from wisdom sits,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In judging eyes, as libertines from wits.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">These subtle wights (so blind are mortal men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though satire couch them with her keenest pen)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For ever will hang out a solemn face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To put off nonsense with a better grace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As pedlers with some hero's head make bold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Illustrious mark! where pins are to be sold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's the bent brow, or neck in thought reclin'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The body's wisdom to conceal the mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A man of sense can artifice disdain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As men of wealth may venture to go plain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And be this truth eternal ne'er forgot,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Solemnity's a cover for a sot.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I find the fool, when I behold the screen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For 'tis the wise man's interest to be seen.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hence, Chesterfield, that openness of heart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And just disdain for that poor mimic art;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence (manly praise!) that manner nobly free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which all admire, and I commend, in thee.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page081">[pg 081]</span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With generous scorn how oft hast thou survey'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of court and town the noontide masquerade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where swarms of knaves the vizor quite disgrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hide secure behind a naked face?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where nature's end of language is declin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And men talk only to conceal the mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where gen'rous hearts the greatest hazard run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And he who trusts a brother, is undone?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">These all their care expend on outward show</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For wealth and fame; for fame alone, the beau.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of late at White's was young Florello seen!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How blank his look! how discompos'd his mien!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So hard it proves in grief sincere to feign!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sunk were his spirits; for his coat was plain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Next day his breast regain'd its wonted peace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His health was mended with a silver lace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A curious artist, long inur'd to toils</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of gentler sort, with combs, and fragrant oils,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether by chance, or by some god inspir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So touch'd his curls, his mighty soul was fir'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The well swoln ties an equal homage claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And either shoulder has its share of fame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His sumptuous watch-case, tho' conceal'd it lies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like a good conscience, solid joy supplies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He only thinks himself (so far from vain!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stanhope in wit, in breeding Deloraine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whene'er, by seeming chance, he throws his eye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On mirrors that reflect his Tyrian dye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With how sublime a transport leaps his heart!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page082">[pg 082]</span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In active measures, brought from France, he wheels,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And triumphs, conscious of his learned heels.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So have I seen, on some bright summer's day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A calf of genius, debonnair and gay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dance on the bank, as if inspir'd by fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fond of the pretty fellow in the stream.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Morose is sunk with shame, whene'er surpris'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In linen clean, or peruke undisguis'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No sublunary chance his vestments fear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Valu'd, like leopards, as their spots appear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A fam'd surtout he wears, which once was blue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And his foot swims in a capacious shoe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One day his wife (for who can wives reclaim?)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Levell'd her barb'rous needle at his fame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But open force was vain; by night she went,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And while he slept, surpris'd the darling rent:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where yawn'd the frieze is now become a doubt;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And glory, at one entrance, quite shut out.<a id="noteref_12" name="noteref_12" href="#note_12"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">12</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He scorns Florello, and Florello him;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This hates the filthy creature; that, the prim:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus, in each other, both these fools despise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their own dear selves, with undiscerning eyes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their methods various, but alike their aim;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sloven and the fopling are the same.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye whigs and tories! thus it fares with you,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When party rage too warmly you pursue;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then both club nonsense, and impetuous pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And folly joins whom sentiments divide.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page083">[pg 083]</span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You vent your spleen, as monkeys, when they pass,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Scratch at the mimic monkey in the glass;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While both are one: and henceforth be it known,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fools of both sides shall stand for fools alone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"But who art thou?" methinks Florello cries;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Of all thy species art thou only wise?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since smallest things can give our sins a twitch,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As crossing straws retard a passing witch,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Florello, thou my monitor shalt be;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I'll conjure thus some profit out of thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O thou myself! abroad our counsels roam,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, like ill husbands, take no care at home:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou too art wounded with the common dart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And love of fame lies throbbing at thy heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what wise means to gain it hast thou chose?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Know, fame and fortune both are made of prose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is thy ambition sweating for a rhyme,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou unambitious fool, at this late time?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While I a moment name, a moment's past;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I'm nearer death in this verse, than the last:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What then is to be done? Be wise with speed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A fool at forty is a fool indeed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And what so foolish as the chance of fame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How vain the prize! how impotent our aim!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For what are men who grasp at praise sublime,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But bubbles on the rapid stream of time,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That rise, and fall, that swell, and are no more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Born, and forgot, ten thousand in an hour?</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc23" id="toc23"></a><a name="pdf24" id="pdf24"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page084">[pg 084]</span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Satire III.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">To the Right Honorable Mr. Dodington.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To ease the burthen of my grateful thought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And now a poet's gratitude you see;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grant him two favours, and he'll ask for three:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For whose the present glory, or the gain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You give protection, I a worthless strain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You love and feel the poet's sacred flame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And know the basis of a solid fame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' prone to like, yet cautious to commend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You read with all the malice of a friend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor favour my attempts that way alone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, more to raise my verse, conceal your own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An ill-tim'd modesty! turn ages o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When wanted Britain bright examples more?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her learning, and her genius too, decays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dark and cold are her declining days;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As if men now were of another cast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They meanly live on alms of ages past.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men still are men; and they who boldly dare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall triumph o'er the sons of cold despair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, if they fail, they justly still take place</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of such who run in debt for their disgrace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who borrow much, then fairly make it known,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And damn it with improvements of their own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We bring some new materials, and what's old</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">New cast with care, and in no borrow'd mould;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page085">[pg 085]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Late times the verse may read, if these refuse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And from sour critics vindicate the muse.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Your work is long," the critics cry. "Tis true,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lengthens still, to take in fools like you:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shorten my labour, if its length you blame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For, grow but wise, you rob me of my game;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As hunted hags, who, while the dogs pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Renounce their four legs, and start up on two.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Like the bold bird upon the banks of Nile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That picks the teeth of the dire crocodile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will I enjoy, (dread feast!) the critic's rage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with the fell destroyer feed my page.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For what ambitious fools are more to blame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than those who thunder in the critic's name?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Good authors damn'd, have their revenge in this,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To see what wretches gain the praise they miss.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Balbutius, muffled in his sable cloak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like an old Druid from his hollow oak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As ravens solemn, and as boding, cries,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Ten thousand worlds for the three unities!"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye doctors sage, who thro' Parnassus teach,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or quit the tub, or practise what you preach.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">One judges as the weather dictates; right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The poem is at noon, and wrong at night:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Another judges by a surer gage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An author's principles, or parentage;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since his great ancestors in Flanders fell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The poem doubtless must be written well.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Another judges by the writer's look;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Another judges, for he bought the book;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page086">[pg 086]</span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some judge, their knack of judging wrong to keep;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some judge, because it is too soon to sleep.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus all will judge, and with one single aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To gain themselves, not give the writer, fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The very best ambitiously advise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Half to serve you, and half to pass for wise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Proclaim the glory, and augment the state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, stink, and die.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rail on, my friends! what more my verse can crown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than Compton's smile, and your obliging frown?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Not all on books their criticism waste:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The genius of a dish some justly taste,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And eat their way to fame; with anxious thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The salmon is refus'd, the turbot bought.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Impatient art rebukes the sun's delay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bids December yield the fruits of May;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their various cares in one great point combine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The business of their lives, that is—to dine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Half of their precious day they give the feast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to a kind digestion spare the rest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Apicius, here, the taster of the town,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Feeds twice a week, to settle their renown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">These worthies of the palate guard with care</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sacred annals of their bills of fare;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In those choice books their panegyrics read,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And scorn the creatures that for hunger feed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If man by feeding well commences great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Much more the worm to whom that man is meat.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page087">[pg 087]</span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To glory some advance a lying claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thieves of renown, and pilferers of fame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their front supplies what their ambition lacks;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They know a thousand lords, behind their backs.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cottil is apt to wink upon a peer,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When turn'd away, with a familiar leer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Harvey's eyes, unmercifully keen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have murder'd fops, by whom she ne'er was seen.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Niger adopts stray libels; wisely prone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To covet shame still greater than his own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bathyllus, in the winter of threescore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Belies his innocence, and keeps a whore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Absence of mind Brabantio turns to fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Learns to mistake, nor knows his brother's name;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has words and thoughts in nice disorder set,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And takes a memorandum to forget.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus vain, not knowing what adorns, or blots,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men forge the patents, that create them sots.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As love of pleasure into pain betrays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So most grow infamous thro' love of praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But whence for praise can such an ardour rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When those, who bring that incense, we despise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For such the vanity of great and small,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Contempt goes round, and all men laugh at all.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor can ev'n satire blame them; for, 'tis true,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They have most ample cause for what they do.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O fruitful Britain! doubtless thou wast meant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A nurse of fools, to stock the continent.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' Phœbus and the Nine for ever mow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rank folly underneath the scythe will grow.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page088">[pg 088]</span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The plenteous harvest calls me forward still,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till I surpass in length my lawyer's bill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A Welsh descent, which well paid heralds damn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, longer still, a Dutchman's epigram.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When, cloy'd, in fury I throw down my pen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In comes a coxcomb, and I write again.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">See Tityrus, with merriment possest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is burst with laughter, ere he hears the jest:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What need he stay? for when the joke is o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His teeth will be no whiter than before.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is there of these, ye fair! so great a dearth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That you need purchase monkeys for your mirth?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some, vain of paintings, bid the world admire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of houses some; nay, houses that they hire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some (perfect wisdom!) of a beauteous wife;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And boast, like Cordeliers, a scourge for life.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sometimes, thro' pride, the sexes change their airs;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My lord has vapours, and my lady swears;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, stranger still! on turning of the wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My lord wears breeches, and my lady's kind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To show the strength, and infamy of pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By all 'tis follow'd, and by all denied.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What numbers are there, which at once pursue</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Praise, and the glory to contemn it, too!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vincenna knows self-praise betrays to shame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And therefore lays a stratagem for fame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Makes his approach in modesty's disguise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To win applause; and takes it by surprise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"To err," says he, "in small things, is my fate."</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page089">[pg 089]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You know your answer, he's exact in great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"My style," says he, "is rude and full of faults."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But oh! what sense! what energy of thoughts!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That he wants algebra, he must confess;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But not a soul to give our arms success.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Ah; that's a hit indeed," Vincenna cries;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"But who in heat of blood was ever wise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I own 'twas wrong, when thousands call'd me back,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To make that hopeless, ill-advis'd attack;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All say, 'twas madness; nor dare I deny;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sure never fool so well deserv'd to die."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could this deceive in others, to be free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It ne'er, Vincenna, could deceive in thee;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose conduct is a comment to thy tongue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So clear, the dullest cannot take thee wrong.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou on one sleeve wilt thy revenues wear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And haunt the court, without a prospect there.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are these expedients for renown? Confess</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy little self, that I may scorn thee less.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Be wise, Vincenna, and the court forsake;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our fortunes there, nor thou, nor I, shall make.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ev'n men of merit, ere their point they gain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In hardy service make a long campaign;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Most manfully besiege their patron's gate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And oft repuls'd, as oft attack the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With painful art, and application warm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And take, at last, some little place by storm;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enough to keep two shoes on Sunday clean,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And starve upon discreetly, in Sheer Lane.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Already this thy fortune can afford;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page090">[pg 090]</span><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then starve without the favour of my lord.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis true, great fortunes some great men confer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But often, ev'n in doing right, they err:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From caprice, not from choice, their favours come;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They give, but think it toil to know to whom:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man that's nearest, yawning, they advance:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis inhumanity to bless by chance.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If merit sues, and greatness is so loth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To break its downy trance, I pity both.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I grant at court, Philander, at his need,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Thanks to his lovely wife) finds friends indeed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of every charm and virtue she's possest:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Philander! thou art exquisitely blest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The public envy! Now then, 'tis allow'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man is found, who may be justly proud:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, see! how sickly is ambition's taste!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ambition feeds on trash, and loaths a feast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For, lo! Philander, of reproach afraid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In secret loves his wife, but keeps her maid.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some nymphs sell reputation; others buy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And love a market where the rates run high:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Italian music's sweet, because 'tis dear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their vanity is tickled, not their ear:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their taste would lessen, if the prices fell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Shakespeare's wretched stuff do quite as well;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Away the disenchanted fair would throng,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And own that English is their mother tongue.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To show how much our northern tastes refine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Imported nymphs our peeresses outshine;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page091">[pg 091]</span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While tradesmen starve, these Philomels are gay;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For generous lords had rather give than pay.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Behold the masquerade's fantastic scene!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The legislature join'd with Drury Lane!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When Britain calls, th' embroider'd patriots run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And serve their country—if the dance is done.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Are we not then allow'd to be polite?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yes, doubtless; but first set your notions right.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Worth, of politeness, is the needful ground;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where that is wanting, this can ne'er be found.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Triflers not e'en in trifles can excel;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis solid bodies only polish well.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Great, chosen prophet! For these latter days,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To turn a willing world from righteous ways!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Well, Heydegger, dost thou thy master serve;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Well has he seen his servant should not starve.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou to his name hast splendid temples rais'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In various forms of worship seen him prais'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gaudy devotion, like a Roman, shown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sung sweet anthems in a tongue unknown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inferior off'rings to thy god of vice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are duly paid, in fiddles, cards, and dice;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy sacrifice supreme, a hundred maids!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That solemn rite of midnight masquerades!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If maids the quite exhausted town denies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A hundred heads of cuckolds may suffice.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou smil'st, well pleas'd with the converted land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To see the fifty churches at a stand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And that thy minister may never fail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what thy hand has planted still prevail,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page092">[pg 092]</span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of minor prophets a succession sure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The propagation of thy zeal secure.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">See commons, peers, and ministers of state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In solemn council met, and deep debate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What godlike enterprise is taking birth?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What wonder opens on th' expecting earth?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis done! with loud applause the council rings!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fix'd is the fate of whores and fiddle-strings!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Tho' bold these truths, thou, muse, with truths like these,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wilt none offend, whom 'tis a praise to please:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let others flatter to be flatter'd, thou,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like just tribunals, bend an awful brow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How terrible it were to common sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To write a satire, which gave none offence!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, since from life I take the draughts you see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If men dislike them, do they censure me?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fool, and knave, 'tis glorious to offend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And godlike an attempt the world to mend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world, where lucky throws to blockheads fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Knaves know the game, and honest men pay all.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How hard for real worth to gain its price!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A man shall make his fortune in a trice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If blest with pliant, tho' but slender, sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Feign'd modesty, and real impudence:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A supple knee, smooth tongue, an easy grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A curse within, a smile upon his face;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A beauteous sister, or convenient wife,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are prizes in the lottery of life;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Genius and virtue they will soon defeat,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page093">[pg 093]</span><a name="Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lodge you in the bosom of the great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To merit, is but to provide a pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For men's refusing what you ought to gain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">May, Dodington, this maxim fail in you,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whom my presaging thoughts already view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By Walpole's conduct fir'd, and friendship grac'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still higher in your prince's favour plac'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lending, here, those awful councils aid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which you, abroad, with such success obey'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bear this from one, who holds your friendship dear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc25" id="toc25"></a><a name="pdf26" id="pdf26"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Satire IV.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">To the Right Honourable Sir Spencer Compton.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Round some fair tree th' ambitious woodbine grows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And breathes her sweets on the supporting boughs;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So sweet the verse, th' ambitious verse, should be,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(O! pardon mine) that hopes support from thee;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thee, Compton, born o'er senates to preside,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their dignity to raise, their councils guide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deep to discern, and widely to survey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And kingdoms' fates, without ambition, weigh;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of distant virtues nice extremes to blend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The crown's asserter, and the people's friend:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor dost thou scorn, amid sublimer views,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To listen to the labours of the muse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy smiles protect her, while thy talents fire,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page094">[pg 094]</span><a name="Pg094" id="Pg094" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And 'tis but half thy glory to inspire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vex'd at a public fame, so justly won,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The jealous Chremes is with spleen undone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Chremes, for airy pensions of renown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Devotes his service to the state and crown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All schemes he knows, and, knowing, all improves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' Britain's thankless, still this patriot loves:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But patriots differ; some may shed their blood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He drinks his coffee, for the public good;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Consults the sacred steam, and there foresees</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What storms, or sunshine, Providence decrees;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Knows, for each day, the weather of our fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A quid nunc is an almanack of state.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">You smile, and think this statesman void of use:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why may not time his secret worth produce?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since apes can roast the choice Castanian nut,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since steeds of genius are expert at put;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since half the senate not content can say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Geese nations save, and puppies plots betray.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What makes him model realms, and counsel kings?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An incapacity for smaller things:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Poor Chremes can't conduct his own estate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thence has undertaken Europe's fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Gehenno leaves the realm to Chremes' skill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And boldly claims a province higher still:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To raise a name, th' ambitious boy has got,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At once, a Bible, and a shoulder-knot;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deep in the secret, he looks thro' the whole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And pities the dull rogue that saves his soul;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page095">[pg 095]</span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To talk with rev'rence you must take good heed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor shock his tender reason with the creed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Howe'er well bred, in public he complies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Obliging friends alone with blasphemies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Peerage is poison, good estates are bad</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For this disease; poor rogues run seldom mad.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have not attainders brought unhop'd relief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And falling stocks quite cur'd an unbelief?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While the sun shines, Blunt talks with wondrous force;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But thunder mars small beer, and weak discourse.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such useful instruments the weather show,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Just as their mercury is high or low:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Health chiefly keeps an atheist in the dark;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A fever argues better than a Clarke:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let but the logic in his pulse decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Grecian he'll renounce, and learn to pray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While C—— mourns, with an unfeign'd zeal,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' apostate youth, who reason'd once so well.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">C——, who makes so merry with the creed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He almost thinks he disbelieves indeed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But only thinks so; to give both their due,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Satan, and he, believe, and tremble too.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of some for glory such the boundless rage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That they're the blackest scandal of their age.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Narcissus the Tartarian club disclaims;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, a free-mason, with some terror, names;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Omits no duty; nor can envy say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He miss'd, these many years, the church, or play:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He makes no noise in parliament, 'tis true;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page096">[pg 096]</span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But pays his debts, and visit, when 'tis due;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His character and gloves are ever clean,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And then, he can out-bow the bowing dean;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A smile eternal on his lip he wears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which equally the wise and worthless shares.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In gay fatigues, this most undaunted chief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Patient of idleness beyond belief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Most charitably lends the town his face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For ornament, in ev'ry public place;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As sure as cards, he to th' assembly comes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And is the furniture of drawing-rooms:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, join'd to two, he fails not—to make three:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Narcissus is the glory of his race;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For who does nothing with a better grace?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To deck my list, by nature were design'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such shining expletives of human kind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who want, while thro' blank life they dream along,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sense to be right, and passion to be wrong.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To counterpoise this hero of the mode,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some for renown are singular and odd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What other men dislike, is sure to please,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all mankind, these dear antipodes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' pride, not malice, they run counter still,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And birthdays are their days of dressing ill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Arbuthnot is a fool, and F—— a sage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">S—ly will fright you, E—— engage;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By nature streams run backward, flame descends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stones mount, and Sussex is the worst of friends;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They take their rest by day, and wake by night,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page097">[pg 097]</span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And blush, if you surprise them in the right;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If they by chance blurt out, ere well aware,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A swan is white, or Queensberry is fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His passion for absurdity's so strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He cannot bear a rival in the wrong;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' wrong the mode, comply; more sense is shown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In wearing others' follies, than your own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If what is out of fashion most you prize,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Methinks you should endeavour to be wise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what in oddness can be more sublime</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than Sloane, the foremost toyman of his time?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His nice ambition lies in curious fancies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His daughter's portion a rich shell inhances,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Ashmole's baby-house is, in his view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Britannia's golden mine, a rich Peru!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That painted coat, which Joseph never wore!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That touch'd the ruff, that touch'd Queen Bess's chin.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Since that great dearth our chronicles deplore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since that great plague that swept as many more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Was ever year unblest as this?" he'll cry,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"It has not brought us one new butterfly!"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In times that suffer such learn'd men as these,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unhappy I——y! how came you to please?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Not gaudy butterflies are Lico's game;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, in effect, his chase is much the same;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page098">[pg 098]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Warm in pursuit, he levees all the great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stanch to the foot of title and estate:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where'er their lordships go, they never find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or Lico, or their shadows, lag behind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He sets them sure, where'er their lordships run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Close at their elbows, as a morning dun;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As if their grandeur, by contagion, wrought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fame was, like a fever, to be caught:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But after seven years' dance, from place to place,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The<a id="noteref_13" name="noteref_13" href="#note_13"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">13</span></span></a> Dane is more familiar with his grace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who'd be a crutch to prop a rotten peer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or living pendant dangling at his ear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For ever whisp'ring secrets, which were blown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For months before, by trumpets, thro' the town?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who'd be a glass, with flattering grimace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still to reflect the temper of his face;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or happy pin to stick upon his sleeve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When my lord's gracious, and vouchsafes it leave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or cushion, when his heaviness shall please</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To loll, or thump it, for his better ease;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or a vile butt, for noon, or night, bespoke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When the peer rashly swears he'll club his joke?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who'd shake with laughter, tho' he could not find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His lordship's jest; or, if his nose broke wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For blessings to the gods profoundly bow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That can cry, chimney sweep, or drive a plough?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With terms like these, how mean the tribe that close!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Scarce meaner they, who terms like these, impose.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page099">[pg 099]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what's the tribe most likely to comply?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The men of ink, or ancient authors lie;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The writing tribe, who shameless auctions hold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of praise, by inch of candle to be sold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All men they flatter, but themselves the most,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With deathless fame, their everlasting boast:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For fame no cully makes so much her jest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As her old constant spark, the bard profest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Boyle shines in council, Mordaunt in the fight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pelham's magnificent; but I can write,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what to my great soul like glory dear?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till some god whispers in his tingling ear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That fame's unwholesome taken without meat.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And life is best sustain'd by what is eat:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grown lean, and wise, he curses what he writ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wishes all his wants were in his wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ay! what avails it, when his dinner's lost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That his triumphant name adorns a post?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or that his shining page (provoking fate!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Defends sirloins, which sons of dulness eat?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What foe to verse without compassion hears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What cruel prose-man can refrain from tears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When the poor muse, for less than half a crown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A prostitute on every bulk in town,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With other whores undone, tho' not in print,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Clubs credit for Geneva in the mint?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye bards! why will you sing, tho' uninspir'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye bards! why will you starve, to be admir'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Defunct by Phœbus' laws, beyond redress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why will your spectres haunt the frighted press?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bad metre, that excrescence of the head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like hair, will sprout, altho' the poet's dead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All other trades demand, verse makers beg;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A dedication is a wooden leg;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A barren Labeo, the true mumper's fashion,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Exposes borrow'd brats to move compassion.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' such myself, vile bards I discommend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay more, tho' gentle Damon is my friend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Is 't then a crime to write?"—If talent rare</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Proclaim the god, the crime is to forbear:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For some, tho' few, there are large-minded men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who watch unseen the labours of the pen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who know the muse's worth, and therefore court,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their deeds her theme, their beauty her support;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who serve, unask'd, the least pretence to wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My sole excuse, alas! for having writ.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Argyll true wit is studious to restore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Dorset smiles, if Phœbus smil'd before;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pembroke in years the long-lov'd arts admires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Henrietta like a muse inspires.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But, ah! not inspiration can obtain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That fame, which poets languish for in vain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How mad their aim, who thirst for glory, strive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To grasp, what no man can possess alive!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fame's a reversion in which men take place</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(O late reversion!) at their own decease.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This truth sagacious Lintot knows so well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He starves his authors, that their works may sell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That fame is wealth, fantastic poets cry;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That wealth is fame, another clan reply;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who know no guilt, no scandal, but in rags;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And swell in just proportion to their bags.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor only the low-born, deform'd and old,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Think glory nothing but the beams of gold;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The first young lord, which in the mall you meet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall match the veriest huncks in Lombard-street,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From rescu'd candles' ends, who rais'd a sum,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And starves to join a penny to a plumb.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A beardless miser! 'tis a guilt unknown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To former times, a scandal all our own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of ardent lovers, the true modern band</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will mortgage Celia to redeem their land.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For love, young, noble, rich, Castalio dies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Name but the fair, love swells into his eyes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Divine Monimia, thy fond fears lay down;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No rival can prevail,—but half a crown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He glories to late times to be convey'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not for the poor he has reliev'd, but made:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not such ambition his great fathers fir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When Harry conquer'd, and half France expir'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He'd be a slave, a pimp, a dog, for gain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, a dull sheriff, for his golden chain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Who'd be a slave?" the gallant colonel cries,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While love of glory sparkles from his eyes:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To deathless fame he loudly pleads his right,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Just is his title,—for he will not fight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All soldiers valour, all divines have grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As maids of honour beauty,—by their place:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, when indulging on the last campaign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His lofty terms climb o'er the hills of slain;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He gives the foes he slew, at each vain word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sweet revenge, and half absolves his sword.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A soldier should be modest as a maid:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fame is a bubble the reserv'd enjoy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who strive to grasp it, as they touch, destroy:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis the world's debt to deeds of high degree;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But if you pay yourself, the world is free.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Were there no tongue to speak them but his own,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Augustus' deeds in arms had ne'er been known.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Augustus' deeds! if that ambiguous name</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Confounds my reader, and misguides his aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such is the prince's worth, of whom I speak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Roman would not blush at the mistake.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc27" id="toc27"></a><a name="pdf28" id="pdf28"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Satire V.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">On Women.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">O fairest of creation! last and best</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Of all God's works! Creature in whom excell'd</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Whatever can to sight, or thought, be form'd!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">How art thou lost!—-—-</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Milton.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor reigns ambition in bold man alone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Soft female hearts the rude invader own:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But there, indeed, it deals in nicer things,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than routing armies, and dethroning kings:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Attend, and you discern it in the fair</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conduct a finger, or reclaim a hair;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or roll the lucid orbit of an eye;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, in full joy, elaborate a sigh.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The sex we honour, tho' their faults we blame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, thank their faults for such a fruitful theme:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A theme, fair ——! doubly kind to me,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since satirizing those is praising thee;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who wouldst not bear, too modestly refin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A panegyric of a grosser kind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Britannia's daughters, much more fair than nice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Too fond of admiration, lose their price;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Worn in the public eye, give cheap delight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To throngs, and tarnish to the sated sight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As unreserv'd, and beauteous, as the sun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through every sign of vanity they run;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Assemblies, parks, coarse feasts in city-halls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lectures, and trials, plays, committees, balls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wells, bedlams, executions, Smithfield scenes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fortune-tellers' caves, and lions' dens,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Taverns, exchanges, bridewells, drawing-rooms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Installments, pillories, coronations, tombs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tumblers, and funerals, puppet-shows, reviews,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sales, races, rabbits, (and still stranger!) pews.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Clarinda's bosom burns, but burns for fame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And love lies vanquished in a nobler flame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Warm gleams of hope she, now, dispenses; then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like April suns, dives into clouds again:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With all her lustre, now, her lover warms;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, out of ostentation, hides her charms:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis, next, her pleasure sweetly to complain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to be taken with a sudden pain;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, she starts up, all ecstasy and bliss,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And is, sweet soul! just as sincere in this:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O how she rolls her charming eyes in spite!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And looks delightfully with all her might!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, like our heroes, much more brave than wise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She conquers for the triumph, not the prize.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Zara resembles Ætna crown'd with snows;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without she freezes, and within she glows:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the vain converse of the world retir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She reads the psalms and chapters for the day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In —— Cleopatra, or the last new play.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus gloomy Zara, with a solemn grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deceives mankind, and hides behind her face.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor far beneath her in renown, is she,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, through good breeding, is ill company;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose manners will not let her larum cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who thinks you are unhappy, when at peace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To find you news, who racks her subtle head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And vows—that her great-grandfather is dead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A dearth of words a woman need not fear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But 'tis a task indeed to learn—to hear:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In that the skill of conversation lies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That shows, or makes, you both polite and wise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Xantippe cries, "Let nymphs, who nought can say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be lost in silence, and resign the day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And let the guilty wife her guilt confess,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By tame behaviour, and a soft address;"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through virtue, she refuses to comply</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With all the dictates of humanity;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through wisdom, she refuses to submit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To wisdom's rules, and raves to prove her wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, her unblemish'd honour to maintain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rejects her husband's kindness with disdain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But if, by chance, an ill-adapted word</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Drops from the lip of her unwary lord,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her darling china, in a whirlwind sent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Just intimates the lady's discontent.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Wine may indeed excite the meekest dame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But keen Xantippe, scorning borrow'd flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can vent her thunders, and her lightnings play,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er cooling gruel, and composing tea:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor rests by night, but, more sincere than nice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She shakes the curtains with her kind advice:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Doubly, like echo, sound is her delight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the last word is her eternal right.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is't not enough, plagues, wars, and famines rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To lash our crimes, but must our wives be wise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Famine, plague, war, and an unnumber'd throng</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of guilt-avenging ills, to man belong:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What black, what ceaseless cares besiege our state!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What strokes we feel from fancy, and from fate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If fate forbears us, fancy strikes the blow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We make misfortune; suicides in woe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Superfluous aid! unnecessary skill!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is nature backward to torment, or kill?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How oft the noon, how oft the midnight, bell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(That iron tongue of death!) with solemn knell,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On folly's errands as we vainly roam,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Knocks at our hearts, and finds our thoughts from home!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Few know so many friends alive, as dead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet, as immortal, in our up-hill chase</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We press coy fortune with unslacken'd pace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our ardent labours for the toys we seek,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Join night to day, and Sunday to the week:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our very joys are anxious, and expire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Between satiety and fierce desire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now what reward for all this grief and toil?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But one; a female friend's endearing smile;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, in life's tempest, the sad sailor's calm.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How have I seen a gentle nymph draw nigh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Peace in her air, persuasion in her eye;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Victorious tenderness! it all o'ercame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Husbands look'd mild, and savages grew tame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The Sylvan race our active nymphs pursue;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man is not all the game they have in view:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In woods and fields their glory they complete;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their Master Betty leaps a five-barr'd gate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While fair Miss Charles to toilets is confin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor rashly tempts the barb'rous sun and wind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some nymphs affect a more heroic breed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And volt from hunters to the manag'd steed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Command his prancings with a martial air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Fobert has the forming of the fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More than one steed must Delia's empire feel,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who sits triumphant o'er the flying wheel;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And as she guides it thro' th' admiring throng,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With what an air she smacks the silken thong!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Graceful as John, she moderates the reins,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And whistles sweet her diuretic strains;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sesostris like, such charioteers as these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May drive six harness'd monarchs, if they please:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They drive, row, run, with love of glory smit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Leap, swim, shoot flying, and pronounce on wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O'er the belle-lettre lovely Daphne reigns;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Again the god Apollo wears her chains:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With legs toss'd high, on her sophee she sits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vouchsafing audience to contending wits:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of each performance she's the final test;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One act read o'er, she prophesies the rest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And then, pronouncing with decisive air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fully convinces all the town—she's fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Had lovely Daphne Hecatessa's face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How would her elegance of taste decrease!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some ladies' judgment in their features lies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all their genius sparkles from their eyes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"But hold," she cries, "lampooner! have a care;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Must I want common sense, because I'm fair?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O no: see Stella; her eyes shine as bright</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As if her tongue was never in the right;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet what real learning, judgment, fire!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She seems inspir'd, and can herself inspire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How then (if malice rul'd not all the fair)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could Daphne publish, and could she forbear?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We grant that beauty is no bar to sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor is't a sanction for impertinence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sempronia lik'd her man; and well she might;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The youth in person, and in parts, was bright;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Possess'd of every virtue, grace, and art,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That claims just empire o'er the female heart:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He met her passion, all her sighs return'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, in full rage of youthful ardour, burn'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Large his possessions, and beyond her own:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their bliss the theme, and envy of the town:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The day was fix'd, when, with one acre more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In stepp'd deform'd, debauch'd, diseas'd threescore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fatal sequel I, through shame, forbear:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of pride, and av'rice, who can cure the fair?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Man's rich with little, were his judgment true;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nature is frugal, and her wants are few;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those few wants answer'd, bring sincere delights;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But fools create themselves new appetites:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fancy, and pride, seek things at vast expense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which relish not to reason, nor to sense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When surfeit, or unthankfulness, destroys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In nature's narrow sphere, our solid joys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In fancy's airy land of noise and show,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On joys too thin to keep the soul alive.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lemira's sick; make haste; the doctor call:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He comes; but where's his patient? At the ball.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The doctor stares; her woman curtsies low,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cries, "My lady, Sir, is always so:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Diversions put her maladies to flight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True, she can't stand, but she can dance all night:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I've known my lady (for she loves a tune)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For fevers take an opera in June:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, tho' perhaps you'll think the practice bold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With cholics, breakfasts of green fruit agree;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With indigestions, supper just at three."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A strange alternative, replies Sir Hans,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Must women have a doctor, or a dance?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though sick to death, abroad they safely roam,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But droop and die, in perfect health, at home:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For want—but not of health, are ladies ill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tickets cure beyond the doctor's pill.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Alas, my heart! how languishingly fair</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yon lady lolls! with what a tender air!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pale as a young dramatic author, when,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er darling lines, fell Cibber waves his pen.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is her lord angry, or has<a id="noteref_14" name="noteref_14" href="#note_14"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">14</span></span></a> Veny chid?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dead is her father, or the mask forbid?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Late sitting up has turn'd her roses white."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why went she not to bed? "Because 'twas night."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did she then dance, or play? "Nor this, nor that."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Well, night soon steals away in pleasing chat.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"No, all alone, her prayers she rather chose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than be that wretch to sleep till morning rose."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This her pride covets, this her health denies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her soul is silly, but her body's wise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Others, with curious arts, dim charms revive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And triumph in the bloom of fifty-five.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You, in the morning, a fair nymph invite;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To keep her word, a brown one comes at night:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Next day she shines in glossy black; and then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Revolves into her native red again:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like a dove's neck, she shifts her transient charms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And is her own dear rival in your arms.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But one admirer has the painted lass;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor finds that one, but in her looking-glass:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet Laura's beautiful to such excess,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That all her art scarce makes her please us less.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To deck the female cheek, he only knows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who paints less fair the lily, and the rose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How gay they smile! Such blessings nature pours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'erstock'd mankind enjoy but half her stores:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In distant wilds, by human eyes unseen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She rears her flowers, and spreads her velvet green:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And waste their music on the savage race.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is nature then a niggard of her bliss?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Repine we guiltless in a world like this?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But our lewd tastes her lawful charms refuse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And painted art's depraved allurements choose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such Fulvia's passion for the town; fresh air</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(An odd effect!) gives vapours to the fair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Green fields, and shady groves, and crystal springs,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And larks, and nightingales, are odious things;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But smoke, and dust, and noise, and crowds, delight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to be press'd to death, transports her quite:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where silver riv'lets play through flow'ry meads,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And woodbines give their sweets, and limes their shades,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Black kennels' absent odours she regrets,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stops her nose at beds of violets.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is stormy life preferr'd to the serene?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or is the public to the private scene?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Retir'd, we tread a smooth and open way;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through briers and brambles in the world we stray;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stiff opposition, and perplex'd debate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thorny care, and rank and stinging hate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which choke our passage, our career control,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wound the firmest temper of our soul.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O sacred solitude! divine retreat!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Choice of the prudent! envy of the great!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The genuine offspring of her lov'd embrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Strangers on earth!) are innocence and peace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There, from the ways of men laid safe ashore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We smile to hear the distant tempest roar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There, bless'd with health, with business unperplex'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This life we relish, and ensure the next;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There too the muses sport; these numbers free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pierian Eastbury! I owe to thee.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There sport the muses; but not there alone:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their sacred force Amelia feels in town.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nought but a genius can a genius fit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Both wits! though miracles are said to cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Three days, three wondrous days! they liv'd in peace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With the fourth sun a warm dispute arose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On Durfey's poesy, and Bunyan's prose:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The learned war both wage with equal force,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the fifth morn concluded the divorce.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Phœbe, though she possesses nothing less,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is proud of being rich in happiness:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Laboriously pursues delusive toys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Content with pains, since they're reputed joys.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With what well-acted transport will she say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Well, sure, we were so happy yesterday!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And then that charming party for to-morrow!"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though, well she knows, 'twill languish into sorrow:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But she dares never boast the present hour;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So gross that cheat, it is beyond her power:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For such is or our weakness, or our curse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or rather such our crime, which still is worse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The present moment, like a wife, we shun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ne'er enjoy, because it is our own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still it eludes us, and it glitters still:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What is it, but rank poison in your veins?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As Flavia in her glass an angel spies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tells her, while she surveys a face so fine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There's no satiety of charms divine:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence, if her lover yawns, all chang'd appears</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her temper, and she melts (sweet soul!) in tears:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She, fond and young, last week, her wish enjoy'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In soft amusement all the night employ'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The morning came, when Strephon, waking, found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Surprising sight!) his bride in sorrow drown'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"What miracle," says Strephon, "makes thee weep?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Ah, barb'rous man!" she cries, "how could you——sleep?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Men love a mistress, as they love a feast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How grateful one to touch, and one to taste!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet sure there is a certain time of day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We wish our mistress, and our meat, away:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But soon the sated appetites return,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Again our stomachs crave, our bosoms burn:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Eternal love let man, then, never swear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let women never triumph, nor despair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor praise, nor blame, too much, the warm, or chill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hunger and love are foreign to the will.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">There is indeed a passion more refin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For those few nymphs whose charms are of the mind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But not of that unfashionable set</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is Phyllis; Phyllis and her Damon met.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Eternal love exactly hits her taste;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Phyllis demands eternal love at least.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Embracing Phyllis with soft smiling eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Eternal love I vow, the swain replies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But say, my all, my mistress, and my friend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What day next week th' eternity shall end?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some nymphs prefer astronomy to love:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Elope from mortal man, and range above.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fair philosopher to Rowley flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where, in a box, the whole creation lies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She sees the planets in their turns advance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And scorns, Poitier, thy sublunary dance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of Desagulier she bespeaks fresh air;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Whiston has engagements with the fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What vain experiments Sophronia tries!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis not in air-pumps the gay colonel dies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But though to-day this rage of science reigns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(O fickle sex!) soon end her learned pains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lo! Pug from Jupiter her heart has got,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Turns out the stars, and Newton is a sot.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To——turn; she never took the height</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of Saturn, yet is ever in the right.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She strikes each point with native force of mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While puzzled learning blunders far behind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Graceful to sight, and elegant to thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The great are vanquish'd, and the wise are taught.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her breeding finish'd, and her temper sweet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When serious, easy; and when gay, discreet;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In glittering scenes, o'er her own heart, sincere;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In crowds, collected; and in courts, severe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sincere, and warm, with zeal well understood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She takes a noble pride in doing good;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet not superior to her sex's cares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mode she fixes by the gown she wears;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of silks and china she's the last appeal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In these great points she leads the commonweal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And if disputes of empire rise between</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mechlin the queen of lace, and colberteen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis doubt! 'tis darkness! till suspended fate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Assumes her nod, to close the grand debate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When such her mind, why will the fair express</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their emulation only in their dress?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But, oh! the nymph that mounts above the skies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, gratis, clears religious mysteries,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Resolv'd the church's welfare to ensure,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And make her family a sine-cure:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The theme divine at cards she'll not forget,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But takes in texts of Scripture at picquet;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In those licentious meetings acts the prude,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thanks her Maker that her cards are good.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What angels would those be, who thus excel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In theologies, could they sew as well!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet why should not the fair her text pursue?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can she more decently the doctor woo?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis hard, too, she who makes no use but chat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of her religion, should be barr'd in that.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Isaac, a brother of the canting strain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When he has knock'd at his own skull in vain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To beauteous Marcia often will repair</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With a dark text, to light it at the fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O how his pious soul exults to find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such love for holy men in woman-kind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Charm'd with her learning, with what rapture he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hangs on her bloom, like an industrious bee!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hums round about her, and with all his power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Extracts sweet wisdom from so fair a flower!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The young and gay declining, Appia flies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At nobler game, the mighty and the wise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By nature more an eagle than a dove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She impiously prefers the world to love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can wealth give happiness? look round, and see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What gay distress! what splendid misery!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whatever fortune lavishly can pour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mind annihilates, and calls for more!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wealth is a cheat; believe not what it says;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like any lord it promises—and pays.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How will the miser startle, to be told</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of such a wonder, as insolvent gold!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What nature wants has an intrinsic weight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All more, is but the fashion of the plate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which, for one moment, charms the fickle view;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It charms us now; anon we cast anew;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To some fresh birth of fancy more inclin'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then wed not acres, but a noble mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Mistaken lovers, who make worth their care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And think accomplishments will win the fair:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fair, 'tis true, by genius should be won,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As flow'rs unfold their beauties to the sun;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet in female scales a fop outweighs,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wit must wear the willow and the bays.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nought shines so bright in vain Liberia's eye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As riot, impudence, and perfidy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The youth of fire, that has drunk deep, and play'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And kill'd his man, and triumph'd o'er his maid;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For him, as yet unhang'd, she spreads her charms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Snatches the dear destroyer to her arms;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And amply gives (though treated long amiss)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man of merit his revenge in this,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If you resent, and wish a woman ill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But turn her o'er one moment to her will.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The languid lady next appears in state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who was not born to carry her own weight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She lolls, reels, staggers, till some foreign aid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To her own stature lifts the feeble maid.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then, if ordain'd to so severe a doom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She, by just stages, journeys round the room:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, knowing her own weakness, she despairs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To scale the Alps—that is, ascend the stairs.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My fan! let others say, who laugh at toil;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fan! hood! glove! scarf! is her laconic style;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And that is spoke with such a dying fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That Betty rather sees, than hears the call:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The motion of her lips, and meaning eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Piece out th' idea her faint words deny.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O listen with attention most profound!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her voice is but the shadow of a sound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And help! oh help! her spirits are so dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One hand scarce lifts the other to her head.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If, there, a stubborn pin it triumphs o'er,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name="Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She pants! she sinks away! and is more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let the robust and the gigantic carve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Life is not worth so much, she'd rather starve;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But chew she must herself; ah cruel fate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That Rosalinda can't by proxy eat.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An antidote in female caprice lies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Kind heaven!) against the poison of their eyes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thalestris triumphs in a manly mien;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Loud is her accent, and her phrase obscene.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In fair and open dealing where's the shame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What nature dares to give, she dares to name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This honest fellow is sincere and plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And justly gives the jealous husband pain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Vain is the task to petticoats assign'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If wanton language shows a naked mind.)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And now and then, to grace her eloquence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An oath supplies the vacancies of sense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hark! the shrill notes transpierce the yielding air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And teach the neighb'ring echoes how to swear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By Jove, is faint, and for the simple swain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She, on the Christian system, is profane.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But though the volley rattles in your ear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Believe her dress, she's not a grenadier.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If thunder's awful, how much more our dread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When Jove deputes a lady in his stead?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A lady! pardon my mistaken pen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A shameless woman is the worst of men.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Few to good breeding make a just pretence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Good breeding is the blossom of good sense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The last result of an accomplish'd mind,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With outward grace, the body's virtue, join'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A violated decency now reigns;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nymphs for failings take peculiar pains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With Chinese painters modern toasts agree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The point they aim at is deformity:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They throw their persons with a hoyden air</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Across the room, and toss into the chair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So far their commerce with mankind is gone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They, for our manners, have exchang'd their own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The modest look, the castigated grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The gentle movement, and slow measur'd pace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For which her lovers died, her parents pray'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are indecorums with the modern maid.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stiff forms are bad; but let not worse intrude,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor conquer art and nature, to be rude.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Modern good-breeding carry to its height,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lady D——'s self will be polite.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye rising fair! ye bloom of Britain's isle!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When high-born Anna, with a soften'd smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Leads on your train, and sparkles at your head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What seems most hard, is, not to be well bred.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her bright example with success pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all, but adoration, is your due.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But adoration! give me something more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cries Lyce, on the borders of threescore:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nought treads so silent as the foot of time;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis greatly wise to know, before we're told,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The melancholy news, that we grow old.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Autumnal Lyce carries in her face</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Memento mori to each public place.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O how your beating breast a mistress warms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who looks through spectacles to see your charms!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While rival undertakers hover round,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with his spade the sexton marks the ground,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Intent not on her own, but others' doom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In vain the cock has summon'd sprites away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She walks at noon, and blasts the bloom of day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gay rainbow silks her mellow charms infold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nought of Lyce but herself is old.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her grizzled locks assume a smirking grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And art has levell'd her deep-furrow'd face.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her strange demand no mortal can approve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We'll ask her blessing, but can't ask her love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She grants, indeed, a lady may decline</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(All ladies but herself) at ninety-nine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O how unlike her is the sacred age</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of prudent Portia! her gray hairs engage;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose thoughts are suited to her life's decline:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Virtue's the paint that can with wrinkles shine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That, and that only, can old age sustain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which yet all wish, nor know they wish for pain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not num'rous are our joys, when life is new;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yearly some are falling of the few;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But when we conquer life's meridian stage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And downward tend into the vale of age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They drop apace; by nature some decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And some the blasts of fortune sweep away;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till naked quite of happiness, aloud</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We call for death, and shelter in a shroud.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where's Portia now?—But Portia left behind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Two lovely copies of her form and mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What heart untouch'd their early grief can view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like blushing rose-buds dipp'd in morning dew?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who into shelter takes their tender bloom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And forms their minds to flee from ills to come?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mind, when turn'd adrift, no rules to guide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Drives at the mercy of the wind and tide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fancy and passion toss it to and fro;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awhile torment, and then quite sink in woe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye beauteous orphans, since in silent dust</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your best example lies, my precepts trust.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Life swarms with ills; the boldest are afraid;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where then is safety for a tender maid?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When kind, most cruel; when oblig'd the most,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The least obliging; and by favours lost.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cruel by nature, they for kindness hate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And scorn you for those ills themselves create.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If on your fame your sex a blot has thrown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twill ever stick, through malice of your own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Most hard! in pleasing your chief glory lies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet from pleasing your chief dangers rise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then please the best; and know, for men of sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your strongest charms are native innocence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Art on the mind, like paint upon the face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fright him, that's worth your love, from your embrace.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In simple manners all the secret lies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be kind and virtuous, you'll be blest and wise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vain show and noise intoxicate the brain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Begin with giddiness, and end in pain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Affect not empty fame, and idle praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which, all those wretches I describe, betrays.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your sex's glory 'tis, to shine unknown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all applause, be fondest of your own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beware the fever of the mind! that thirst</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With which the age is eminently curst:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To drink of pleasure, but inflames desire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And abstinence alone can quench the fire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Take pain from life, and terror from the tomb;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give peace in hand; and promise bliss to come.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc29" id="toc29"></a><a name="pdf30" id="pdf30"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Satire VI.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">On Women.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Germain.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Interdum tamen et tollit comœdia vocem.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Hor.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I sought a patroness, but sought in vain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Apollo whisper'd in my ear—"Germain."—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I know her not.—"Your reason's somewhat odd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who knows his patron, now?" replied the god.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Men write, to me, and to the world, unknown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then steal great names, to shield them from the town.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Detected worth, like beauty disarray'd,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To covert flies, of praise itself afraid:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Should she refuse to patronize your lays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In vengeance write a volume in her praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor think it hard so great a length to run;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When such the theme, 'twill easily be done."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye fair! to draw your excellence at length,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Exceeds the narrow bounds of human strength;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You, here, in miniature your picture see;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor hope from Zincks more justice than from me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My portraits grace your mind, as his your side;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His portraits will inflame, mine quench, your pride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He's dear, you frugal; choose my cheaper lay;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And be your reformation all my pay.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Lavinia is polite, but not profane;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To church as constant as to Drury Lane.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She decently, in form, pays heaven its due;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And makes a civil visit to her pew.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her lifted fan, to give a solemn air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conceals her face, which passes for a prayer:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Curtsies to curtsies, then, with grace, succeed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not one the fair omits, but at the creed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or if she joins the service, 'tis to speak;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' dreadful silence the pent heart might break;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Untaught to bear it, women talk away</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To God himself, and fondly think they pray.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But sweet their accent, and their air refin'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For they're before their Maker—and mankind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When ladies once are proud of praying well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Satan himself will toll the parish bell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Acquainted with the world, and quite well bred,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Drusa receives her visitants in bed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, chaste as ice, this Vesta, to defy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The very blackest tongue of calumny,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When from the sheets her lovely form she lifts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She begs you just would turn you, while she shifts.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Those charms are greatest which decline the sight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That makes the banquet poignant and polite.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There is no woman, where there's no reserve;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And 'tis on plenty your poor lovers starve.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But with a modern fair, meridian merit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is a fierce thing, they call a nymph of spirit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mark well the rollings of her flaming eye;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tread on tiptoe, if you dare draw nigh.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Or if you take a lion by the beard,<a id="noteref_15" name="noteref_15" href="#note_15"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">15</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or dare defy the fell Hyrcanian pard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or arm'd rhinoceros, or rough Russian bear,"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">First make your will, and then converse with her.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This lady glories in profuse expense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thinks distraction is magnificence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To beggar her gallant, is some delight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To be more fatal still, is exquisite;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Had ever nymph such reason to be glad?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In duel fell two lovers; one run mad.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her foes their honest execrations pour;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her lovers only should detest her more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Flavia is constant to her old gallant,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And generously supports him in his want;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But marriage is a fetter, is a snare,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A hell, no lady so polite can bear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She's faithful, she's observant, and with pains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her angel brood of bastards she maintains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor least advantage has the fair to plead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But that of guilt, above the marriage-bed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Amasia hates a prude, and scorns restraint;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whate'er she is, she'll not appear a saint:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her soul superior flies formality;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So gay her air, her conduct is so free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some might suspect the nymph not over good—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor would they be mistaken, if they should.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Unmarried Abra puts on formal airs;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her cushion's threadbare with her constant prayers.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her only grief is, that she cannot be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At once engag'd in prayer and charity.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And this, to do her justice, must be said,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Who would not think that Abra was a maid?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some ladies are too beauteous to be wed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For where's the man that's worthy of their bed?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If no disease reduce her pride before,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lavinia will be ravish'd at threescore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then she submits to venture in the dark;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nothing now is wanting—but her spark.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Lucia thinks happiness consists in state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She weds an idiot, but she eats in plate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The goods of fortune, which her soul possess,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are but the ground of unmade happiness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The rude material: wisdom add to this,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wisdom, the sole artificer of bliss;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She from herself, if so compell'd by need,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of thin content can draw the subtle thread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But (no detraction to her sacred skill)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If she can work in gold, 'tis better still.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If Tullia had been blest with half her sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">None could too much admire her excellence:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But since she can make error shine so bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She thinks it vulgar to defend the right.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With understanding she is quite o'errun;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And by too great accomplishments undone:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For ever most divinely in the wrong.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Naked in nothing should a woman be;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But veil her very wit with modesty:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let man discover, let not her display,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But yield her charms of mind with sweet delay.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For pleasure form'd, perversely some believe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To make themselves important, men must grieve.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lesbia the fair, to fire her jealous lord,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pretends, the fop she laughs at, is ador'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In vain she's proud of secret innocence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fact she fains were scarce a worse offence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Mira, endow'd with every charm to bless,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has no design, but on her husband's peace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He lov'd her much; and greatly was he mov'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At small inquietudes in her he lov'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"How charming this!"—The pleasure lasted long;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now every day the fits come thick and strong:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At last he found the charmer only feign'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And was diverted when he should be pain'd.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What greater vengeance had the gods in store?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How tedious life, now she can plague no more!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She tries a thousand arts; but none succeed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She's forc'd a fever to procure indeed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus strictly prov'd this virtuous, loving wife,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her husband's pain was dearer than her life.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Anxious Melania rises to my view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who never thinks her lover pays his due:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Visit, present, treat, flatter, and adore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her majesty, to-morrow, calls for more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His wounded ears complaints eternal fill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As unoil'd hinges, querulously shrill.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"You went last night with Celia to the ball."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You prove it false. "Not go! that's worst of all."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing can please her, nothing not inflame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And arrant contradictions are the same.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her lover must be sad, to please her spleen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His mirth is an inexpiable sin:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For of all rivals that can pain her breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There's one, that wounds far deeper than the rest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To wreck her quiet, the most dreadful shelf</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is if her lover dares enjoy himself.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And this, because she's exquisitely fair:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Should I dispute her beauty, how she'd stare!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How would Melania be surpris'd to hear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She's quite deform'd! And yet the case is clear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's female beauty, but an air divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They, like the sun, irradiate all between;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The body charms because the soul is seen.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence, men are often captives of a face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They know not why, of no peculiar grace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some forms, tho' bright, no mortal man can bear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some, none resist, tho' not exceeding fair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Aspasia's highly born, and nicely bred,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of taste refin'd, in life and manners read;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet reaps no fruit from her superior sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But to be teaz'd by her own excellence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Folks are so awkward! things so unpolite!"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She's elegantly pain'd from morn till night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her delicacy's shock'd where'er she goes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each creature's imperfections are her woes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven by its favour has the fair distrest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And pour'd such blessings—that she can't be blest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ah! why so vain, though blooming in thy spring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou shining, frail, ador'd, and wretched thing?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Old age will come; disease may come before;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fifteen is full as mortal as threescore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy fortune, and thy charms, may soon decay:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But grant these fugitives prolong their stay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their basis totters, their foundation shakes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Life, that supports them, in a moment breaks;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then wrought into the soul let virtues shine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The ground eternal, as the work divine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Julia's a manager; she's born for rule;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And knows her wiser husband is a fool;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Assemblies holds, and spins the subtle thread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That guides the lover to his fair one's bed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For difficult amours can smooth the way,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tender letters dictate, or convey.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But if depriv'd of such important cares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her wisdom condescends to less affairs.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor take her tea without a stratagem;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Presides o'er trifles with a serious face;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Important by the virtue of grimace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ladies supreme among amusements reign;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By nature born to soothe, and entertain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their prudence in a share of folly lies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why will they be so weak, as to be wise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Syrena is for ever in extremes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with a vengeance she commends, or blames.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conscious of her discernment, which is good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She strains too much to make it understood.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her judgment just, her sentence is too strong;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Because she's right, she's ever in the wrong.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Brunetta's wise in actions great, and rare;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But scorns on trifles to bestow her care.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus ev'ry hour Brunetta is to blame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Because th' occasion is beneath her aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And trifles life. Your care to trifles give,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or you may die, before you truly live.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Go breakfast with Alicia, there you'll see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Simplex munditiis, to the last degree:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unlac'd her stays, her night-gown is untied,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what she has of head-dress is aside.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unwash'd her hands, and much besnuff'd her face.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A nail uncut, and head uncomb'd, she loves;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And would draw on jack-boots, as soon as gloves.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gloves by Queen Bess's maidens might be miss'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her blessed eyes ne'er saw a female fist.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lovers, beware! to wound how can she fail</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With scarlet finger, and long jetty nail?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For Harvey the first wit she cannot be,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor, cruel Richmond, the first toast for thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since full each other station of renown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Women were made to give our eyes delight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A female sloven is an odious sight.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Fair Isabella is so fond of fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That her dear self is her eternal theme;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through hopes of contradiction, oft she'll say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Methinks I look so wretchedly to-day!"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When most the world applauds you, most beware;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis often less a blessing than a snare.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Distrust mankind; with your own heart confer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dread even there to find a flatterer.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The breath of others raises our renown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our own as surely blows the pageant down.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Take up no more than you by worth can claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lest soon you prove a bankrupt in your fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But own I must, in this perverted age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who most deserve, can't always most engage.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So far is worth from making glory sure,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It often hinders what it should procure.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whom praise we most? The virtuous, brave, and wise?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No; wretches, whom, in secret, we despise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And who so blind, as not to see the cause?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No rivals rais'd by such discreet applause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet, of credit it lays in a store,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By which our spleen may wound true worth the more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ladies there are who think one crime is all:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can women, then, no way but backward fall?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So sweet is that one crime they don't pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To pay its loss, they think all others few.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who hold that crime so dear, must never claim</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of injur'd modesty the sacred name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But Clio thus: "What! railing without end?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mean task! how much more gen'rous to commend!"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yes, to commend as you are wont to do,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My kind instructor, and example too.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Daphnis," says Clio, "has a charming eye:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What pity 'tis her shoulder is awry!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Aspasia's shape indeed—but then her air—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man has parts who finds destruction there.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Almeria's wit has something that's divine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wit's enough—how few in all things shine!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Selina serves her friends, relieves the poor—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who was it said Selina's near threescore?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At Lucia's match I from my soul rejoice;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world congratulates so wise a choice;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His lordship's rent-roll is exceeding great—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But mortgages will sap the best estate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Sherley's form might cherubims appear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But then—she has a freckle on her ear."</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without a but, Hortensia she commends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The first of women, and the best of friends;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Owns her in person, wit, fame, virtue, bright:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But how comes this to pass?—She died last night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus nymphs commend, who yet at satire rail:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Indeed that's needless, if such praise prevail.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And whence such praise? Our virulence is thrown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On others' fame, thro' fondness for our own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of rank and riches proud, Cleora frowns;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For are not coronets akin to crowns?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her greedy eye, and her sublime address,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The height of avarice and pride confess.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You seek perfections worthy of her rank;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Go, seek for her perfections at the bank.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By wealth unquench'd, by reason uncontrol'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For ever burns her sacred thirst of gold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As fond of five-pence, as the veriest cit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And quite as much detested as a wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To make our fortune, than our happiness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That happiness which great ones often see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With rage and wonder, in a low degree;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Themselves unblest. The poor are only poor;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what are they who droop amid their store?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing is meaner than a wretch of state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The happy only are the truly great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Peasants enjoy like appetites with kings;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And those best satisfied with cheapest things.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could both our Indies buy but one new sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our envy would be due to large expense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since not, those pomps which to the great belong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are but poor arts to mark them from the throng.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See how they beg an alms of flattery!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They languish! oh support them with a lie!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A decent competence we fully taste;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It strikes our sense, and gives a constant feast:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More, we perceive by dint of thought alone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The rich must labor to possess their own,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To feel their great abundance; and request</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their humble friends to help them to be blest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To see their treasures, hear their glory told,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And aid the wretched impotence of gold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But some, great souls! and touch'd with warmth divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give gold a price, and teach its beams to shine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All hoarded treasures they repute a load;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor think their wealth their own, till well bestow'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grand reservoirs of public happiness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through secret streams diffusively they bless;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, while their bounties glide conceal'd from view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Relieve our wants, and spare our blushes too.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But satire is my task; and these destroy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her gloomy province, and malignant joy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Help me, ye misers! help me to complain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And blast our common enemy, Germain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But our invectives must despair success;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For next to praise, she values nothing less.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What picture's yonder, loosen'd from its frame?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or is't Asturia? that affected dame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The brightest forms, through affectation, fade</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To strange new things, which nature never made.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Frown not, ye fair! so much your sex we prize,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We hate those arts that take you from our eyes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Albucinda's native grace is seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What you, who labour at perfection, mean.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Short is the rule, and to be learnt with ease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Retain your gentle selves, and you must please.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here might I sing of Memmia's mincing mien,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the movements of the soft machine:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How two red lips affected zephyrs blow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To cool the Bohea, and inflame the beau:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While one white finger, and a thumb, conspire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To lift the cup, and make the world admire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Tea! how I tremble at thy fatal stream!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As Lethe, dreadful to the love of fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What devastations on thy banks are seen!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What shades of mighty names which once have been!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An hecatomb of characters supplies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy painted altars' daily sacrifice.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">H——, P——, B——, aspers'd by thee, decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As grains of finest sugars melt away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And recommend thee more to mortal taste:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Scandal's the sweet'ner of a female feast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But this inhuman triumph shall decline,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thy revolting naiads call for wine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Spirits no longer shall serve under thee;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But reign in thy own cup, exploded tea!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Citronia's nose declares thy ruin nigh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And who dares give Citronia's nose the lie?<a id="noteref_16" name="noteref_16" href="#note_16"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">16</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The ladies long at men of drink exclaim'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what impair'd both health and virtue, blam'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At length, to rescue man, the generous lass</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stole from her consort the pernicious glass;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As glorious as the British queen renown'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who suck'd the poison from her husband's wound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor to the glass alone are nymphs inclin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But every bolder vice of bold mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O Juvenal! for thy severer rage!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To lash the ranker follies of our age.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are there, among the females of our isle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such faults, at which it is a fault to smile?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There are. Vice, once by modest nature chain'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And legal ties, expatiates unrestrain'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without thin decency held up to view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Naked she stalks o'er law and gospel too.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our matrons lead such exemplary lives,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men sigh in vain for none, but for their wives;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who marry to be free, to range the more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wed one man to wanton with a score.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Abroad too kind, at home 'tis steadfast hate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And one eternal tempest of debate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What foul eruptions, from a look most meek!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What thunders bursting, from a dimpled cheek!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their passions bear it with a lofty hand!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But then, their reason is at due command.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is there whom you detest, and seek his life?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Trust no soul with the secret—but his wife.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wives wonder that their conduct I condemn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ask, what kindred is a spouse to them?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What swarms of am'rous grandmothers I see!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And misses, ancient in iniquity?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What blasting whispers, and what loud declaiming!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What lying, drinking, bawding, swearing, gaming!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Friendship so cold, such warm incontinence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such griping av'rice, such profuse expense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such dead devotion, such a zeal for crimes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such licens'd ill, such masquerading times;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such venal faith, such misapplied applause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such flatter'd guilt, and such inverted laws;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such dissolution through the whole I find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis not a world, but chaos of mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Since Sundays have no balls, the well-dress'd belle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shines in the pew, but smiles to hear of hell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And casts an eye of sweet disdain on all,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who listens less to Collins than St. Paul.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Atheists have been but rare; since nature's birth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till now, she-atheists ne'er appear'd on earth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye men of deep researches, say, whence springs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This daring character, in timorous things?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who start at feathers, from an insect fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A match for nothing—but the Deity.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But, not to wrong the fair, the muse must own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In this pursuit they court not fame alone;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But join to that a more substantial view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"From thinking free, to be free agents too."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">They strive with their own hearts, and keep them down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In complaisance to all the fools in town.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O how they tremble at the name of prude!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And die with shame at thought of being good!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For what will Artimis, the rich and gay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What will the wits, that is, the coxcombs say?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They heaven defy, to earth's vile dregs a slave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' cowardice, most execrably brave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With our own judgments durst we to comply,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In virtue should we live, in glory die.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rise then, my muse, in honest fury rise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They dread a satire, who defy the skies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Atheists are few: most nymphs a Godhead own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nothing but his attributes dethrone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From Atheists far, they steadfastly believe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">God is, and is Almighty——to forgive.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His other excellence they'll not dispute;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But mercy, sure, is his chief attribute.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall pleasures of a short duration chain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A lady's soul in everlasting pain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will the great Author us poor worms destroy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For now and then a sip of transient joy?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No, he's for ever in a smiling mood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He's like themselves, or how could he be good?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And they blaspheme, who blacker schemes suppose.—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Devoutly, thus, Jehovah they depose,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pure! the just! and set up, in his stead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A deity, that's perfectly well bred.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Dear Tillotson! be sure the best of men;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor thought he more, than thought great Origen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though once upon a time he misbehav'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Poor Satan! doubtless, he'll at length be sav'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let priests do something for their one in ten;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It is their trade; so far they're honest men.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let them cant on, since they have got the knack,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dress their notions, like themselves, in black;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fright us, with terrors of a world unknown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From joys of this, to keep them all their own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of earth's fair fruits, indeed, they claim a fee;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But then they leave our untith'd virtue free.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Virtue's a pretty thing to make a show:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did ever mortal write like Rochefocaut?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus pleads the devil's fair apologist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, pleading, safely enters on his list.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let angel-forms angelic truths maintain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nature disjoins the beauteous and profane.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For what's true beauty, but fair virtue's face?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Virtue made visible in outward grace?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She, then, that's haunted with an impious mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The more she charms, the more she shocks mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But charms decline: the fair long vigils keep:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They sleep no more! <a id="noteref_17" name="noteref_17" href="#note_17"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">17</span></span></a>quadrille has murder'd sleep.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Poor K—p! cries Livia; I have not been there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These two nights; the poor creature will despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I hate a crowd—but to do good, you know—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And people of condition should bestow."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Convinc'd, o'ercome, to K—p's grave matrons run;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now set a daughter, and now stake a son;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let health, fame, temper, beauty, fortune, fly;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And beggar half their race—thro' charity.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Immortal were we, or else mortal quite,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I less should blame this criminal delight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But since the gay assembly's gayest room</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is but the upper story of some tomb,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Methinks, we need not our short beings shun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, thought to fly, contend to be undone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We need not buy our ruin with our crime,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And give eternity to murder time.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The love of gaming is the worst of ills;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With ceaseless storms the blacken'd soul it fills;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inveighs at heaven, neglects the ties of blood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Destroys the power and will of doing good;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Kills health, pawns honour, plunges in disgrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, what is still more dreadful—spoils your face.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">See yonder set of thieves that live on spoil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The scandal, and the ruin of our isle!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And see, (strange sight!) amid that ruffian band,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A form divine high wave her snowy hand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That rattles loud a small enchanted box,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which, loud as thunder, on the board she knocks.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And as fierce storms, which earth's foundation shook,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg 140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From Æolus's cave impetuous broke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From this small cavern a mix'd tempest flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fear, rage, convulsion, tears, oaths, blasphemies!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For men, I mean,—the fair discharges none;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She (guiltless creature!) swears to heaven alone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">See her eyes start! cheeks glow! and muscles swell!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like the mad maid in the Cumean cell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus that divine one her soft nights employs!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus tunes her soul to tender nuptial joys!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when the cruel morning calls to bed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on her pillow lays her aching head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With the dear images her dreams are crown'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The die spins lovely, or the cards go round;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Imaginary ruin charms her still;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her happy lord is cuckol'd by spadille:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And if she's brought to bed, 'tis ten to one,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He marks the forehead of her darling son.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O scene of horror, and of wild despair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why is the rich Atrides' splended heir</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Constrain'd to quit his ancient lordly seat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hide his glories in a mean retreat?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why that drawn sword? And whence that dismal cry?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why pale distraction thro' the family?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See my lord threaten, and my lady weep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And trembling servants from the tempest creep.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why that gay son to distant regions sent?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What fiends that daughter's destin'd match prevent?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why the whole house in sudden ruin laid?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O nothing, but last night—my lady play'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But wanders not my satire from my theme?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is this too owing to the love of fame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though now your hearts on lucre are bestow'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twas first a vain devotion to the mode;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor cease we here, since 'tis a vice so strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The torrent sweeps all womankind along;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This may be said, in honour of our times,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That none now stand distinguish'd by their crimes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If sin you must, take nature for your guide:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Love has some soft excuse to soothe your pride:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye fair apostates from love's ancient power!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can nothing ravish, but a golden shower?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can cards alone your glowing fancy seize;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Must Cupid learn to punt, ere he can please?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When you're enamour'd of a lift or cast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What can the preacher more, to make us chaste?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why must strong youths unmarried pine away?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They find no woman disengag'd——from play.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why pine the married—O severer fate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They find from play no disengag'd—estate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flavia, at lovers false, untouch'd and hard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Turns pale, and trembles at a cruel card.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor Arria's Bible can secure her age;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her threescore years are shuffling with her page.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While death stands by, but till the game is done,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To sweep that stake, in justice, long his own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like old cards ting'd with sulphur, she takes fire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, like snuffs sunk in sockets, blazes higher.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye gods! with new delights inspire the fair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or give us sons, and save us from despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sons, brothers, fathers, husbands, tradesmen, close</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In my complaint, and brand your sins in prose:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet I believe, as firmly as my creed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In spite of all our wisdom, you'll proceed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our pride so great, our passion is so strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Advice to right confirms us in the wrong.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I hear you cry, "This fellow's very odd."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When you chastise, who would not kiss the rod?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But I've a charm your anger shall control,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And turn your eyes with coldness on the vole.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The charm begins! To yonder flood of light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That bursts o'er gloomy Britain, turn your sight.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What guardian power o'erwhelms your souls with awe?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her deeds are precepts, her example law;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Midst empire's charms, how Carolina's heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Glows with the love of virtue, and of art!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her favour is diffus'd to that degree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Excess of goodness! it has dawn'd on me:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When in my page, to balance numerous faults,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or godlike deeds were shown, or gen'rous thoughts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She smil'd, industrious to be pleas'd, nor knew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From whom my pen the borrow'd lustre drew.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em"><a id="noteref_18" name="noteref_18" href="#note_18"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">18</span></span></a>Thus the majestic mother of mankind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To her own charms most amiably blind,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name="Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On the green margin innocently stood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gaz'd indulgent on the crystal flood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Survey'd the stranger in the painted wave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, smiling, prais'd the beauties which she gave.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc31" id="toc31"></a><a name="pdf32" id="pdf32"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Satire VII.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Carmina tum melius, cum venerit ipse, canemus.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On this last labour, this my closing strain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Smile, Walpole! or the Nine inspire in vain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To thee, 'tis due; that verse how justly thine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where Brunswick's glory crowns the whole design!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That glory, which thy counsels make so bright;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That glory, which on thee reflects a light.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Illustrious commerce, and but rarely known!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To give, and take, a lustre from the throne.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor think that thou art foreign to my theme;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fountain is not foreign to the stream.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How all mankind will be surprised, to see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This flood of British folly charg'd on thee!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say, Britain! whence this caprice of thy sons,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which thro' their various ranks with fury runs?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The cause is plain, a cause which we must bless;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For caprice is the daughter of success,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(A bad effect, but from a pleasing cause!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gives our rulers undesign'd applause;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tells how their conduct bids our wealth increase,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lulls us in the downy lap of peace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">While I survey the blessings of our isle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her arts triumphant in the royal smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her public wounds bound up, her credit high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her commerce spreading sails in every sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pleasing scene recalls my theme again,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shows the madness of ambitious men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, fond of bloodshed, draw the murd'ring sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And burn to give mankind a single lord.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The follies past are of a private kind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their sphere is small; their mischief is confin'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But daring men there are (Awake, my muse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And raise thy verse!) who bolder frenzy choose;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who stung by glory, rave, and bound away;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world their field, and humankind their prey.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The Grecian chief, th' enthusiast of his pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With rage and terror stalking by his side,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Raves round the globe; he soars into a god!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stand fast, Olympus! and sustain his nod.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pest divine in horrid grandeur reigns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thrives on mankind's miseries and pains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What slaughter'd hosts! what cities in a blaze!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What wasted countries! and what crimson seas!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With orphans' tears his impious bowl o'erflows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cries of kingdoms lull him to repose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And cannot thrice ten hundred years unpraise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The boist'rous boy, and blast his guilty bays?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why want we then encomiums on the storm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or famine, or volcano? They perform</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their mighty deeds: they, hero-like, can slay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And spread their ample desarts in a day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O great alliance! O divine renown!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With dearth, and pestilence, to share the crown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When men extol a wild destroyer's name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth's builder and preserver they blaspheme.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">One to destroy, is murder by the law;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To murder thousands, takes a specious name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When, after battle, I the field have seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Spread o'er with ghastly shapes, which once were men;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A nation crush'd, a nation of the brave!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A realm of death! and on this side the grave!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are there, said I, who from this sad survey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This human chaos, carry smiles away?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How did my heart with indignation rise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How honest nature swell'd into my eyes!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How was I shock'd to think the hero's trade</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of such materials, fame and triumph made!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How guilty these! Yet not less guilty they,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who reach false glory by a smoother way:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who wrap destruction up in gentle words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bows, and smiles, more fatal than their swords;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who stifle nature, and subsist on art;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who coin the face, and petrify the heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All real kindness for the show discard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As marble polish'd, and as marble hard;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who do for gold what Christians do thro' grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"With open arms their enemies embrace:"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who give a nod when broken hearts repine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"The thinnest food on which a wretch can dine:"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, if they serve you, serve you disinclin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, in their height of kindness, are unkind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such courtiers were, and such again may be,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Walpole! when men forget to copy thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Here cease, my muse! the catalogue is writ;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor one more candidate for fame admit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' disappointed thousands justly blame</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy partial pen, and boast an equal claim:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be this their comfort, fools, omitted here,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May furnish laughter for another year.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then let Crispino, who was ne'er refused</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The justice yet of being well abus'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With patience wait; and be content to reign</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pink of puppies in some future strain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How science dwindles, and how volumes swell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How commentators each dark passage shun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hold their farthing candle to the sun.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How tortur'd texts to speak our sense are made,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every vice is to the scripture laid.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How misers squeeze a young voluptuous peer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His sins to Lucifer not half so dear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"> How Verres is less qualified to steal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With sword and pistol, than with wax and seal.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How lawyers' fees to such excess are run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That clients are redress'd till they're undone.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How one man's anguish is another's sport;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ev'n denials cost us dear at court.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How man eternally false judgments makes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all his joys and sorrows are mistakes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This swarm of themes that settles on my pen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which I, like summer flies, shake off again,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let others sing; to whom my weak essay</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But sounds a prelude, and points out their prey:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That duty done, I hasten to complete</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My own design; for Tonson's at the gate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The love of fame in its effect survey'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The muse has sung; be now the cause display'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since so diffusive, and so wide its sway,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What is this power, whom all mankind obey?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Shot from above, by heaven's indulgence, came</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This generous ardour, this unconquer'd flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To warm, to raise, to deify, mankind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still burning brightest in the noblest mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By large-soul'd men, for thirst of fame renown'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wise laws were fram'd, and sacred arts were found;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Desire of praise first broke the patriot's rest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And made a bulwark of the warrior's breast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It bids Argyll in fields and senate shine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What more can prove its origin divine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But, oh! this passion planted in the soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On eagle's wings to mount her to the pole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The flaming minister of virtue meant,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Set up false gods, and wrong'd her high descent.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ambition, hence, exerts a doubtful force,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of blots, and beauties, an alternate source;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence Gildon rails, that raven of the pit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who thrives upon the carcasses of wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in art-loving Scarborough is seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How kind a pattern Pollio might have been.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pursuit of fame with pedants fills our schools,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And into coxcombs burnishes our fools;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pursuit of fame makes solid learning bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Newton lifts above a mortal height;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That key of nature, by whose wit she clears</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her long, long secrets of five thousand years.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Would you then fully comprehend the whole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why, and in what degrees, pride sways the soul?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(For though in all, not equally, she reigns,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awake to knowledge, and attend my strains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye doctors! hear the doctrine I disclose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As true, as if't were writ in dullest prose;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As if a letter'd dunce had said, "'Tis right,"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And imprimatur usher'd it to light.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ambition, in the truly noble mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With sister virtue is for ever join'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As in fam'd Lucrece, who, with equal dread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From guilt, and shame, by her last conduct, fled:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her virtue long rebell'd in firm disdain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the sword pointed at her heart in vain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, when the slave was threaten'd to be laid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dead by her side, her love of fame obey'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In meaner minds ambition works alone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But with such art puts virtue's aspect on,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That not more like in feature and in mien,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_19" name="noteref_19" href="#note_19"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">19</span></span></a>The god and mortal in the comic scene.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">False Julius, ambush'd in this fair disguise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Soon made the Roman liberties his prize.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No mask in basest minds ambition wears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But in full light pricks up her ass's ears:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All I have sung are instances of this,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And prove my theme unfolded not amiss.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye vain! desist from your erroneous strife;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be wise, and quit the false sublime of life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The true ambition there alone resides,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where justice vindicates, and wisdom guides;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where inward dignity joins outward state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our purpose good, as our achievement great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where public blessings public praise attend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where glory is our motive, not our end.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wouldst thou be fam'd? Have those high deeds in view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Brave men would act, though scandal should ensue.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Behold a prince! whom no swoln thoughts inflame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No pride of thrones, no fever after fame!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But when the welfare of mankind inspires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And death in view to dear-bought glory fires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Proud conquests then, then regal pomps delight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then crowns, then triumphs, sparkle in his sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tumult and noise are dear, which with them bring</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His people's blessings to their ardent king:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, when those great heroic motives cease,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His swelling soul subsides to native peace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From tedious grandeur's faded charms withdraws,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sudden foe to splendour and applause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Greatly deferring his arrears of fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till men and angels jointly shout his name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O pride celestial! which can pride disdain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O blest ambition! which can ne'er be vain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From one fam'd Alpine hill, which props the sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In whose deep womb unfathom'd waters lie,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here burst the Rhone, and sounding Po; there shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In infant rills, the Danube and the Rhine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the rich store one fruitful urn supplies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whole kingdoms smile, a thousand harvests rise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In Brunswick such a source the muse adores,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which public blessings thro' half Europe pours.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When his heart burns with such a godlike aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Angels and George are rivals for the fame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">George! who in foes can soft affections raise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And charm envenom'd satire into praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em"><a id="noteref_20" name="noteref_20" href="#note_20"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">20</span></span></a>Nor human rage alone his power perceives,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But the mad winds, and the tumultuous waves.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ev'n storms (death's fiercest ministers!) forbear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, in their own wild empire, learn to spare.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus, nature's self, supporting man's decree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Styles Britain's sovereign, sovereign of the sea.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">While sea and air, great Brunswick! shook our state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sported with a king's and kingdom's fate,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Depriv'd of what she lov'd, and press'd by fear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of ever losing what she held most dear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How did Britannia, like <a id="noteref_21" name="noteref_21" href="#note_21"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">21</span></span></a>Achilles, weep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tell her sorrows to the kindred deep!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hang o'er the floods, and, in devotion warm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Strive, for thee, with the surge, and fight the storm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What felt thy Walpole, pilot of the realm!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our Palinurus<a id="noteref_22" name="noteref_22" href="#note_22"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">22</span></span></a> slept not at the helm;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His eye ne'er clos'd; long since inur'd to wake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And out-watch every star for Brunswick's sake:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By thwarting passions tost, by cares opprest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He found the tempest pictur'd in his breast:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, now, what joys that gloom of heart dispel,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No powers of language—but his own, can tell:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His own, which nature and the graces form,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At will, to raise, or hush, the civil storm.</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc33" id="toc33"></a><a name="pdf34" id="pdf34"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Ocean: An Ode</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">occasioned by His Majesty's Royal Encouragement of the Sea Service.</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To Which is Prefixed an Ode to the King; and a Discourse on Ode.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">I think myself obliged to recommend to you a consideration +of the greatest importance; and I should look upon it as a +great happiness, if, at the beginning of my reign, I could see +the foundation laid of so great and necessary a work, as the +increase and encouragement of our seamen in general; that +they may be invited, rather than compelled by force and violence, +to enter into the service of their country, as oft as +occasion shall require it: a consideration worthy the representatives +of a people great and flourishing in trade and navigation. +This leads me to mention to you the case of Greenwich +Hospital, that care may be taken, by some addition to that +fund, to render comfortable and effectual that charitable provision, +for the support and maintenance of our seamen, worn +out, and become decrepit by age and infirmities, in the service +of their country.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">[Speech, Jan. 27, 1727-8.]</span></p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To the King.—1728.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Old ocean's praise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Demands my lays;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A truly British theme I sing;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A theme so great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I dare complete,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And join with ocean, ocean's king.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Roman ode</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Majestic flow'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its stream divinely clear, and strong;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In sense, and sound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thebes roll'd profound;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The torrent roar'd and foam'd along.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let Thebes, nor Rome,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So fam'd, presume</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To triumph o'er a northern isle;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Late time shall know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The north can glow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If dread Augustus deign to smile.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The naval crown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is all his own!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our fleet, if war, or commerce, call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His will performs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Through waves and storms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rides in triumph round the ball.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No former race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With strong embrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This theme to ravish durst aspire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With virgin charms</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My soul it warms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And melts melodious on my lyre.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My lays I file</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With cautious toil;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye graces! turn the glowing lines;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On anvils neat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your strokes repeat;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At every stroke the work refines!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How music charms!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How metre warms!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Parent of actions, good and brave!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How vice it tames!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And worth inflames!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And holds proud empire o'er the grave!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Jove mark'd for man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A scanty span,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But lent him wings to fly his doom;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Wit scorns the grave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To wit he gave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The life of gods! immortal bloom!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Since years will fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And pleasures die,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Day after day, as years advance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Since, while life lasts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Joy suffers blasts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From frowning fate, and fickle chance;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor life is long;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But soon we throng,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like autumn leaves, death's pallid shore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">We make, at least,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of bad the best,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If in life's phantom, fame, we soar.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our strains divide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The laurel's pride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With those we lift to life, to live;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By fame enroll'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With heroes bold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And share the blessings which we give.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What hero's praise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can fire my lays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like his, with whom my lay begun?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Justice sincere,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And courage clear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rise the two columns of his throne.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"How form'd for sway!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who look, obey;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They read the monarch in his port:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their love and awe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Supply the law;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And his own lustre makes the court:"</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On yonder height,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What golden light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Triumphant shines? and shines alone?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Unrivall'd blaze!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The nations gaze!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis not the sun; 'tis Britain's throne.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our monarch, there,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Rear'd high in air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Should tempests rise, disdains to bend;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like British oak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Derides the stroke;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His blooming honours far extend!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beneath them lies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With lifted eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fair Albion, like an amorous maid;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">While interest wings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Bold foreign kings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To fly, like eagles, to his shade.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At his proud foot</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The sea, pour'd out,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Immortal nourishment supplies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thence wealth and state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And power and fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which Europe reads in George's eyes.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From what we view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">We take the clue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which leads from great to greater thing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Men doubt no more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But gods adore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When such resemblance shines in kings.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">On Lyric Poetry.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">How imperfect soever my own composition may +be, yet am I willing to speak a word or two, of +the nature of lyric poetry; to show that I have, +at least, some idea of perfection in that kind of +poem in which I am engaged; and that I do not +think myself poet enough entirely to rely on inspiration +for success in it.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To our having, or not having, this idea of perfection +in the poem we undertake, is chiefly owing +the merit or demerit of our performances, as also +the modesty or vanity of our opinions concerning +them. And in speaking of it I shall show how it +unavoidably comes to pass, that bad poets, that is, +poets in general, are esteemed, and really are, the +most vain, the most irritable, and most ridiculous +set of men upon earth. But poetry in its own +nature is certainly</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Non hos quæsitum munus in usus.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He that has an idea of perfection in the work +he undertakes may fail in it; he that has not, +must: and yet he will be vain. For every little +degree of beauty, how short or improper soever, +will be looked on fondly by him; because it is all +pure gains, and more than he promised to himself; +and because he has no test, or standard in his +judgment, with which to chastise his opinion of it.</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now this idea of perfection is, in poetry, more +refined than in other kinds of writing; and because +more refined, therefore more difficult; and +because more difficult, therefore more rarely attained; +and the non-attainment of it is, as I have +said, the source of our vanity. Hence the poetic +clan are more obnoxious to vanity than others. +And from vanity consequently flows that great +sensibility of disrespect, that quick resentment, +that tinder of the mind that kindles at every +spark, and justly marks them out for the genus +irritabile among mankind. And from this combustible +temper, this serious anger for no very +serious things, things looked on by most as foreign +to the important points of life, as consequentially +flows that inheritance of ridicule, which devolves +on them, from generation to generation. As +soon as they become authors, they become like +Ben Jonson's angry boy, and learn the art of +quarrel.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Concordes animæ—dum nocte prementur;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Heu! quantum inter se bellum, si lumina vitæ</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Attigerint, quantas acies stragemque ciebunt!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Qui Juvenes! quantas ostentant, aspice, vires.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Ne, pueri! ne tanta animis assuescite bella.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Tuque prior, tu parce, genus qui ducis Olympo,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Sidereo flagrans clypeo, et cœlestibus armis,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Projice tela manu, sanguis meus!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Nec te ullæ facies, non terruit ipse Typhœus</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Arduus, arma tenens; non te Messapus et Ufens,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Contemtorque Deûm Mezentius.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But to return. He that has this idea of perfection +in the work he undertakes, however successful +he is, will yet be modest; because to rise +up to that idea, which he proposed for his model, +is almost, if not absolutely, impossible.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These two observations account for what may +seem as strange, as it is infallibly true; I mean, +they show us why good writers have the lowest, +and bad writers the highest, opinion of their own +performances. They who have only a partial idea +of this perfection, as their portion of ignorance +or knowledge of it is greater or less, have proportionable +degrees of modesty or conceit.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nor, though natural good understanding makes +a tolerably just judgment in things of this nature, +will the reader judge the worse, for forming to +himself a notion of what he ought to expect from +the piece he has in hand, before he begins his +perusal of it.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ode, as it is the eldest kind of poetry, so it +is more spiritous, and more remote from prose, +than any other, in sense, sound, expression, and +conduct. Its thoughts should be uncommon, sublime, +and moral; its numbers full, easy, and most +harmonious; its expression pure, strong, delicate, +yet unaffected; and of a curious felicity beyond +other poems; its conduct should be rapturous, +somewhat abrupt, and immethodical to a vulgar +eye. That apparent order, and connexion, which +gives form and life to some compositions, takes + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +away the very soul of this. Fire, elevation, and +select thought, are indispensable; an humble, +tame, and vulgar ode is the most pitiful error a +pen can commit.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Musa dedit fidibus divos, puerosque deorum.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And as its subjects are sublime, its writer's genius +should be so too; otherwise it becomes the +meanest thing in writing, viz. an involuntary burlesque.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is the genuine character, and true merit of +the ode, a little to startle some apprehensions. +Men of cold complexions are very apt to mistake +a want of vigour in their imaginations, for a delicacy +of taste in their judgments; and, like persons +of a tender sight, they look on bright objects, +in their natural lustre, as too glaring; what is +most delightful to a stronger eye, is painful to +them. Thus Pindar, who has as much logic at +the bottom as Aristotle or Euclid, to some critics +has appeared as mad; and must appear so to all +who enjoy no portion of his own divine spirit. +Dwarf understandings, measuring others by their +own standard, are apt to think they see a monster, +when they see a man.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And indeed it seems to be the amends which +nature makes to those whom she has not blessed +with an elevation of mind, to indulge them in the +comfortable mistake, that all is wrong, which falls +not within the narrow limits of their own comprehensions +and relish.</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Judgment, indeed, that masculine power of the +mind, in ode, as in all compositions, should bear +the supreme sway; and a beautiful imagination, +as its mistress, should be subdued to its dominion. +Hence, and hence only, can proceed the fairest +offspring of the human mind.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But then in ode, there is this difference from +other kinds of poetry; that, there, the imagination, +like a very beautiful mistress, is indulged in +the appearance of domineering; though the judgment, +like an artful lover, in reality carries its +point; and the less it is suspected of it, it shows +the more masterly conduct, and deserves the +greater commendation.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It holds true in this province of writing, as in +war, "The more danger; the more honour." It +must be very enterprising: it must, in Shakespeare's +style, have hairbreadth 'scapes; and often +tread the very brink of error: nor can it ever +deserve the applause of the real judge, unless it +renders itself obnoxious to the misapprehensions +of the contrary.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such is Casimire's strain among the moderns, +whose lively wit, and happy fire, is an honour to +them. And Buchanan might justly be much admired, +if any thing more than the sweetness of +his numbers, and the purity of his diction, were +his own: his original, from which I have taken +my motto, through all the disadvantages of a +northern prose translation, is still admirable; and, + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name="Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +Cowley says, as preferable in beauty to Buchanan, +as Judæa is to Scotland.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, and Horace, are +the great masters of lyric poetry among Heathen +writers. Pindar's muse, like Sacharissa, is +a stately, imperious, and accomplished beauty; +equally disdaining the use of art, and the fear of +any rival; so intoxicating that it was the highest +commendation that could be given an ancient, that +he was not afraid to taste of her charms;</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustus;</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">a danger which Horace declares he durst not run.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Anacreon's Muse is like Amoret, most sweet, +natural, and delicate; all over flowers, graces, +and charms; inspiring complacency, not awe; and +she seems to have good nature enough to admit a +rival, which she cannot find.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sappho's Muse, like Lady ——, is passionately +tender, and glowing; like oil set on fire, she is +soft, and warm, in excess. Sappho has left us a +few fragments only; time has swallowed the rest; +but that little which remains, like the remaining +jewel of Cleopatra, after the other was dissolved at +her banquet, may be esteemed (as was that jewel) +a sufficient ornament for the goddess of beauty +herself.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Horace's Muse (like one I shall not presume to +name) is correct, solid, and moral; she joins all +the sweetness and majesty, all the sense and the + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +fire of the former, in the justest proportions and +degrees; superadding a felicity of dress entirely +her own. She moreover is distinguishable by this +particularity, that she abounds in hidden graces, +and secret charms, which none but the discerning +can discover; nor are any capable of doing full +justice, in their opinion to her excellencies, without +giving the world, at the same time, an incontestable +proof of refinement in their own understandings.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But, after all, to the honour of our own country +I must add, that I think Mr. Dryden's Ode on St. +Cecilia's Day inferior to no composition of this +kind. Its chief beauty consists in adapting the +numbers most happily to the variety of the occasion. +Those by which he has chosen to express +majesty, (viz.)</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Assumes the God,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Affects to nod,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And seems to shake the spheres,</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">are chosen in the following ode, because the subject +of it is great.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For the more harmony likewise, I chose the +frequent return of rhyme; which laid me under +great difficulties. But difficulties overcome give +grace and pleasure. Nor can I account for the +pleasure of rhyme in general (of which the moderns +are too fond) but from this truth.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But then the writer must take care that the +difficulty is overcome. That is, he must make + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +rhyme consistent with as perfect sense, and expression, +as could be expected if he was free from +that shackle. Otherwise, it gives neither grace to +the work, nor pleasure to the reader, nor, consequently, +reputation to the poet.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To sum the whole: ode should be peculiar, but +not strained; moral, but not flat; natural, but not +obvious; delicate, but not affected; noble, but not +ambitious; full, but not obscure; fiery, but not +mad; thick, but not loaded in its numbers, which +should be most harmonious, without the least +sacrifice of expression, or of sense. Above all, in +this, as in every work of genius, somewhat of an +original spirit should be, at least attempted; otherwise +the poet, whose character disclaims mediocrity, +makes a secondary praise his ultimate +ambition; which has something of a contradiction +in it. Originals only have true life, and differ as +much from the best imitations, as men from the +most animated pictures of them. Nor is what I +say at all inconsistent with a due deference for +the great standards of antiquity; nay, that very +deference is an argument for it, for doubtless their +example is on my side in this matter. And we +should rather imitate their example in the general +motives, and fundamental methods of their working, +than in their works themselves. This is a +distinction, I think, not hitherto made, and a distinction +of consequence. For the first may make +us their equals; the second must pronounce us + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +their inferiors even in our utmost success. But +the first of these prizes is not so readily taken by +the moderns; as valuables too massy for easy carriage +are not so liable to the thief.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ancients had a particular regard to the choice +of their subjects; which were generally national +and great. My subject is, in its own nature, noble; +most proper for an Englishman; never more +proper than on this occasion; and (what is strange) +hitherto unsung.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">If I stand not absolutely condemned by my own +rules; if I have hit the spirit of ode in general; +if I cannot think with Mr. Cowley, that "Music +alone, sometimes, makes an excellent ode;"</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Versus inopes rerum, nugæque canoræ;</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">if there is any thought, enthusiasm, and picture, +which are as the body, soul, and robe of poetry; +in a word, if in any degree I have provided rather +food for men, than air for wits; I hope smaller +faults will meet indulgence for the sake of the +design, which is the glory of my country and my +king.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And indeed, this may be said, in general, that +great subjects are above being nice; that dignity +and spirit ever suffer from scrupulous exactness; +And that the minuter cares effeminate a composition. +Great masters of poetry, painting, and statuary, +in their nobler works, have even affected +the contrary: and justly; for a truly masculine + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +air partakes more of the negligent, than of the +neat, both in writings, and in life—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Grandis oratio haberet majestatis suæ pondus.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Petron.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A poem, like a criminal, under too severe correction, +may lose all its spirit, and expire. We +know it was Faberrimus, that was such an artist +at a hair or a nail. And we know the cause was</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Quia ponere totum</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Nescius.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Hor.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To close: if a piece of this nature wants an +apology, I must own, that those who have strength +of mind sufficient profitably to devote the whole +of their time to the severer studies, I despair of +imitating, I can only envy and admire. The mind +is relieved and strengthened by variety; and he +that sometimes is sporting with his pen, is only +taking the most effectual means of giving a general +importance to it. This truth is clear from the +knowledge of human nature, and of history; from +which I could cite very celebrated instances, did I +not fear that, by citing them, I should condemn +myself, who am so little qualified to follow their +example in its full extent.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Ocean. An Ode.</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Let the sea make a noise, let the floods clap their hands.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Psalm</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> XCVIII.</span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sweet rural scene!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of flocks and green!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At careless ease my limbs are spread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All nature still,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But yonder rill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And list'ning pines nod o'er my head:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In prospect wide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The boundless tide!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Waves cease to foam, and winds to roar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Without a breeze,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The curling seas</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dance on, in measure to the shore.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who sings the source</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of wealth and force?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vast field of commerce, and big war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where wonders dwell!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where terrors swell!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Neptune thunders from his car?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where? where are they,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whom Pæan's ray</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has touch'd, and bid divinely rave?—</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What! none aspire?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I snatch the lyre,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And plunge into the foaming wave.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The wave resounds!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The rock rebounds!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Nereids to my song reply!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I lead the choir,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And they conspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With voice and shell, to lift it high.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">They spread in air</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their bosoms fair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their verdant tresses pour behind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The billows beat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With nimble feet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With notes triumphant swell the wind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who love the shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let those adore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The god Apollo, and his Nine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Parnassus' hill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And Orpheus' skill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But let Arion's harp be mine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The main! the main!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is Britain's reign;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her strength, her glory, is her fleet:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The main! the main!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Be Britain's strain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As Tritons strong, as Syrens sweet.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' nature wide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is nought descried</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So rich in pleasure or surprise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When all-serene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How sweet the scene!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How dreadful, when the billows rise;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And storms deface</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The fluid glass,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In which erewhile Britannia fair</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Look'd down with pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Like Ocean's bride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Adjusting her majestic air!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When tempests cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And, hush'd in peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The flatten'd surges smoothly spread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Deep silence keep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And seem to sleep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Recumbent on their oozy bed;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With what a trance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The level glance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unbroken, shoots along the seas!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which tempt from shore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The painted oar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every canvass courts the breeze!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When rushes forth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The frowning north</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On black'ning billows, with what dread</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My shuddering soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beholds them roll,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hears their roarings o'er my head!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With terror mark</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Yon flying bark!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now center-deep descend the brave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now, toss'd on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It takes the sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A feather on the tow'ring wave!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now spins around</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In whirls profound:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now whelm'd; now pendant near the clouds;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now stunn'd, it reels</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Midst thunder's peals:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And now fierce lightning fires the shrouds.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All ether burns!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Chaos returns!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And blends, once more, the seas and skies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No space between</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thy bosom green,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O deep! and the blue concave, lies.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The northern blast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The shatter'd mast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The syrt, the whirlpool, and the rock,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The breaking spout,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The stars gone out,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The boiling streight, the monsters shock,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let others fear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To Britain dear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whate'er promotes her daring claim;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Those terrors charm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which keep her warm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In chase of honest gain, or fame.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The stars are bright</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To cheer the night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shed, thro' shadows, temper'd fire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And Phœbus' flames,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With burnish'd beams,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which some adore, and all admire.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are then the seas</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Outshone by these?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bright Thetis! thou art not outshone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With kinder beams,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And softer gleams,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy bosom wears them as thy own.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">There, set in green,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Gold stars are seen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A mantle rich! thy charms to wrap;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And when the sun</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His race has run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He falls enamour'd in thy lap.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Those clouds, whose dyes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Adorn the skies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That silver snow, that pearly rain,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Has Phœbus stole</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To grace the pole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The plunder of th' invaded main!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The gaudy bow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whose colours glow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose arch with so much skill is bent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To Phœbus' ray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which paints so gay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By thee the wat'ry woof was lent.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In chambers deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where waters sleep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What unknown treasures pave the floor!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The pearl, in rows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Pale lustre throws;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The wealth immense, which storms devour.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From Indian mines,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With proud designs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The merchant, swoln, digs golden ore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The tempests rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And seize the prize,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And toss him breathless on the shore.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His son complains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In pious strains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Ah cruel thirst of gold!" he cries;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then ploughs the main,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In zeal for gain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The tears yet swelling in his eyes.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thou wat'ry vast!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What mounds are cast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To bar thy dreadful flowings o'er!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thy proudest foam</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Must know its home;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But rage of gold disdains a shore.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Gold pleasure buys;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But pleasure dies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Too soon the gross fruition cloys;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Tho' raptures court,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The sense is short;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But virtue kindles living joys;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Joys felt alone!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Joys ask'd of none!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which time's and fortune's arrows miss:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Joys that subsist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Tho' fates resist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An unprecarious, endless bliss!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The soul refin'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is most inclin'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To every moral excellence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All vice is dull,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A knave's a fool;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And virtue is the child of sense.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The virtuous mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor wave, nor wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor civil rage, nor tyrant's frown,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The shaken ball,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor planet's fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From its firm basis can dethrone.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This Britain knows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And therefore glows</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With gen'rous passions, and expends</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Her wealth and zeal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On public weal,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And brightens both by god-like ends.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What end so great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As that which late</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awoke the genius of the main;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which tow'ring rose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With George to close,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rival great Eliza's reign?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A voice has flown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From Britain's throne</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To re-inflame a grand design;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That voice shall rear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Yon <a id="noteref_23" name="noteref_23" href="#note_23"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">23</span></span></a>fabric fair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As nature's rose at the divine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When nature sprung,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Blest angels sung,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shouted o'er the rising ball;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For strains as high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As man's can fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These sea-devoted honours call.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From boist'rous seas,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The lap of ease</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Receives our wounded, and our old;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">High domes ascend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Stretch'd arches bend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Proud columns swell! wide gates unfold!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Here, soft reclin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From wave, from wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fortune's tempest safe ashore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To cheat their care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of former war</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They talk the pleasing shadows o'er.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In lengthen'd tales,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our fleet prevails;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In tales the lenitives of age!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And o'er the bowl,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">They fire the soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of list'ning youth, to martial rage.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Unhappy they!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And falsely gay!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who bask for ever in success;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A constant feast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Quite palls the taste,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And long enjoyment is distress.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg17" id="Pg17" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When, after toil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His native soil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The panting mariner regains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What transport flows</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From bare repose!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We reap our pleasure from our pains.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye warlike slain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beneath the main,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wrapt in a wat'ry winding sheet;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who bought with blood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your country's good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your country's <a id="noteref_24" name="noteref_24" href="#note_24"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">24</span></span></a>full-blown glory greet.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What pow'rful charm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can death disarm?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your long, your iron slumbers break?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By Jove, by Fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By George's name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awake! awake! awake! awake!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With spiral shell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Full blasted, tell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That all your wat'ry realms should ring;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your pearl alcoves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your coral groves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Should echo theirs, and Britain's king.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As long as stars</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Guide mariners,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As Carolina's virtues please,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or suns invite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The ravish'd sight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The British flag shall sweep the seas.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Peculiar both!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our soil's strong growth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And our bold natives' hardy mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sure heaven bespoke</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our hearts and oak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To give a master to mankind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That noblest birth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of teeming earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of forests fair, that daughter proud,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To foreign coasts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our grandeur boasts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Britain's pleasure speaks aloud:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now big with war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sends fate from far,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If rebel realms their fate demand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now, sumptuous spoils</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of foreign soils</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pours in the bosom of our land.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hence Britain lays</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In scales, and weighs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fate of kingdoms, and of kings;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name="Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And as she frowns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or smiles, on crowns</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A night, or day of glory, springs.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus ocean swells</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The streams and rills,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to their borders lifts them high;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or else withdraws</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The mighty cause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And leaves their famish'd channels dry.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How mixt, how frail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How sure to fail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is every pleasure of mankind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A damp destroys</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My blooming joys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While Britain's glory fires my mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For who can gaze</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On restless seas,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unstruck with life's more restless state?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where all are tost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And most are lost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By tides of passion, blasts of fate?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The world's the main,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How vext! how vain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ambition swells, and anger foams;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">May good men find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beneath the wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A noiseless shore, unruffled homes!</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The public scene</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of harden'd men</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Teach me, O teach me to despise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The world few know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But to their woe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our crimes with our experience rise;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All tender sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is banish'd thence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All maiden nature's first alarms</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What shock'd before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Disgust no more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what disgusted has its charms.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In landscapes green</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">True bliss is seen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With innocence, in shades, she sports;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In wealthy towns</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Proud labour frowns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And painted sorrow smiles in courts.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">These scenes untried</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Seduc'd my pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To fortune's arrows bar'd my breast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Till wisdom came,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A hoary dame!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And told me pleasure was in rest.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"O may I steal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Along the vale</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of humble life, secure from foes!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My friend sincere!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My judgment clear!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gentle business my repose!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"My mind be strong</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To combat wrong!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grateful, O king! for favours shown!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Soft to complain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For others' pain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bold to triumph o'er my own!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"(When fortune's kind)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Acute to find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And warm to relish every boon!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And wise to still</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Fantastic ill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose frightful spectres stalk at noon!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"No fruitless toils!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No brainless broils!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each moment levell'd at the mark!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our day so short</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Invites to sport;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be sad and solemn when 'tis dark.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Yet, prudence, still</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Rein thou my will!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's most important, make most dear!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For 'tis in this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Resides true bliss;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True bliss, a deity severe!</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"When temper leans</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To gayer scenes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And serious life void moments spares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The sylvan chase</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My sinews brace!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or song unbend my mind from cares!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Nor shun, my soul!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The genial bowl,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where mirth, good nature, spirit, flow!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ingredients these,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Above, to please</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The laughing gods, the wise, below.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Though rich the vine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More wit than wine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More sense than wit, good-will than art,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">May I provide!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Fair truth, my pride!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My joy, the converse of the heart!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"The gloomy brow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The broken vow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To distant climes, ye gods! remove!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The nobly soul'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their commerce hold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With words of truth and looks of love!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"O glorious aim!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O wealth supreme!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Divine benevolence of soul!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That greatly glows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And freely flows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in one blessing grasps the whole;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Prophetic schemes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And golden dreams,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May I, unsanguine, cast away!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Have, what I have!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And live, not leave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enamour'd of the present day!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"My hours my own!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My faults unknown!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My chief revenue in content!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then, leave one beam</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of honest fame!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And scorn the labour'd monument!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Unhurt my urn!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Till that great turn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When mighty nature's self shall die!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Time cease to glide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With human pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sunk in the ocean of eternity."</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc35" id="toc35"></a><a name="pdf36" id="pdf36"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job.</span><a id="noteref_25" name="noteref_25" href="#note_25"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">25</span></span></a></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, etc. etc.</span></h1> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My Lord,</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though I have not the honour of being known +to your lordship, I presume to take a privilege +which men of retirement are apt to think themselves +in possession of, as being the only method +they have of making their way to persons of your +lordship's high station without struggling through +multitudes for access. I may possibly fail in my +respect to your lordship, even while I endeavour +to show it most; but if I err, it is because I +imagined I ought not to make my first approach +to one of your lordship's exalted character with +less ceremony than that of a dedication. It is +annexed to the condition of eminent merit, not to +suffer more from the malice of its enemies, than +from the importunity of its admirers; and perhaps + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +it would be unjust, that your lordship should +hope to be exempted from the troubles, when you +possess all the talents, of a patron.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I have here a fair occasion to celebrate those +sublime qualities, of which a whole nation is sensible, +were it not inconsistent with the design of +my present application. By the just discharge of +your great employments, your lordship may well +deserve the prayers of the distressed, the thanks +of your country, and the approbation of your +royal master: this indeed is a reason why every +good Briton should applaud your lordship; but it +is equally a reason why none should disturb you +in the execution of your important affairs by +works of fancy and amusement. I was therefore +induced to make this address to your lordship, by +considering you rather in the amiable light of a +person distinguished for a refined taste of the polite +arts, and the candour that usually attends it, +than in the dignity of your public character.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The greatness and solemnity of the subjects +treated of in the following work cannot fail in +some measure to recommend it to a person who +holds in the utmost veneration those sacred books +from which it is taken; and would at the same +time justify to the world my choice of the great +name prefixed to it, could I be assured that the +undertaking had not suffered in my hands. Thus +much I think myself obliged to say; that if this +little performance had not been very indulgently + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +spoken of by some, whose judgment is universally +allowed in writings of this nature, I had not +dared to gratify my ambition in offering it to +your lordship: I am sensible that I am endeavouring +to excuse one vanity by another; but I hope +I shall meet with pardon for it, since it is visibly +intended to show the great submission and respect +with which I am, my lord, your lordship's +most obedient and most humble servant,</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Edward Young.</span></span></p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thrice happy Job<a id="noteref_26" name="noteref_26" href="#note_26"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">26</span></span></a> long liv'd in regal state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor saw the sumptuous East a prince so great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose worldly stores in such abundance flow'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose heart with such exalted virtue glow'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At length misfortunes take their turn to reign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ills on ills succeed; a dreadful train!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What now but deaths, and poverty, and wrong,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sword wide-wasting, the reproachful tongue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And spotted plagues, that mark'd his limbs all o'er</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So thick with pains, they wanted room for more?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A change so sad what mortal heart could bear?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Exhausted woe had left him nought to fear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But gave him all to grief. Low earth he prest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wept in the dust, and sorely smote his breast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His friends around the deep affliction mourn'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Felt all his pangs, and groan for groan return'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In anguish of their hearts their mantles rent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And seven long days in solemn silence spent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A debt of rev'rence to distress so great!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then Job contain'd no more; but cursed his fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His day of birth, its inauspicious light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He wishes sunk in shades of endless night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And blotted from the year; nor fears to crave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Death, instant death; impatient for the grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That seat of bliss, that mansion of repose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where rest and mortals are no longer foes;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where counsellors are hush'd, and mighty kings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(O happy turn!) no more are wretched things.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His words were daring, and displeas'd his friends;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His conduct they reprove, and he defends;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And now they kindled into warm debate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sentiments oppos'd with equal heat;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fix'd in opinion, both refuse to yield,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And summon all their reason to the field:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So high at length their arguments were wrought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They reach'd the last extent of human thought:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A pause ensu'd.—When, lo! Heaven interpos'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And awfully the long contention clos'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Full o'er their heads, with terrible surprise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sudden whirlwind blacken'd all the skies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(They saw, and trembled!<a id="noteref_27" name="noteref_27" href="#note_27"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">27</span></span></a>) From the darkness broke</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A dreadful voice, and thus th' Almighty spoke.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who gives his tongue a loose so bold and vain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Censures my conduct, and reproves my reign?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lifts up his thoughts against me from the dust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tells the world's Creator what is just?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of late so brave, now lift a dauntless eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Face my demand, and give it a reply:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where didst thou dwell at nature's early birth?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who laid foundations for the spacious earth?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who on its surface did extend the line,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its form determine, and its bulk confine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who fix'd the corner-stone? What hand, declare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hung it on nought, and fasten'd it on air;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When the bright morning stars in concert sung,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When heaven's high arch with loud hosannas rung;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When shouting sons of God the triumph crown'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the wide concave thunder'd with the sound?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth's num'rous kingdoms, hast thou view'd them all?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And can thy span of knowledge grasp the ball?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who heav'd the mountain, which sublimely stands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And casts its shadow into distant lands?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who, stretching forth his sceptre o'er the deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can that wide world in due subjection keep?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I broke the globe, I scoop'd its hollow'd side,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And did a bason for the floods provide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I chain'd them with my word; the boiling sea,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Work'd up in tempests, hears my great decree;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"<a id="noteref_28" name="noteref_28" href="#note_28"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">28</span></span></a>Thus far, thy floating tide shall be convey'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And here, O main, be thy proud billows stay'd."</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hast thou explor'd the secrets of the deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where, shut from use, unnumber'd treasures sleep?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where, down a thousand fathoms from the day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Springs the great fountain, mother of the sea?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those gloomy paths did thy bold foot e'er tread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whole worlds of waters rolling o'er thy head?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hath the cleft centre open'd wide to thee?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Death's inmost chambers didst thou ever see?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">E'er knock at his tremendous gate, and wade</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To the black portal through th' incumbent shade?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deep are those shades; but shades still deeper hide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My counsels from the ken of human pride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where dwells the light? In what refulgent dome?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And where has darkness made her dismal home?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou know'st, no doubt, since thy large heart is fraught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With ripen'd wisdom, through long ages brought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since nature was call'd forth when thou wast by,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And into being rose beneath thine eye!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are mists begotten? Who their father knew?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From whom descend the pearly drops of dew?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To bind the stream by night, what hand can boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or whiten morning with the hoary frost?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose powerful breath, from northern regions blown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Touches the sea, and turns it into stone?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The like spirit in these two passages is no bad concurrent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">argument, that Moses is author of the book of Job.]</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A sudden desart spreads o'er realms defac'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lays one half of the creation waste?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thou know'st me not; thy blindness cannot see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How vast a distance parts thy God from thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Canst thou in whirlwinds mount aloft? Canst thou</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In clouds and darkness wrap thy awful brow?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, when day triumphs in meridian light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Put forth thy hand, and shade the world with night?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who launch'd the clouds in air, and bid them roll</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Suspended seas aloft, from pole to pole?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who can refresh the burning sandy plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And quench the summer with a waste of rain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, in rough desarts, far from human toil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Made rocks bring forth, and desolation smile?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There blooms the rose, where human face ne'er shone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And spreads its beauties to the sun alone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To check the shower, who lifts his hand on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shuts the sluices of th' exhausted sky</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When earth no longer mourns her gaping veins,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her naked mountains, and her russet plains;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, new in life, a cheerful prospect yields</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of shining rivers, and of verdant fields;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When groves and forests lavish all their bloom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And earth and heaven are fill'd with rich perfume?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hast thou e'er scal'd my wintry skies, and seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of hail and snows my northern magazine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These the dread treasures of mine anger are,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My funds of vengeance for the day of war,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When clouds rain death, and storms, at my command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rage through the world, or waste a guilty land.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who taught the rapid winds to fly so fast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or shakes the centre with his eastern blast?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who from the skies can a whole deluge pour?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who strikes through nature with the solemn roar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of dreadful thunder, points it where to fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in fierce lightning wraps the flying ball?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not he who trembles at the darted fires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Falls at the sound, and in the flash expires.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who drew the comet out to such a size,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And pour'd his flaming train o'er half the skies?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did thy resentment hang him out? Does he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Glare on the nations, and denounce, from thee?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who on low earth can moderate the rein,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That guides the stars along th' ethereal plain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Appoint their seasons, and direct their course,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their lustre brighten, and supply their force?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Canst thou the skies' benevolence restrain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cause the Pleiades to shine in vain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, when Orion sparkles from his sphere,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thaw the cold season, and unbind the year?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bid Mazzaroth his destin'd station know,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And teach the bright Arcturus where to glow?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mine is the night, with all her stars; I pour</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Myriads, and myriads I reserve in store.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Dost thou pronounce where day-light shall be born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And draw the purple curtain of the morn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awake the sun, and bid him come away,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And glad thy world with his obsequious ray?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hast thou, inthron'd in flaming glory, driven</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Triumphant round the spacious ring of heaven?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That pomp of light, what hand so far displays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That distant earth lies basking in the blaze?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who did the soul with her rich powers invest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And light up reason in the human breast?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To shine, with fresh increase of lustre, bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When stars and sun are set in endless night?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To these my various questions make reply.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' Almighty spoke; and, speaking, shook the sky.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What then, Chaldæan sire, was thy surprise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus thou, with trembling heart, and downcast eyes:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Once and again, which I in groans deplore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My tongue has err'd; but shall presume no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My voice is in eternal silence bound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all my soul falls prostrate to the ground."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He ceas'd: when, lo! again th' Almighty spoke;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The same dread voice from the black whirlwind broke.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can that arm measure with an arm divine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And canst thou thunder with a voice like mine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or in the hollow of thy hand contain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bulk of waters, the wide-spreading main,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When, mad with tempests, all the billows rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In all their rage, and dash the distant skies?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Come forth, in beauty's excellence array'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And be the grandeur of thy power display'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Put on omnipotence, and, frowning, make</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The spacious round of the creation shake;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dispatch thy vengeance, bid it overthow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Triumphant vice, lay lofty tyrants low,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And crumble them to dust. When this is done,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I grant thy safety lodg'd in thee alone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of thee thou art, and mayst undaunted stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Behind the buckler of thine own right hand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Fond man! the vision of a moment made!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What worlds hast thou produc'd, what creatures fram'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What insects cherish'd, that thy God is blam'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When <a id="noteref_29" name="noteref_29" href="#note_29"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">29</span></span></a>pain'd with hunger, the wild raven's brood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Loud calls on God, importunate for food,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who hears their cry, who grants their hoarse request,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stills the clamour of the craving nest?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who in the stupid ostrich<a id="noteref_30" name="noteref_30" href="#note_30"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">30</span></span></a> has subdu'd</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A parent's care, and fond inquietude?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While far she flies, her scatter'd eggs are found,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without an owner, on the sandy ground;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cast out on fortune, they at mercy lie,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And borrow life from an indulgent sky;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Adopted by the sun, in blaze of day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They ripen under his prolific ray.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unmindful she, that some unhappy tread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May crush her young in their neglected bed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_31" name="noteref_31" href="#note_31"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">31</span></span></a>What time she skims along the field with speed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_32" name="noteref_32" href="#note_32"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">32</span></span></a>She scorns the rider, and pursuing steed.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How rich the peacock!<a id="noteref_33" name="noteref_33" href="#note_33"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">33</span></span></a> what bright glories run</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From plume to plume, and vary in the sun!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He proudly spreads them, to the golden ray</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gives all his colours, and adorns the day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With conscious state the specious round displays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And slowly moves amid the waving blaze.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who taught the hawk to find, in seasons wise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Perpetual summer, and a change of skies?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When clouds deform the year, she mounts the wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shoots to the south, nor fears the storm behind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sun returning, she returns again,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lives in his beams, and leaves ill days to men.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Tho' strong the hawk,<a id="noteref_34" name="noteref_34" href="#note_34"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">34</span></span></a> tho' practis'd well to fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An eagle drops her in a lower sky;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An eagle, when, deserting human sight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She seeks the sun in her unwearied flight:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did thy command her yellow pinion lift</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So high in air, and set her on the clift,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where far above thy world she dwells alone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And proudly makes the strength of rocks her own;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_35" name="noteref_35" href="#note_35"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">35</span></span></a>Thence wide o'er nature takes her dread survey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with a glance predestinates her prey?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She feasts her young with blood; and, hov'ring o'er</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' unslaughter'd host, enjoys the promis'd gore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em"><a id="noteref_36" name="noteref_36" href="#note_36"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">36</span></span></a>Know'st thou how many moons, by me assign'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Roll o'er the mountain goat, and forest hind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While pregnant they a mother's load sustain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They bend in anguish, and cast forth their pain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hale are their young, from human frailties freed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Walk unsustain'd, and unassisted feed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They live at once; forsake the dam's warm side;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Take the wide world, with nature for their guide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bound o'er the lawn, or seek the distant glade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And find a home in each delightful shade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Will the tall reem, which knows no lord but me,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Low at the crib, and ask an alms of thee;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Submit his unworn shoulder to the yoke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Break the stiff clod, and o'er thy furrow smoke?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since great his strength, go trust him, void of care;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lay on his neck the toil of all the year;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bid him bring home the seasons to thy doors,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cast his load among thy gather'd stores.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Didst thou from service the wild ass discharge,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And break his bonds, and bid him live at large,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through the wide waste, his ample mansion, roam,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lose himself in his unbounded home?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By nature's hand magnificently fed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His meal is on the range of mountains spread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As in pure air aloft he bounds along,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He sees in distant smoke the city throng;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conscious of freedom, scorns the smother'd train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The threat'ning driver, and the servile rein.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Survey the warlike horse! didst thou invest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With thunder his robust distended chest?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No sense of fear his dauntless soul allays;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis dreadful to behold his nostrils blaze;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To paw the vale he proudly takes delight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And triumphs in the fulness of his might;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">High rais'd he snuffs the battle from afar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And burns to plunge amid the raging war;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And mocks at death, and throws his foam around,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in a storm of fury shakes the ground.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How does his firm, his rising heart, advance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Full on the brandish'd sword, and shaken lance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While his fix'd eyeballs meet the dazzling shield,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page198">[pg 198]</span><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gaze, and return the lightning of the field!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He sinks the sense of pain in gen'rous pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor feels the shaft that trembles in his side;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But neighs to the shrill trumpet's dreadful blast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till death; and when he groans, he groans his last.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But, fiercer still, the lordly lion stalks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grimly majestic in his lonely walks;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When round he glares, all living creatures fly;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He clears the desart with his rolling eye.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say, mortal, does he rouse at thy command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And roar to thee, and live upon thy hand?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dost thou for him in forests bend thy bow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to his gloomy den the morsel throw,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where bent on death lie hid his tawny brood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, couch'd in dreadful ambush, pant for blood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, stretch'd on broken limbs, consume the day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In darkness wrapt, and slumber o'er their prey?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_37" name="noteref_37" href="#note_37"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">37</span></span></a>By the pale moon they take their destin'd round,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lash their sides, and furious tear the ground.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now shrieks, and dying groans, the desart fill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They rage, they rend; their rav'nous jaws distill</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With crimson foam; and, when the banquet's o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They stride away, and paint their steps with gore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In flight alone the shepherd puts his trust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shudders at the talon in the dust.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Mild is my behemoth, though large his frame;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Smooth is his temper, and represt his flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While unprovok'd. This native of the flood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lifts his broad foot, and puts ashore for food;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth sinks beneath him, as he moves along</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To seek the herbs, and mingle with the throng.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See with what strength his harden'd loins are bound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All over proof and shut against a wound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How like a mountain cedar moves his tail!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor can his complicated sinews fail.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Built high and wide, his solid bones surpass</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bars of steel; his ribs are ribs of brass;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His port majestic, and his armed jaw,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give the wide forest, and the mountain, law.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mountains feed him; there the beasts admire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mighty stranger, and in dread retire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At length his greatness nearer they survey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Graze in his shadow, and his eye obey.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fens and marshes are his cool retreat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His noontide shelter from the burning heat;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And groves of willows give him all their shade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His eye drinks Jordan up, when, fir'd with drought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He trusts to turn its current down his throat;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In lessen'd waves it creeps along the plain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_38" name="noteref_38" href="#note_38"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">38</span></span></a>He sinks a river, and he thirsts again.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_39" name="noteref_39" href="#note_39"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">39</span></span></a>Go to the Nile, and, from its fruitful side,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cast forth thy line into the swelling tide:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With slender hair leviathan command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stretch his vastness on the loaded strand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will he become thy servant? Will he own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy lordly nod, and tremble at thy frown?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or with his sport amuse thy leisure day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, bound in silk, with thy soft maidens play?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Shall pompous banquets swell with such a prize?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the bowl journey round his ample size?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or the debating merchants share the prey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And various limbs to various marts convey?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' his firm skull what steel its way can win?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What forceful engine can subdue his skin?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fly far, and live; tempt not his matchless might:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bravest shrink to cowards in his sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_40" name="noteref_40" href="#note_40"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">40</span></span></a>The rashest dare not rouse him up: Who then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall turn on me, among the sons of men?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Am I a debtor? Hast thou ever heard</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whence come the gifts that are on me conferr'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My lavish fruit a thousand valleys fills,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And mine the herds, that graze a thousand hills:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth, sea, and air, all nature is my own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stars and sun are dust beneath my throne.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dar'st thou with the world's great Father vie,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou, who dost tremble at my creature's eye?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At full my huge leviathan shall rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Boast all his strength, and spread his wondrous size.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who, great in arms, e'er stripp'd his shining mail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or crown'd his triumph with a single scale?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose heart sustains him to draw near? <a id="noteref_41" name="noteref_41" href="#note_41"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">41</span></span></a>Behold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Destruction yawns; his spacious jaws unfold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, marshall'd round the wide expanse, disclose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Teeth edg'd with death, and crowding rows on rows:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What hideous fangs on either side arise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what a deep abyss between them lies!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mete with thy lance, and with thy plummet sound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The one how long, the other how profound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His bulk is charg'd with such a furious soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That clouds of smoke from his spread nostrils roll,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As from a furnace; and, when rous'd his ire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><a id="noteref_42" name="noteref_42" href="#note_42"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">42</span></span></a>Fate issues from his jaws in streams of fire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The rage of tempests, and the roar of seas,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy terror, this thy great superior please;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Strength on his ample shoulder sits in state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His well-join'd limbs are dreadfully complete;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His flakes of solid flesh are slow to part;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As steel his nerves, as adamant his heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When, late awak'd, he rears him from the floods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, stretching forth his stature to the clouds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Writhes in the sun aloft his scaly height,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And strikes the distant hills with transient light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Far round are fatal damps of terror spread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mighty fear, nor blush to own their dread.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em"><a id="noteref_43" name="noteref_43" href="#note_43"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">43</span></span></a>Large is his front; and, when his burnish'd eyes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lift their broad lids, the morning seems to rise.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In vain may death in various shapes invade,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The swift-wing'd arrow, the descending blade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His naked breast their impotence defies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The dart rebounds, the brittle fauchion flies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shut in himself, the war without he hears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Safe in the tempest of their rattling spears;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The cumber'd strand their wasted volleys strow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His sport, the rage and labour of the foe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His pastimes like a cauldron boil the flood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And blacken ocean with the rising mud;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The billows feel him, as he works his way;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His hoary footsteps shine along the sea;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The foam high-wrought, with white divides the green,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And distant sailors point where death has been.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His like earth bears not on her spacious face:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alone in nature stands his dauntless race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For utter ignorance of fear renown'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In wrath he rolls his baleful eye around:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Makes every swoln, disdainful heart, subside,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And holds dominion o'er the sons of pride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then the Chaldæan eas'd his lab'ring breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With full conviction of his crime opprest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Thou canst accomplish all things, Lord of might:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every thought is naked to thy sight.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, oh! thy ways are wonderful, and lie</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond the deepest reach of mortal eye.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oft have I heard of thine Almighty power;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But never saw thee till this dreadful hour.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'erwhelm'd with shame, the Lord of life I see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Abhor myself, and give my soul to thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor shall my weakness tempt thine anger more:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man is not made to question, but adore."</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc37" id="toc37"></a><a name="pdf38" id="pdf38"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">On Michael Angelo's Famous Piece of the Crucifixion;</span></h1> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Who Is Said To Have Stabbed a Person That He Might Draw It More Naturally.</span><a id="noteref_44" name="noteref_44" href="#note_44"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">44</span></span></a></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whilst his Redeemer on his canvass dies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stabb'd at his feet his brother weltering lies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The daring artist, cruelly serene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Views the pale cheek and the distorted mien;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He drains off life by drops, and, deaf to cries,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Examines every spirit as it flies:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He studies torment, dives in mortal woe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To rouse up every pang repeats his blow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each rising agony, each dreadful grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet warm transplanting to his Saviour's face.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oh glorious theft! oh nobly wicked draught!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With its full charge of death each feature fraught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such wondrous force the magic colours boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From his own skill he starts in horror lost.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc39" id="toc39"></a><a name="pdf40" id="pdf40"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">To Mr. Addison,</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">On the Tragedy of Cato.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What do we see? Is Cato then become</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A greater name in Britain than in Rome?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Does mankind now admire his virtues more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though Lucan, Horace, Virgil, wrote before?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How will posterity this truth explain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Cato begins to live in Anna's reign."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world's great chiefs, in council or in arms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rise in your lines with more exalted charms;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Illustrious deeds in distant nations wrought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And virtues by departed heroes taught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Raise in your soul a pure immortal flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Adorn your life, and consecrate your fame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To your renown all ages you subdue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Cæsar fought, and Cato bled for you.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">All Souls Coll. Oxon.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc41" id="toc41"></a><a name="pdf42" id="pdf42"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Historical Epilogue to the Brothers.</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Tragedy.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An Epilogue, through custom, is your right,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But ne'er perhaps was needful till this night:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To-night the virtuous falls, the guilty flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Guilt's dreadful close our narrow scene denies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In history's authentic record read</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What ample vengeance gluts Demetrius' shade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vengeance so great, that, when his tale is told,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With pity some e'en Perseus may behold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Perseus surviv'd, indeed, and fill'd the throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But ceaseless cares in conquest made him groan:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor reign'd he long; from Rome swift thunder flew,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And headlong from his throne the tyrant threw:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thrown headlong down, by Rome in triumph led,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For this night's deed his perjur'd bosom bled:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His brother's ghost each moment made him start,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all his father's anguish rent his heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When, rob'd in black, his children round him hung,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And their rais'd arms in early sorrow wrung;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The younger smil'd, unconscious of their woe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At which thy tears, O Rome! began to flow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So sad the scene! What then must Perseus feel,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To see Jove's race attend the victor's wheel:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To see the slaves of his worst foes increase,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From such a source!—An emperor's embrace!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He sicken'd soon to death; and, what is worse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He well deserv'd, and felt, the coward's curse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unpitied, scorn'd, insulted his last hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Far, far from home, and in a vassal's power:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His pale cheek rested on his shameful chain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No friend to mourn, no flatterer to feign;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No suit retards, no comfort soothes his doom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And not one tear bedews a monarch's tomb.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor ends it thus—dire vengeance to complete,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His ancient empire falling shares his fate:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His throne forgot! his weeping country chain'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nations ask—where Alexander reign'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As public woes a prince's crime pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So public blessings are his virtue's due.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shout, Britons, shout—auspicious fortune bless!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cry, Long live—Our title to success!</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc43" id="toc43"></a><a name="pdf44" id="pdf44"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Epitaph</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">On Lord Aubrey Beauclerk</span><a id="noteref_45" name="noteref_45" href="#note_45"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">45</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 144%">, in Westminster Abbey, 1740.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whilst Britain boasts her empire o'er the deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This marble shall compel the brave to weep:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As men, as Britons, and as soldiers, mourn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis dauntless, loyal, virtuous Beauclerk's urn.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sweet were his manners, as his soul was great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ripe his worth, though immature his fate;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each tender grace that joy and love inspires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Living, he mingled with his martial fires:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dying, he bid Britannia's thunders roar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Spain still felt him, when he breath'd no more.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc45" id="toc45"></a><a name="pdf46" id="pdf46"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Epitaph at Welwyn, Hertfordshire.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em">If fond of what is rare, attend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 12.00em">Here lies an honest man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 16.00em">Of perfect piety,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 14.00em">Of lamblike patience,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 12.00em">My friend, James Barker;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em">To whom I pay this mean memorial,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em"> For what deserves the greatest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 18.00em">An example</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which shone through all the clouds of fortune,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 12.00em">Industrious in low estate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The lesson and reproach of those above him.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 14.00em">To lay this little stone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 16.00em">Is my ambition;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 16.00em">While others rear</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The polish'd marbles of the great!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 12.00em"> Vain pomp;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A turf o'er virtue charms us more.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">E. Y. 1749.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc47" id="toc47"></a><a name="pdf48" id="pdf48"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">A Letter to Mr. Tickell,</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Occasioned by the Death of the Right Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq., 1719.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—Tu nunc eris alter ab illo.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O long with me in Oxford groves confin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In social arts and sacred friendship join'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fair Isis' sorrow, and fair Isis' boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lost from her side, but fortunately lost;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy wonted aid, my dear companion! bring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And teach me thy departed friend to sing:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A darling theme! once powerful to inspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And now to melt, the muses' mournful choir:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, and now first, we freely dare commend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His modest worth, nor shall our praise offend.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Early he bloom'd amid the learned train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ravish'd Isis listen'd to his strain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"See, see," she cried, "old Maro's muse appears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wak'd from her slumber of two thousand years:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her finish'd charms to Addison she brings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thinks in his thought, and in his numbers sings.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All read transported his pure classic page;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Read, and forget their climate and their age."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The state, when now his rising fame was known,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' unrival'd genius challeng'd for her own,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor would that one, for scenes for action strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Should let a life evaporate in song.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As health and strength the brightest charms dispense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wit is the blossom of the soundest sense:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet few, how few, with lofty thoughts inspir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With quickness pointed, and with rapture fir'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In conscious pride their own importance find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Blind to themselves, as the hard world is blind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wit they esteem a gay but worthless power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The slight amusement of a leisure hour;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unmindful that, conceal'd from vulgar eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Majestic wisdom wears the bright disguise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Poor Dido fondled thus, with idle joy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dread Cupid, lurking in the Trojan boy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lightly she toy'd, and trifled with his charms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And knew not that a god was in her arms.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who greatest excellence of thought could boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In action, too, have been distinguish'd most:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This Sommers<a id="noteref_46" name="noteref_46" href="#note_46"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">46</span></span></a> knew, and Addison sent forth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the malignant regions of the north,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To be matur'd in more indulgent skies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where all the vigour of the soul can rise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' warmer veins where sprightlier spirits run,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sense enliven'd sparkles in the sun.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With secret pain the prudent patriot gave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The hopes of Britain to the rolling wave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Anxious, the charge to all the stars resign'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And plac'd a confidence in sea and wind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ausonia soon receiv'd her wondering guest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And equal wonder in her turn confess'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To see her fervours rival'd by the pole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her lustre beaming from a northern soul:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In like surprise was her Æneas lost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To find his picture grace a foreign coast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now the wide field of Europe he surveys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Compares her kings, her thrones and empires weighs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In ripen'd judgment and consummate thought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Great work! by Nassau's favour cheaply bought.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He now returns to Britain a support,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wise in her senate, graceful in her court;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when the public welfare would permit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The source of learning, and the soul of wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O Warwick! (whom the muse is fond to name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And kindles, conscious of her future theme,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O Warwick! by divine contagion bright!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How early didst thou catch his radiant light!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By him inspir'd, how shine before thy time,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And leave thy years, and leap into thy prime!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On some warm bank, thus, fortunately born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A rose-bud opens to a summer's morn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Full-blown ere noon her fragrant pride displays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shows th' abundance of her purple rays.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wit, as her bays, was once a barren tree;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We now, surpris'd, her fruitful branches see;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, orange-like, till his auspicious time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It grew indeed, but shiver'd in our clime:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He first the plant to richer gardens led,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fix'd, indulgent, in a warmer bed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The nation, pleas'd, enjoys the rich produce,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gathers from her ornament her use.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When loose from public cares the grove he sought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fill'd the leisure interval with thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The various labours of his easy page,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A chance amusement, polish'd half an age.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond this truth old bards could scarce invent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who durst to frame a world by accident.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What he has sung, how early and how well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Thames shall boast, and Roman Tiber tell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A glory more sublime remains in store,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since such his talents, that he sung no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No fuller proof of power th' Almighty gave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Making the sea, than curbing her proud wave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nought can the genius of his works transcend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But their fair purpose and important end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To rouse the war for injur'd Europe's laws,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To steel the patriot in great Brunswick's cause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With virtue's charms to kindle sacred love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or paint th' eternal bowers of bliss above.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where hadst thou room, great author! where to roll</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mighty theme of an immortal soul?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through paths unknown, unbeaten, whence were brought</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy proofs so strong for immaterial thought?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One let me join, all other may excel.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"How could a mortal essence think so well?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But why so large in the great writer's praise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More lofty subjects should my numbers raise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In him (illustrious rivalry!) contend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The statesman, patriot, Christian, and the friend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His glory such, it borders on disgrace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To say he sung the best of human race.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In joy once join'd, in sorrow now for years,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Partner in grief, and brother of my tears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tickell! accept this verse, thy mournful due;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thou further shalt the sacred theme pursue;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, as thy strain describes the matchless man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy life shall second what thy muse began.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though sweet the numbers, though a fire divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dart through the whole, and burn in every line,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who strives not for that excellence he draws,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is stain'd by fame, and suffers from applause.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But haste to thy illustrious task; prepare</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The noble work well trusted to thy care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The gift<a id="noteref_47" name="noteref_47" href="#note_47"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">47</span></span></a> bequeath'd by Addison's command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To Craggs made sacred by his dying hand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Collect the labours, join the various rays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The scatter'd light in one united blaze;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then bear to him so true, so truly lov'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In life distinguished, and in death approv'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' immortal legacy. He hangs awhile</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In generous anguish o'er the glorious pile;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With anxious pleasure the known page reviews,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the dear pledge with falling tears bedews.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What though thy tears, pour'd o'er thy godlike friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy other cares for Britain's weal suspend?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Think not, O patriot! while thy eyes o'erflow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those cares suspended for a private woe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy love to him is to thy country shown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He mourns for her who mourns for Addison.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc49" id="toc49"></a><a name="pdf50" id="pdf50"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Reflections on the Public Situation of the Kingdom</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Inscribed to the Duke of Newcastle.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Holles! immortal in far more than fame!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be thou illustrious in far more than power.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Great things are small when greater rise to view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' station'd high, and press'd with public cares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Disdain not to peruse my serious song,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which peradventure may push by the world:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of a few moments rob Britannia's weal,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And leave Europa's counsels less mature!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For thou art noble, and the theme is great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor shall or Europe or Britannia blame</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thine absent ear, but gain by the delay.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Long vers'd in senates and in cabinets,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">States' intricate demands and high debates!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As thou of use to those, so this to thee;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in a point that empire far outweighs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That far outweighs all Europe's thrones in one.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let greatness prove its title to be great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis power's supreme prerogative to stamp</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On other minds an image of its own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bend the strong influence of high place, to stem</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The stream that sweeps away the country's weal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Stygian stream, the torrent of our guilt.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Far as thou mayst give life to virtue's cause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let not the ties of personal regard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Betray the nation's trust to feeble hands:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let not fomented flames of private pique</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Prey on the vitals of the public good:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let not our streets with blasphemies resound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor lewdness whisper where the laws can reach:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let not best laws, the wisdom of our sires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Turn satires on their sunk degenerate sons,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bastards of their blood! and serve no point</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But with more emphasis to call them fools:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let not our rank enormities unhinge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Britannia's welfare from divine support.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Such deeds the minister, the prince adorn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No power is shown but in such deeds as these:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All, all is impotence but acting right;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And where's the statesman but would show his power?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To prince and people thou, of equal zeal!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name="Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be it henceforward but thy second care</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To grace thy country, and support the throne;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though this supported, that adorn'd so well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A throne superior our first homage claims;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To Cæsar's Cæsar our first tribute due:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A tribute which, unpaid, makes specious wrong</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And splendid sacrilege of all beside:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Illustrious followers; we must first be just;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what so just as awe for the supreme?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less fear we rugged ruffians of the north,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than virtue's well-clad rebels nearer home</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less Loyola's disguis'd, all-aping sons,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than traitors lurking in our appetites;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less all the legions Seine and Tagus send,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than unrein'd passions rushing on our peace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yon savage mountaineers are tame to these.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Against those rioters send forth the laws,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And break to reason's yoke their wild careers.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Prudence for all things points the proper hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though some seem more importunate and great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' Britain's generous views and interests spread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond the narrow circle of her shores,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And their grand entries make on distant lands;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though Britain's genius the wide wave bestrides,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, like a vast Colossus, towering stands</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With one foot planted on the continent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet be not wholly wrapp'd in public cares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' such high cares should call as call'd of late;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The cause of kings and emperors adjourn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Europe's little balance drop awhile;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For greater drop it: ponder and adjust</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The rival interests and contending claims</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of life and death, of now and of for-ever;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sublimest theme; and needful as sublime.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus great Eliza's oracles renown'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus Walsingham and Raleigh, (Britain's boasts!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus every statesman thought that ever—died.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There's inspiration in a sable hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Death's approach makes politicians wise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When thunderstruck, that eagle Wolsey fell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When royal favour, as an ebbing sea,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like a leviathan, his grandeur left,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His gasping grandeur! naked on the strand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Naked of human, doubtful of divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Assistance; no more wallowing in his wealth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Spouting proud foams of insolence no more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On what, then, smote his heart, uncardinal'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sunk beneath the level of a man!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On the grand article, the sum of things!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The point of the first magnitude! that point</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tubes mounted in a court, but rarely reach;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some painted cloud still intercepts their sight.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">First right to judge; then choose; then persevere,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Steadfast, as if a crown or mistress call'd.—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These, these are politics will stand the test,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When finer politics their masters sting,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And statesmen fain would shrink to common men.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These, these are politics will answer now,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(When common men would fain to statesmen swell,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond a Machiavel's or Tencin's scheme.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg 219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All safety rests on honest counsels: these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Immortalize the statesman, bless the state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Make the prince triumph, and the people smile;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In peace rever'd, or terrible in arms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Close-leagued with an invincible ally,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which honest counsels never fail to fix</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In favour of an unabandon'd land;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A land—that starts at such a land as this,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A parliament, so principled, will sink</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All ancient schools of empire in disgrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Britain's glory, rising from the dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will fill the world, loud fame's superior song.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Britain!—that word pronounc'd is an alarm;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It warms the blood, though frozen in our veins;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awakes the soul, and sends her to the field,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enamour'd of the glorious face of Death.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Britain!—there's noble magic in the sound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O what illustrious images arise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Embattled, round me, blaze the pomps of war!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By sea, by land, at home, in foreign climes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What full-blown laurels on our fathers' brows!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye radiant trophies! and imperial spoils!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye scenes!—astonishing to modern sight!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let me, at least, enjoy you in a dream.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why vanish? Stay, ye godlike strangers! stay:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Strangers!—I wrong my countrymen: they wake;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">High beats the pulse: the noble pulse of war</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beats to that ancient measure, that grand march</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which then prevail'd, when Britain highest soar'd,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg 220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every battle paid for heroes slain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No more our great forefathers stain our cheeks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With blushes; their renown our shame no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In military garb, and sudden arms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Up starts old Britain; crosiers are laid by;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Trade wields the sword, and agriculture leaves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her half-turn'd furrow: other harvests fire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A nobler avarice, avarice of renown!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And laurels are the growth of every field.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In distant courts is our commotion felt;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And less like gods sit monarches on their thrones.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What arm can want or sinews or success,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which, lifted from an honest heart, descends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With all the weight of British wrath, to cleave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The papal mitre, or the Gallic chain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At every stroke, and save a sinking land?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or death or victory must be resolv'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To dream of mercy, O how tame! how mad!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where, o'er black deeds the crucifix display'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fools think Heaven purchas'd by the blood they shed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By giving, not supporting, pains and death!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor simple death! where they the greatest saints</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who most subdue all tenderness of heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Students in torture! where, in zeal to him,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose darling title is the Prince of Peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The best turn ruthless butchers, for our sakes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To save us in a world they recommend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet forbear, themselves with earth content;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What modesty!—such virtues Rome adorn!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg 221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And chiefly those who Rome's first honours wear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose name from Jesus, and whose hearts from hell!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall a pope-bred princeling crawl ashore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Replete with venom, guiltless of a sting,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And whistle cut-throats, with those swords that scrap'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their barren rocks for wretched sustenance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To cut his passage to the British throne?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One that has suck'd in malice with his milk,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Malice, to Britain, liberty, and truth?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less savage was his brother-robber's nurse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The howling nurse of plundering Romulus,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ere yet far worse than pagan harbour'd there.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hail to the brave! be Britain Britain still:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Britain! high favour'd of indulgent Heaven!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nature's anointed empress of the deep!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The nurse of merchants, who can purchase crowns!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Supreme in commerce! that exuberant source</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of wealth, the nerve of war; of wealth, the blood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The circling current in a nation's veins,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To set high bloom on the fair face of peace!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This once so celebrated seat of power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From which escap'd the mighty Cæsar triumph'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of Gallic lilies this eternal blast!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This terror of armadas! this true bolt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ethereal-temper'd, to repress the vain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Salmonean thunders from the papal chair!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This small isle wide-realm'd monarchs eye with awe!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which says to their ambition's foaming waves,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name="Pg222" id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Thus far, nor farther!"—Let her hold, in life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nought dear disjoin'd from freedom and renown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Renown, our ancestors' great legacy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To be transmitted to their latest sons.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By thoughts inglorious, and un-British deeds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their cancel'd will is impiously profan'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inhumanly disturb'd their sacred dust.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their sacred dust with recent laurels crown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By your own valour won. This sacred isle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cut from the continent, that world of slaves;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This temple built by Heaven's peculiar care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In a recess from the contagious world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With ocean pour'd around it for its guard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dedicated, long, to liberty,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That health, that strength, that bloom, of civil life!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This temple of still more divine; of faith</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sifted from errors, purified by flames,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like gold, to take anew truth's heavenly stamp,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And (rising both in lustre and in weight)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With her bless'd Master's unmaim'd image shine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why should she longer droop? why longer act</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As an accomplice with the plots of Rome?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why longer lend an edge to Bourbon's sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And give him leave, among his dastard troops,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To muster that strong succour, Albion's crimes?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Send his self-impotent ambition aid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And crown the conquest of her fiercest foes?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where are her foes most fatal? Blushing truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"In her friends' vices,"—with a sigh replies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Empire on virtue's rock unshaken stands;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg 223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flux as the billows, when in vice dissolv'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If Heaven reclaims us by the scourge of war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What thanks are due to Paris and Madrid?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Would they a revolution?—Aid their aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But be the revolution—in our hearts!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Wouldst thou (whose hand is at the helm) the bark,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The shaken bark of Britain, should outride</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The present blast, and every future storm?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give it that ballast which alone has weight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With Him whom wind, and waves, and war, obey,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Persist. Are others subtle? Thou be wise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above the Florentine's court-science raise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stand forth a patriot of the moral world;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pattern, and the patron, of the just:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus strengthen Britain's military strength;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give its own terror to the sword she draws.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ask you, "What mean I?"—The most obvious truth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Armies and fleets alone ne'er won the day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When our proud arms are once disarm'd, disarm'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of aid from Him by whom the mighty fall;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of aid from Him by whom the feeble stand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who takes away the keenest edge of battle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or gives the sword commission to destroy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who blasts, or bids the martial laurel bloom—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Emasculated, then, most manly might;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, though the might remains, it nought avails:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then wither'd weakness foils the sinewy arm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of man's meridian and high-hearted power:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg 224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our naval thunders, and our tented fields</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With travel'd banners fanning southern climes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What do they? This; and more what can they do?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When heap'd the measure of a kingdom's crimes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The prince most dauntless, the first plume of war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By such bold inroads into foreign lands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such elongation of our armaments,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But stretches out the guilty nation's neck,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While Heaven commands her executioner,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some less abandon'd nation, to discharge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her full-ripe vengeance in a final blow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tell the world, "Not strong is human strength;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And that the proudest empire holds of Heaven."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O Britain! often rescued, often crown'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond thy merit and most sanguine hopes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With all that's great in war, or sweet in peace!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Know from what source thy signal blessings flow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though bless'd with spirits ardent in the field,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though cover'd various oceans with thy fleets,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though fenc'd with rocks, and moated by the main,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy trust repose in a far stronger guard;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Him, who thee, though naked, could defend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' weak, could strengthen; ruin'd, could restore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How oft, to tell what arm defends thine isle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To guard her welfare, and yet check her pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have the winds snatch'd the victory from war?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, rather, won the day, when war despair'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How oft has providential succour aw'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Aw'd while it bless'd us, conscious of our guilt;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Struck dead all confidence in human aid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, while we triumph'd, made us tremble too!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Well may we tremble now; what manners reign?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But wherefore ask we, when a true reply</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Would shock too much? Kind Heaven! avert events</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose fatal nature might reply too plain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven's half-bar'd arm of vengeance has been wav'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In northern skies, and pointed to the south.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vengeance delay'd but gathers and ferments;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More formidably blackens in the wind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Brews deeper draughts of unrelenting wrath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And higher charges the suspended storm.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"That public vice portends a public fall"—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is this conjecture of adventurous thought!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or pious coward's pulpit cushion'd dream;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Far from it. This is certain; this is fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What says experience, in her awful chair</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of ages, her authentic annals spread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Around her? What says reason eagle-eyed?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, what says common sense, with common care</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Weighing events, and causes, in her scale?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All give one verdict, one decision sign;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And this the sentence Delphos could not mend:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Whatever secondary props may rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From politics, to build the public peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The basis is the manners of the land.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When rotten these, the politician's wiles</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But struggle with destruction, as a child</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page226">[pg 226]</span><a name="Pg226" id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With giants huge, or giants with a Jove.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The statesman's arts to conjure up a peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or military phantoms void of force,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But scare away the vultures for an hour;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The scent cadaverous (for, oh! how rank</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The stench of profligates!) soon lures them back</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On the proud flutter of a Gallic wing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Soon they return; soon make their full descent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Soon glut their rage, and riot in our ruin;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their idols grac'd and gorgeous with our spoils,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of universal empire sure presage!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till now repell'd by seas of British blood."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And whence the manners of the multitude?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The colours of their manners, black or fair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Falls from above; from the complexion falls</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of state Othellos, or white men in power:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And from the greater height example falls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Greater the weight, and deeper its impress</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In ranks inferior, passive to the stroke:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the court-mint, of hearts the current coin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pupil presses, but the pattern drives.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What bonds then, bonds how manifold, and strong</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To duty, double duty, are the great!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And are there Samsons that can burst them all?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yes; and great minds that stand in need of none,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose pulse beats virtues, and whose generous blood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Aids mental motives to push on renown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In emulation of their glorious sires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From whom rolls down the consecrated stream.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name="Pg227" id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some sow good seeds in the glad people's hearts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some cursed tares, like Satan in the text:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This makes a foe most fatal to the state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A foe who (like a wizard in his cell)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In his dark cabinet of crooked schemes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Resembling Cuma's gloomy grot, the forge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of boasted oracles, and real lies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Aided, perhaps, by second-sighted Scots,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">French magi, relics riding post from Rome,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A gothic hero<a id="noteref_48" name="noteref_48" href="#note_48"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">48</span></span></a> rising from the dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And changing for spruce plaid his dirty shroud,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With succour suitable from lower still,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A foe who, these concurring to the charm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Excites those storms that shall o'erturn the state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rend up her ancient honours by the root,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lay the boast of ages, the rever'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of nations, the dear-bought with sumless wealth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And blood illustrious, (spite of her La Hogues,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her Cresseys, and her Blenheims,) in the dust.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How must this strike a horror thro' the breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' every generous breast where honour reigns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' every breast where honour claims a share!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yes, and thro' every breast of honour void!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This thought might animate the dregs of men;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ferment them into spirit; give them fire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To fight the cause, the black opprobrious cause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Foul core of all!—corruption at our hearts.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page228">[pg 228]</span><a name="Pg228" id="Pg228" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What wreck of empire has the stream of time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Swept, with her vices, from the mountain height</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of grandeur, deified by half mankind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To dark oblivion's melancholy lake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or flagrant infamy's eternal brand!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those names, at which surrounding nations shook,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those names ador'd, a nuisance! or forgot!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor this the caprice of a doubtful die,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But Nature's course; no single chance against it.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For know, my lord! 'tis writ in adamant,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis fixt, as is the basis of the world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose kingdoms stand or fall by the decree.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What saw these eyes, surpris'd!—Yet why surpris'd—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For aid divine the crisis seem'd to call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And how divine was the monition given!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As late I walk'd the night in troubled thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My peace disturb'd by rumours from the north,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While thunder o'er my head, portentous, roll'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As giving signal of some strange event,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And ocean groan'd beneath for her he lov'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Albion the fair! so long his empire's queen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose reign is, now, contested by her foes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On her white cliffs (a tablet broad and bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Strongly reflecting the pale lunar ray)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By fate's own iron pen I saw it writ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thus the title ran:</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page229">[pg 229]</span><a name="Pg229" id="Pg229" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Stateman's Creed.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Ye states! and empires! nor of empires least,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though least in size, hear, Britain! thou whose lot,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose final lot, is in the balance laid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Irresolutely play the doubtful scales,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor know'st thou which will win.—Know then from me,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As govern'd well or ill, states sink or rise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">State ministers, as upright or corrupt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are balm or poison in a nation's veins!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Health or distemper, hasten or retard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The period of her pride, her day of doom:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And though, for reasons obvious to the wise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Just Providence deals otherwise with men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet believe, Britons! nor too late believe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis fix'd! by fate irrevocably fix'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Virtue and vice are empire's life and death."</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus it is written—Heard you not a groan?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is Britain on her death-bed?—No, that groan</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Was utter'd by her foes—but soon the scale,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If this divine monition is despis'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May turn against us. Read it, ye who rule!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With reverence read; with steadfastness believe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With courage act as such belief inspires;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then shall your glory stand like fate's decree;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then shall your name in adamant be writ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In records that defy the tooth of time,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By nations sav'd, resounding your applause.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page230">[pg 230]</span><a name="Pg230" id="Pg230" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While deep beyond your monument's proud base,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In black oblivion's kennel, shall be trod</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their execrable names, who, high in power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And deep in guilt, most ominously shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(The meteors of the state!) give vice her head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To license lewd let loose the public rein;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Quench every spark of conscience in the land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And triumph in the profligate's applause:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or who to the first bidder sell their souls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their country sell, sell all their fathers bought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With funds exhausted and exhausted veins,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To demons, by his holiness ordain'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To propagate the gospel—penn'd at Rome;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hawk'd through the world by consecrated bulls;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And how illustrated?—by Smithfleld flames:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who plunge (but not like Curtius) down the gulf,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Down narrow-minded self's voracious gulf,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which gapes and swallows all they swore to save:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hate all that lifted heroes into gods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hug the horrors of a victor's chain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of bodies politic that destin'd hell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inflicted here, since here their beings end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fall from foes detested and despis'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On disbelievers—of the statesman's creed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Note, here, my lord, (unnoted yet it lies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By most, or all,) these truths political</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Serve more than public ends: this creed of states</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Seconds, and irresistibly supports,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Christian creed. Are you surpris'd?—Attend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on the statesman's build a nobler name.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page231">[pg 231]</span><a name="Pg231" id="Pg231" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This punctual justice exercis'd on states,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With which authentic chronicle abounds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As all men know, and therefore must believe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This vengeance pour'd on nations ripe in guilt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pour'd on them here, where only they exist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What is it but an argument of sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or rather demonstration, to support</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our feeble faith—"That they who states compose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That men who stand not bounded by the grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall meet like measure at their proper hour?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For God is equal, similarly deals</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With states and persons, or he were not God!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What means a rectitude immutable?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A pattern here of universal right.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What, then, shall rescue an abandon'd man?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing, it is replied. Replied, by whom?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Replied by politicians well as priests:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Writ sacred set aside, mankind's own writ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The whole world's annals; these pronounce his doom.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus (what might seem a daring paradox)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">E'en politics advance divinity:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True masters there are better scholars here,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who travel history in quest of schemes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To govern nations, or perhaps oppress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May there start truths that other aims inspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, like Candace's eunuch, as they read,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By Providence turn Christians on their road:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Digging for silver, they may strike on gold;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page232">[pg 232]</span><a name="Pg232" id="Pg232" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May be surpris'd with better than they sought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And entertain an angel unawares.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor is divinity ungrateful found.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As politics advance divinity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus, in return, divinity promotes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True politics, and crowns the statesman's praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All wisdoms are but branches of the chief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And statesmen found but shoots of honest men.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are this world's witchcrafts pleaded in excuse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For deviations in our moral line?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This, and the next world, view'd with such an eye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As suits a statesman, such as keeps in view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His own exalted science, both conspire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To recommend and fix us in the right.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If we reward the politics of Heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The grand administration of the whole,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's the next world? A supplement of this:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without it, justice is defective here;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Just as to states, defective as to men:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If so, what is this world? As sure as right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sits in Heaven's throne, a prophet of the next.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Prize you the prophet? then believe him too:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His prophecy more precious than his smile.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How comes it then to pass, with most on earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That this should charm us, that should discompose?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Long as the statesman finds this case his own,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So long his politics are uncomplete;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In danger he; nor is the nation safe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But soon must rue his inauspicious power.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name="Pg233" id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What hence results? a truth that should resound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For ever awful in Britannia's ear:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Religion crowns the statesman and the man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sole source of public and of private peace."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This truth all men must own, and therefore will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And praise and preach it too:—and when that's done,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their compliment is paid, and 'tis forgot.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What highland pole-axe half so deep can wound?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But how dare I, so mean, presume so far?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Assume my seat in the dictator's chair?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pronounce, predict (as if indeed inspir'd),</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Promulge my censures, lay out all my throat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till hoarse in clamour on enormous crimes?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Two mighty columns rise in my support;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In their more awful and authentic voice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Record profane and sacred, drown the muse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' loud, and far out-thread her threatening song.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still further, Holles! suffer me to plead</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That I speak freely, as I speak to thee:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Guilt only startles at the name of guilt;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And truth, plain truth, is welcome to the wise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus what seem'd my presumption is thy praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Praise, and immortal praise, is virtue's claim;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And virtue's sphere is action: yet we grant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some merit to the trumpet's loud alarm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose clangour kindles cowards into men.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor shall the verse, perhaps, be quite forgot,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which talks of immortality, and bids,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name="Pg234" id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In every British breast, true glory rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As now the warbling lark awakes the morn.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To close, my lord! with that which all should close</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all begin, and strike us every hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though no war wak'd us, no black tempest frown'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The morning rises gay; yet gayest morn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less glorious after night's incumbent shades;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less glorious far bright nature, rich array'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With golden robes, in all the pomp of noon,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than the first feeble dawn of moral day?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sole day, (let those whom statesmen serve attend,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though the sun ripens diamonds for their crowns;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sole day worth his regard whom Heaven ordains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Undarken'd, to behold noon dark, and date,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the sun's death, and every planet's fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His all-illustrious and eternal year;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where statesmen and their monarchs, (names of awe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And distance here,) shall rank with common men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet own their glory never dawn'd before.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc51" id="toc51"></a><a name="pdf52" id="pdf52"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235" id="Pg235" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Resignation.</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">In Two Parts.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">fatness, when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Psalm</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> lxiii. 6.</span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Advertisement.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This was not intended for the public; there were many and +strong reasons against it, and are so still; but some extracts +of it, from the few copies which were given away, being got +into the printed papers, it was thought necessary to publish +something, lest a copy still more imperfect than this should +fall into the press: and it is hoped, that this unwelcome +occasion of publication may be some excuse for it.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As for the following stanzas, God Almighty's infinite power, +and marvellous goodness to man, is dwelt on, as the most +just and cogent reason for our cheerful and absolute resignation +to his will; nor are any of those topics declined, which +have a just tendency to promote that supreme virtue: such +as the vanity of this life, the value of the next, the approach +of death, &c.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc53" id="toc53"></a><a name="pdf54" id="pdf54"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Part I.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The days how few, how short the years</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of man's too rapid race!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A shorter in its place.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name="Pg236" id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They who the longest lease enjoy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Have told us with a sigh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That to be born seems little more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than to begin to die.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Numbers there are who feel this truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With fears alarm'd; and yet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In life's delusions lull'd asleep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This weighty truth forget:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And am not I to these akin?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Age slumbers o'er the quill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its honour blots, whate'er it writes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And am I writing still?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conscious of nature in decline,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And languor in my thoughts;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To soften censure, and abate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its rigour on my faults</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Permit me, madam! ere to you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The promis'd verse I pay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To touch on felt infirmity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sad sister of decay.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One world deceas'd, another born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Like Noah they behold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er whose white hairs, and furrow'd brows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Too many suns have roll'd:</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg 237]</span><a name="Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Happy the patriarch! he rejoic'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His second world to see:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My second world, though gay the scene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can boast no charms for me.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To me this brilliant age appears</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With desolation spread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Near all with whom I liv'd, and smil'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whilst life was life, are dead;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with them died my joys; the grave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Has broken nature's laws;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And clos'd, against this feeble frame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its partial cruel jaws;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cruel to spare! condemn'd to life!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A cloud impairs my sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My weak hand disobeys my will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And trembles as I write.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What shall I write? Thalia, tell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Say, long abandon'd muse!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What field of fancy shall I range?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What subject shall I choose?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A choice of moment high inspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And rescue me from shame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For doting on thy charms so late,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By grandeur in my theme.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238" id="Pg238" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond the themes, which most admire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which dazzle, or amaze,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond renown'd exploits of war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Bright charms, or empire's blaze,</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are themes, which, in a world of woe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can best appease our pain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, in an age of gaudy guilt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Gay folly's flood restrain;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Amidst the storms of life support</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A calm, unshaken mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with unfading laurels crown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The brow of the resign'd.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O resignation! yet unsung,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Untouch'd by former strains;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though claiming every muse's smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And every poet's pains,</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beneath life's evening, solemn shade,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I dedicate my page</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To thee, thou safest guard of youth!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thou sole support of age!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All other duties crescents are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of virtue faintly bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The glorious consummation, thou!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which fills her orb with light:</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg 239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How rarely fill'd! the love divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In evils to discern,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This the first lesson which we want,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The latest, which we learn;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A melancholy truth! for know,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Could our proud hearts resign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The distance greatly would decrease</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Twixt human and divine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But though full noble is my theme,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Full urgent is my call</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To soften sorrow, and forbid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The bursting tear to fall:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The task I dread; dare I to leave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of humble prose the shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And put to sea? a dangerous sea?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What throngs have sunk before!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How proud the poet's billow swells!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The God! the God! his boast:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A boast how vain! What wrecks abound!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Dead bards stench every coast.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What then am I? Shall I presume,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On such a moulten wing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above the general wreck to rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And in my winter, sing;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg 240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When nightingales, when sweetest bards</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Confine their charming song</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To summer's animating heats,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Content to warble young?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet write I must; a lady<a id="noteref_49" name="noteref_49" href="#note_49"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">49</span></span></a> sues;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How shameful her request!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My brain in labour for dull rhyme!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hers teeming with the best!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But you a stranger will excuse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor scorn his feeble strain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To you a stranger, but, through fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No stranger to your pain.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The ghost of grief deceas'd ascends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His old wound bleeds anew;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His sorrows are recall'd to life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By those he sees in you;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Too well he knows the twisting strings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of ardent hearts combin'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When rent asunder, how they bleed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How hard to be resign'd:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those tears you pour, his eyes have shed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The pang you feel, he felt;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus nature, loud as virtue, bids</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His heart at yours to melt.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page241">[pg 241]</span><a name="Pg241" id="Pg241" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what can heart, or head, suggest?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What sad experience say?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through truths austere, to peace we work</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our rugged, gloomy way:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What are we? whence? for what? and whither?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who know not, needs must mourn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But thought, bright daughter of the skies!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can tears to triumph turn.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thought is our armour, 'tis the mind's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Impenetrable shield,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When, sent by fate, we meet our foes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In sore affliction's field;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It plucks the frightful mask from ills,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Forbids pale fear to hide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beneath that dark disguise, a friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which turns affection's tide.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Affection frail! train'd up by sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From reason's channel strays:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And whilst it blindly points at peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our peace to pain betrays.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thought winds its fond, erroneous stream</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From daily dying flowers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To nourish rich immortal blooms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In amaranthine bowers;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page242">[pg 242]</span><a name="Pg242" id="Pg242" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whence throngs, in ecstasy, look down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On what once shock'd their sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thank the terrors of the past</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For ages of delight.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All withers here; who most possess</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are losers by their gain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stung by full proof, that, bad at best,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Life's idle all is vain:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vain, in its course, life's murmuring stream;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Did not its course offend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But murmur cease; life, then, would seem</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Still vainer, from its end.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How wretched! who, through cruel fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Have nothing to lament!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With the poor alms this world affords</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Deplorably content!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Had not the Greek his world mistook,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His wish had been most wise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To be content with but one world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Like him, we should despise.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of earth's revenue would you state</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A full account and fair?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We hope; and hope; and hope; then cast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The total up—-—-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 30.00em"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Despair.</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page243">[pg 243]</span><a name="Pg243" id="Pg243" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since vain all here, all future, vast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Embrace the lot assign'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven wounds to heal; its frowns are friends;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its stroke severe, most kind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But in laps'd nature rooted deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Blind error domineers;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on fools' errands, in the dark,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sends out our hopes and fears;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bids us for ever pains deplore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our pleasures overprize;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These oft persuade us to be weak;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Those urge us to be wise.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From virtue's rugged path to right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By pleasure are we brought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To flowery fields of wrong, and there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Pain chides us for our fault:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet whilst it chides, it speaks of peace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If folly is withstood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And says, time pays an easy price,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For our eternal good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In earth's dark cot, and in an hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And in delusion great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What an economist is man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To spend his whole estate,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page244">[pg 244]</span><a name="Pg244" id="Pg244" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And beggar an eternity!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For which as he was born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More worlds than one against it weigh'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As feathers he should scorn.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say not, your loss in triumph leads</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Religion's feeble strife;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Joys future amply reimburse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Joys bankrupts of this life.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But not deferr'd your joy so long,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It bears an early date;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Affliction's ready pay in hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Befriends our present state;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What are the tears, which trickle down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Her melancholy face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like liquid pearl? Like pearls of price,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">They purchase lasting peace.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grief softens hearts, and curbs the will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Impetuous passion tames,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And keeps insatiate, keen desire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From launching in extremes.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through time's dark womb, our judgment right,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If our dim eye was thrown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Clear should we see, the will divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Has but forestall'd our own;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page245">[pg 245]</span><a name="Pg245" id="Pg245" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At variance with our future wish,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Self-sever'd we complain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If so, the wounded, not the wound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Must answer for the pain:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The day shall come, and swift of wing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though you may think it slow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When, in the list of fortune's smiles,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">You'll enter frowns of woe.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For mark the path of Providence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This course it has pursued—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Pain is the parent, woe the womb,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of sound, important good:"</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our hearts are fasten'd to this world</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By strong and endless ties:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every sorrow cuts a string,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And urges us to rise:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twill sound severe—Yet rest assur'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I'm studious of your peace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though I should dare to give you joy—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Yes, joy of his decease:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An hour shall come, (you question this,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An hour, when you shall bless,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond the brightest beams of life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Dark days of your distress.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246">[pg 246]</span><a name="Pg246" id="Pg246" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hear then without surprise a truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A daughter truth to this,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Swift turns of fortune often tie</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A bleeding heart to bliss:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Esteem you this a paradox?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My sacred motto read;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A glorious truth! divinely sung</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By one, whose heart had bled;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To resignation swift he flew,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In her a friend he found,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A friend, which bless'd him with a smile</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When gasping with his wound.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On earth nought precious is obtain'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But what is painful too;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By travel, and to travel born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our sabbaths are but few:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To real joy we work our way,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Encountering many a shock,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ere found what truly charms; as found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A Venus in the block.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In some disaster, some severe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Appointment for our sins,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That mother blessing, (not so call'd,)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">True happiness, begins.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page247">[pg 247]</span><a name="Pg247" id="Pg247" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No martyr e'er defied the flames,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By stings of life unvext;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">First rose some quarrel with this world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then passion for the next.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You see, then, pangs are parent pangs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The pangs of happy birth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pangs, by which only can be born</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">True happiness on earth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The peopled earth look all around,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or through time's records run!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And say, what is a man unstruck?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It is a man undone.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This moment, am I deeply stung—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My bold pretence is tried;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When vain man boasts, heaven puts to proof</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The vauntings of his pride;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now need I, madam! your support.—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How exquisite the smart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How critically tim'd the news<a id="noteref_50" name="noteref_50" href="#note_50"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">50</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which strikes me to the heart!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pangs of which I spoke, I feel:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If worth like thine is born,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page248">[pg 248]</span><a name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O long-belov'd! I bless the blow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And triumph, whilst I mourn.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor mourn I long; by grief subdued,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By reason's empire shown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deep anguish comes by heaven's decree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Continues by our own;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when continued past its point,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Indulg'd in length of time,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grief is disgrac'd, and, what was fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Corrupts into a crime:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall I, criminally mean,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Myself and subject wrong?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No; my example shall support</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The subject of my song.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Madam! I grant your loss is great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor little is your gain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let that be weigh'd; when weigh'd aright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It richly pays your pain:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When heaven would kindly set us free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And earth's enchantment end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It takes the most effectual means,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And robs us of a friend.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But such a friend! and sigh no more?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis prudent; but severe:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page249">[pg 249]</span><a name="Pg249" id="Pg249" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven aid my weakness, and I drop</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All sorrow—with this tear.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Perhaps your settled grief to soothe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I should not vainly strive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But with soft balm your pain assuage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Had he been still alive;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose frequent aid brought kind relief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In my distress of thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ting'd with his beams my cloudy page,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And beautified a fault:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To touch our passions' secret springs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Was his peculiar care;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And deep his happy genius div'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In bosoms of the fair;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nature, which favours to the few,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All art beyond, imparts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To him presented, at his birth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The key of human hearts.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But not to me by him bequeath'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His gentle, smooth address;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His tender hand to touch the wound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In throbbing of distress;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Howe'er, proceed I must, unbless'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With Esculapian art:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page250">[pg 250]</span><a name="Pg250" id="Pg250" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Know, love sometimes, mistaken love!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Plays disaffection's part:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor lands, nor seas, nor suns, nor stars,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can soul from soul divide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They correspond from distant worlds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though transports are denied:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are you not, then, unkindly kind?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is not your love severe?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! stop that crystal source of woe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor wound him with a tear.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As those above from human bliss</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Receive increase of joy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May not a stroke from human woe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In part, their peace destroy?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He lives in those he left;—to what?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your, now, paternal care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Clear from its cloud your brighten'd eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It will discern him there;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In features, not of form alone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But those, I trust, of mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Auspicious to the public weal,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And to their fate resign'd.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Think on the tempests he sustain'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Revolve his battles won;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page251">[pg 251]</span><a name="Pg251" id="Pg251" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And let those prophesy your joy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From such a father's son:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is consolation what you seek?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Fan, then, his martial fire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And animate to flame the sparks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Bequeath'd him by his sire:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As nothing great is born in haste,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Wise nature's time allow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His father's laurels may descend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And flourish on his brow.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor, madam! be surpris'd to hear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That laurels may be due</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not more to heroes of the field,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">(Proud boasters!) than to you:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tender as is the female frame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Like that brave man you mourn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You are a soldier, and to fight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Superior battles born;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beneath a banner nobler far</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than ever was unfurl'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In fields of blood; a banner bright!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">High wav'd o'er all the world.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It, like a streaming meteor, casts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A universal light;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page252">[pg 252]</span><a name="Pg252" id="Pg252" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sheds day, sheds more, eternal day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On nations whelm'd in night.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beneath that banner, what exploit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can mount our glory higher,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than to sustain the dreadful blow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When those we love expire?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Go forth a moral Amazon;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Arm'd with undaunted thought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The battle won, though costing dear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">You'll think it cheaply bought:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The passive hero, who sits down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Unactive, and can smile</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beneath affliction's galling load,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Out-acts a Cæsar's toil:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The billows stain'd by slaughter'd foes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Inferior praise afford;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reason's a bloodless conqueror,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More glorious than the sword.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor can the thunders of huzzas,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From shouting nations, cause</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such sweet delight, as from your heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Soft whispers of applause:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The dear deceas'd so fam'd in arms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With what delight he'll view</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page253">[pg 253]</span><a name="Pg253" id="Pg253" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His triumphs on the main outdone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus conquer'd, twice, by you.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Share his delight; take heed to shun</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of bosoms most diseas'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That odd distemper, an absurd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Reluctance to be pleas'd:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some seem in love with sorrow's charms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And that foul fiend embrace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This temper let me justly brand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And stamp it with disgrace:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sorrow! of horrid parentage!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thou second-born of hell!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Against heaven's endless mercies pour'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How dar'st thou to rebel?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From black and noxious vapours bred,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And nurs'd by want of thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to the door of phrensy's self</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By perseverance brought,</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy most inglorious, coward tears</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From brutal eyes have ran:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Smiles, incommunicable smiles!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are radiant marks of man;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They cast a sudden glory round</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Th' illumin'd human face;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page254">[pg 254]</span><a name="Pg254" id="Pg254" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And light in sons of honest joy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Some beams of Moses' face:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is resignation's lesson hard?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Examine, we shall find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That duty gives up little more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than anguish of the mind;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Resign; and all the load of life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That moment you remove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its heavy tax, ten thousand cares</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Devolve on one above;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who bids us lay our burthen down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On his almighty hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Softens our duty to relief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To blessing a command.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For joy what cause! how every sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is courted from above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The year around, with presents rich,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The growth of endless love!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But most o'erlook the blessings pour'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Forget the wonders done,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And terminate, wrapp'd up in sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their prospect at the sun;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From that, their final point of view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From that their radiant goal,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page255">[pg 255]</span><a name="Pg255" id="Pg255" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On travel infinite of thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sets out the nobler soul,</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Broke loose from time's tenacious ties,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And earth's involving gloom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To range at last its vast domain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And talk with worlds to come:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They let unmark'd, and unemploy'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Life's idle moments run;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And doing nothing for themselves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Imagine nothing done;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fatal mistake! their fate goes on,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their dread account proceeds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And their not doing is set down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Amongst their darkest deeds;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though man sits still, and takes his ease;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">God is at work on man;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No means, no moment unemployed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To bless him, if he can.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But man consents not, boldly bent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To fashion his own fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man, a mere bungler in the trade,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Repents his crime too late;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence loud laments: let me thy cause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Indulgent father! plead;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page256">[pg 256]</span><a name="Pg256" id="Pg256" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all the wretches we deplore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Not one by thee was made.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What is thy whole creation fair?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of love divine the child;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Love brought it forth; and, from its birth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Has o'er it fondly smil'd:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, and through periods distant far,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Long ere the world began,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven is, and has in travail been,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its birth the good of man;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man holds in constant service bound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The blustering winds and seas;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor suns disdain to travel hard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their master, man, to please:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To final good the worst events</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Through secret channels run;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Finish for man their destin'd course,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As 'twas for man begun.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One point (observ'd, perhaps, by few)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Has often smote, and smites</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My mind, as demonstration strong;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That heaven in man delights:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's known to man of things unseen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of future worlds, or fates?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page257">[pg 257]</span><a name="Pg257" id="Pg257" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So much, nor more, than what to man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sublime affairs relates;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's revelation then? a list,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An inventory just</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of that poor insect's goods, so late</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Call'd out of night and dust.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What various motives to rejoice!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To render joy sincere,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has this no weight? our joy is felt</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beyond this narrow sphere:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Would we in heaven new heaven create,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And double its delight?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A smiling world, when heaven looks down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How pleasing in its sight!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Angels stoop forward from their thrones</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To hear its joyful lays;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As incense sweet enjoy, and join,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its aromatic praise:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have we no cause to fear the stroke</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of heaven's avenging rod,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When we presume to counteract</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A sympathetic God?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If we resign, our patience makes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His rod an armless wand;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page258">[pg 258]</span><a name="Pg258" id="Pg258" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If not, it darts a serpent's sting,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Like that in Moses' hand;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like that, it swallows up whate'er</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Earth's vain magicians bring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose baffled arts would boast below</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of joys a rival spring.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Consummate love! the list how large</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of blessings from thy hand!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To banish sorrow, and be blest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is thy supreme command.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Are such commands but ill obey'd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of bliss, shall we complain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man, who dares to be a wretch,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Deserves still greater pain.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Joy is our duty, glory, health;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The sunshine of the soul;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our best encomium on the power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who sweetly plans the whole:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Joy is our Eden still possess'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Begone, ignoble grief!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis joy makes gods, and men exalts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their nature, our relief;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Relief, for man to that must stoop,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And his due distance know;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page259">[pg 259]</span><a name="Pg259" id="Pg259" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Transport's the language of the sides,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Content the style below.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Content is joy, and joy in pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is joy and virtue too;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus, whilst good present we possess,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More precious we pursue:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of joy the more we have in hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The more have we to come;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Joy, like our money, interest bears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which daily swells the sum.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"But how to smile; to stem the tide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of nature in our veins;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is it not hard to weep in joy?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What then to smile in pains?"</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Victorious joy! which breaks the clouds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And struggles through a storm;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Proclaims the mind as great, as good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And bids it doubly charm:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If doubly charming in our sex,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A sex, by nature, bold;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What then in yours? 'tis diamond there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Triumphant o'er our gold.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And should not this complaint repress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And check the rising sigh?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page260">[pg 260]</span><a name="Pg260" id="Pg260" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet farther opiate to your pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I labour to supply.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since spirits greatly damp'd distort</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ideas of delight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Look through the medium of a friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To set your notions right:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As tears the sight, grief dims the soul;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its object dark appears;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True friendship, like a rising sun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The soul's horizon clears.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A friend's an optic to the mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With sorrow clouded o'er;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gives it strength of sight to see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Redress unseen before.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reason is somewhat rough in man;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Extremely smooth and fair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When she, to grace her manly strength,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Assumes a female air:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A friend<a id="noteref_51" name="noteref_51" href="#note_51"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">51</span></span></a> you have, and I the same,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whose prudent, soft address</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will bring to life those healing thoughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which died in your distress;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That friend, the spirit of my theme</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Extracting for your ease,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page261">[pg 261]</span><a name="Pg261" id="Pg261" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will leave to me the dreg, in thoughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Too common; such as these:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let those lament to whom full bowls</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of sparkling joys are given;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That triple bane inebriates life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Imbitters death, and hazards heaven:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Woe to the soul at perfect ease!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis brewing perfect pains;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lull'd reason sleeps, the pulse is king;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Despotic body reigns;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have you<a id="noteref_52" name="noteref_52" href="#note_52"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">52</span></span></a> ne'er pitied joy's gay scenes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And deem'd their glory dark?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alas! poor envy! she's stone-blind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And quite mistakes her mark:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her mark lies hid in sorrow's shades,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But sorrow well subdu'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in proud fortune's frown defied</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By meek, unborrow'd good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By resignation; all in that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A double friend may find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A wing to heaven, and, while on earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The pillow of mankind:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On pillows void of down, for rest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our restless hopes we place;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page262">[pg 262]</span><a name="Pg262" id="Pg262" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When hopes of heaven lie warm at heart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our hearts repose in peace:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The peace, which resignation yields,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who feel alone can guess;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis disbeliev'd by murmuring minds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">They must conclude it less:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The loss, or gain, of that alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Have we to hope or fear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That fate controls, and can invert</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The seasons of the year:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! the dark days, the year around,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of an impatient mind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thro' clouds, and storms, a summer breaks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To shine on the resign'd:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While man by that of every grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And virtue, is possess'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Foul vice her pandæmonium builds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In the rebellious breast;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By resignation we defeat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The worst that can annoy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And suffer, with far more repose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than worldlings can enjoy.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From small experience this I speak;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O! grant to those I love</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page263">[pg 263]</span><a name="Pg263" id="Pg263" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Experience fuller far, ye powers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who form our fates above!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My love were due, if not to those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who, leaving grandeur, came</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To shine on age in mean recess,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And light me to my theme!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A theme themselves! A theme, how rare!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The charms, which they display,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To triumph over captive heads,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are set in bright array:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With his own arms proud man's o'ercome,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His boasted laurels die:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Learning and genius, wiser grown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To female bosoms fly.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This revolution, fix'd by fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In fable was foretold;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The dark prediction puzzled wits,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor could the learn'd unfold:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But as those ladies'<a id="noteref_53" name="noteref_53" href="#note_53"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">53</span></span></a> works I read,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">They darted such a ray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The latent sense burst out at once,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And shone in open day:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So burst, full ripe, distended fruits,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When strongly strikes the sun;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page264">[pg 264]</span><a name="Pg264" id="Pg264" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And from the purple grape unpress'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Spontaneous nectars run.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pallas, ('tis said,) when Jove grew dull,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Forsook his drowsy brain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sprightly leap'd into the throne</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of wisdom's brighter reign;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her helmet took; that is, shot rays</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of formidable wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lance,—or, genius most acute,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which lines immortal writ;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gorgon shield,—or, power to fright</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Man's folly, dreadful shone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And many a blockhead (easy change!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Turn'd, instantly, to stone.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our authors male, as, then, did Jove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now scratch a damag'd head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And call for what once quarter'd there,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But find the goddess fled.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fruit of knowledge, golden fruit!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That once forbidden tree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hedg'd-in by surly man, is now</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To Britain's daughters free:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Eve (we know) of fruit so fair</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The noble thirst began;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page265">[pg 265]</span><a name="Pg265" id="Pg265" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And they, like her, have caus'd a fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A fall of fame in man:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And since of genius in our sex,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O Addison! with thee</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sun is set; how I rejoice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This sister lamp to see!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It sheds, like Cynthia, silver beams</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On man's nocturnal state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His lessen'd light, and languid powers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I show, whilst I relate.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc55" id="toc55"></a><a name="pdf56" id="pdf56"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Part II.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what in either sex, beyond</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All parts, our glory crowns?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"In ruffling seasons to be calm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And smile, when fortune frowns."</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven's choice is safer than our own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of ages past inquire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What the most formidable fate?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"To have our own desire."</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If, in your wrath, the worst of foes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">You wish extremely ill;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page266">[pg 266]</span><a name="Pg266" id="Pg266" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Expose him to the thunder's stroke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or that of his own will.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What numbers, rushing down the steep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of inclination strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have perish'd in their ardent wish!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Wish ardent, ever wrong!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis resignation's full reverse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Most wrong, as it implies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Error most fatal in our choice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Detachment from the skies.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By closing with the skies, we make</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Omnipotence our own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That done, how formidable ill's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whole army is o'erthrown!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No longer impotent, and frail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ourselves above we rise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We scarce believe ourselves below!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">We trespass on the skies!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Lord, the soul, and source of all,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whilst man enjoys his ease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is executing human will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In earth, and air, and seas;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond us, what can angels boast?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Archangels what require?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page267">[pg 267]</span><a name="Pg267" id="Pg267" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whate'er below, above, is done,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is done as——we desire.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What glory this for man so mean,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whose life is but a span!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This is meridian majesty!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This, the sublime of man!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond the boast of pagan song</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My sacred subject shines!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And for a foil the lustre takes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of Rome's exalted lines.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"All, that the sun surveys, subdued,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But Cato's mighty mind."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How grand! most true; yet far beneath</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The soul of the resign'd:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To more than kingdoms, more than worlds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To passion that gives law;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its matchless empire could have kept</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Great Cato's pride in awe;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That fatal pride, whose cruel point</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Transfix'd his noble breast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Far nobler! if his fate sustain'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And left to heaven the rest;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then he the palm had borne away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At distance Cæsar thrown;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page268">[pg 268]</span><a name="Pg268" id="Pg268" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Put him off cheaply with the world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And made the skies his own.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What cannot resignation do?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It wonders can perform;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That powerful charm, "Thy will be done,"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can lay the loudest storm.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Come, resignation! then, from fields,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where, mounted on the wing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A wing of flame, blest martyrs' souls</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ascended to their king.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who is it calls thee? one whose need</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Transcends the common size;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who stands in front against a foe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To which no equal rise:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In front he stands, the brink he treads</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of an eternal state;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How dreadful his appointed post!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How strongly arm'd by fate:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His threatening foe! what shadows deep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O'erwhelm his gloomy brow!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His dart tremendous!——at fourscore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My sole asylum, thou!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Haste, then, O resignation! haste,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis thine to reconcile</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page269">[pg 269]</span><a name="Pg269" id="Pg269" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My foe, and me; at thy approach</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My foe begins to smile:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! for that summit of my wish,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whilst here I draw my breath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That promise of eternal life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A glorious smile in death:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What sight, heaven's azure arch beneath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Has most of heaven to boast?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man resign'd; at once serene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And giving up the ghost.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At death's arrival they shall smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who, not in life o'er gay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Serious and frequent thought send out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To meet him on his way:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My gay coevals! (such there are)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If happiness is dear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Approaching death's alarming day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Discreetly let us fear:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fear of death is truly wise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Till wisdom can rise higher;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, arm'd with pious fortitude,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Death dreaded once, desire:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Grand climacteric vanities</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The vainest will despise;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page270">[pg 270]</span><a name="Pg270" id="Pg270" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shock'd, when beneath the snow of age</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Man immaturely dies:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But am not I myself the man?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No need abroad to roam</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In quest of faults to be chastis'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What cause to blush at home?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In life's decline, when men relapse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Into the sports of youth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The second child out-fools the first,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And tempts the lash of truth;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall a mere truant from the grave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With rival boys engage?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His trembling voice attempt to sing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And ape the poet's rage?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, madam! let me visit one,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My fault who, partly, shares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And tell myself, by telling him,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What more becomes our years;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And if your breast with prudent zeal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For resignation glows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You will not disapprove a just</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Resentment at its foes.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In youth, Voltaire! our foibles plead</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For some indulgence due;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page271">[pg 271]</span><a name="Pg271" id="Pg271" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When heads are white, their thoughts and aims</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Should change their colour too:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How are you cheated by your wit!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Old age is bound to pay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By nature's law, a mind discreet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For joys it takes away;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A mighty change is wrought by years,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Reversing human lot;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In age 'tis honour to lie hid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis praise to be forgot;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The wise, as flowers, which spread at noon,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And all their charms expose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When evening damps and shades descend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their evolutions close.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What though your muse has nobly soar'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is that our truth sublime?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ours, hoary friend! is to prefer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Eternity to time:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why close a life so justly fam'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With such bold trash as this?<a id="noteref_54" name="noteref_54" href="#note_54"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">54</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This for renown? yes, such as makes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Obscurity a bliss:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your trash, with mine, at open war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is obstinately bent,<a id="noteref_55" name="noteref_55" href="#note_55"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">55</span></span></a></div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page272">[pg 272]</span><a name="Pg272" id="Pg272" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like wits below, to sow your tares</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of gloom and discontent:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With so much sunshine at command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Why light with darkness mix?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why dash with pain our pleasure?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your Helicon with Styx?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your works in our divided minds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Repugnant passions raise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Confound us with a double stroke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">We shudder whilst we praise;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A curious web, as finely wrought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As genius can inspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From a black bag of poison spun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With horror we admire.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mean as it is, if this is read</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With a disdainful air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I can't forgive so great a foe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To my dear friend Voltaire:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Early I knew him, early prais'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And long to praise him late;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His genius greatly I admire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor would deplore his fate;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A fate how much to be deplor'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At which our nature starts;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page273">[pg 273]</span><a name="Pg273" id="Pg273" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Forbear to fall on your own sword.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To perish by your parts:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"But great your name"—To feed on air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Were then immortals born?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing is great, of which more great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More glorious is the scorn.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can fame your carcass from the worm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which gnaws us in the grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or soul from that which never dies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Applauding Europe save?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But fame you lose; good sense alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your idol, praise, can claim;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When wild wit murders happiness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It puts to death our fame!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor boast your genius, talents bright;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">E'en dunces will despise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If in your western beams is miss'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A genius for the skies;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your taste too fails; what most excels</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">True taste must relish most!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what, to rival palms above,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can proudest laurels boast?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sound heads salvation's helmet seek,<a id="noteref_56" name="noteref_56" href="#note_56"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">56</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Resplendent are its rays,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page274">[pg 274]</span><a name="Pg274" id="Pg274" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let that suffice; it needs no plume,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of sublunary praise.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May this enable couch'd Voltaire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To see that—"All is right,"<a id="noteref_57" name="noteref_57" href="#note_57"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">57</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His eye, by flash of wit struck blind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Restoring to its sight;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If so, all's well: who much have err'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That much have been forgiven;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I speak with joy, with joy he'll hear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Voltaires are, now, in heaven."</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, such philanthropy divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So boundless in degree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its marvellous of love extends</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">(Stoops most profound!) to me:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let others cruel stars arraign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or dwell on their distress;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But let my page, for mercies pour'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A grateful heart express:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Walking, the present God was seen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of old, in Eden fair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The God as present, by plain steps</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of providential care,</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I behold passing through my life;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His awful voice I hear;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page275">[pg 275]</span><a name="Pg275" id="Pg275" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, conscious of my nakedness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Would hide myself for fear:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But where the trees, or where the clouds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can cover from his sight?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Naked the centre to that eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To which the sun is night.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As yonder glittering lamps on high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Through night illumin'd roll;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My thoughts of him, by whom they shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Chase darkness from my soul;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My soul, which reads his hand as clear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In my minute affairs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As in his ample manuscript</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of sun, and moon, and stars;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And knows him not more bent aright</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To wield that vast machine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than to correct one erring thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In my small world within;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A world, that shall survive the fall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of all his wonders here;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Survive, when suns ten thousand drop,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And leave a darken'd sphere.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yon matter gross, how bright it shines!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For time how great his care!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page276">[pg 276]</span><a name="Pg276" id="Pg276" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sure spirit and eternity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Far richer glories share;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let those our hearts impress, on those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our contemplation dwell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On those my thoughts how justly thrown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By what I now shall tell:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When backward with attentive mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Life's labyrinth I trace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I find him far myself beyond</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Propitious to my peace:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through all the crooked paths I trod,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My folly he pursued;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My heart astray to quick return</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Importunately woo'd;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Due resignation home to press</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On my capricious will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How many rescues did I meet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beneath the mask of ill!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How many foes in ambush laid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beneath my soul's desire!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The deepest penitents are made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">By what we most admire.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have I not sometimes (real good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So little mortals know!)</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page277">[pg 277]</span><a name="Pg277" id="Pg277" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mounting the summit of my wish,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Profoundly plung'd in woe?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I rarely plann'd, but cause I found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My plan's defeat to bless:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oft I lamented an event;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It turn'd to my success.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By sharpen'd appetite to give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To good intense delight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through dark and deep perplexities</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He led me to the right.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And is not this the gloomy path,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which you are treading now?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The path most gloomy leads to light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When our proud passions bow:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When labouring under fancied ill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My spirits to sustain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He kindly cur'd with sovereign draughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of unimagin'd pain.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pain'd sense from fancied tyranny</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Alone can set us free;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A thousand miseries we feel,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Till sunk in misery.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cloy'd with a glut of all we wish,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our wish we relish less;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page278">[pg 278]</span><a name="Pg278" id="Pg278" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Success, a sort of suicide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is ruin'd by success:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sometimes he led me near to death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And, pointing to the grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bid terror whisper kind advice;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And taught the tomb to save:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To raise my thoughts beyond where worlds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As spangles o'er us shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One day he gave, and bid the next</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My soul's delight resign.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We to ourselves, but through the means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of mirrors, are unknown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In this my fate can you descry</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No features of your own?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And if you can, let that excuse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">These self-recording lines;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A record, modesty forbids,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or to small bound confines:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In grief why deep ingulf'd? You see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">You suffer nothing rare;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Uncommon grief for common fate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That wisdom cannot bear.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When streams flow backward to their source,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And humbled flames descend,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page279">[pg 279]</span><a name="Pg279" id="Pg279" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And mountains wing'd shall fly aloft,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then human sorrows end;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But human prudence too must cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When sorrows domineer,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When fortitude has lost its fire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And freezes into fear:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pang most poignant of my life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now heightens my delight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I see a fair creation rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From chaos, and old night:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From what seem'd horror, and despair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The richest harvest rose;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gave me in the nod divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An absolute repose.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all the plunders of mankind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More gross, or frequent, none,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than in their grief and joy misplac'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Eternally are shown.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But whither points all this parade?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It says, that near you lies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A book, perhaps yet unperus'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which you should greatly prize:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of self-perusal, science rare!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Few know the mighty gain;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page280">[pg 280]</span><a name="Pg280" id="Pg280" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Learn'd prelates, self-unread, may read</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their Bibles o'er in vain:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Self-knowledge, which from heaven itself</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">(So sages tell us) came,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What is it, but a daughter fair</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of my maternal theme?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unletter'd and untravel'd men</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An oracle might find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Would they consult their own contents,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The Delphos of the mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enter your bosom; there you'll meet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A revelation new,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A revelation personal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which none can read but you.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There will you clearly read reveal'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In your enlighten'd thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By mercies manifold, through life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To fresh remembrance brought,</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A mighty Being! and in him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A complicated friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A father, brother, spouse; no dread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of death, divorce, or end:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who such a matchless friend embrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And lodge him in their heart,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page281">[pg 281]</span><a name="Pg281" id="Pg281" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Full well, from agonies exempt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With other friends may part:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As when o'erloaded branches bear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Large clusters big with wine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We scarce regret one falling leaf</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From the luxuriant vine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My short advice to you may sound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Obscure or somewhat odd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though 'tis the best that man can give,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"E'en be content with God."</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through love he gave you the deceas'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Through greater took him hence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This reason fully could evince,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though murmur'd at by sense.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This friend, far past the kindest kind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is past the greatest great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His greatness let me touch in points</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Not foreign to your state;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His eye, this instant, reads your heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A truth less obvious hear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This instant its most secret thoughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are sounding in his ear:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dispute you this? O! stand in awe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And cease your sorrow; know,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page282">[pg 282]</span><a name="Pg282" id="Pg282" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That tears now trickling down, he saw</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ten thousand years ago;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And twice ten thousand hence, if you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your temper reconcile</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To reason's bound, will he behold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your prudence with a smile;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A smile, which through eternity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Diffuses so bright rays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The dimmest deifies e'en guilt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If guilt, at last, obeys:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your guilt (for guilt it is to mourn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When such a sovereign reigns),</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your guilt diminish; peace pursue;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How glorious peace in pains!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, then, your sorrows cease; if not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Think how unhappy they,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who guilt increase by streaming tears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which guilt should wash away;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of tears that gush profuse restrain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whence burst those dismal sighs?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They from the throbbing breast of one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">(Strange truth!) most happy rise;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not angels (hear it, and exult!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Enjoy a larger share</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page283">[pg 283]</span><a name="Pg283" id="Pg283" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than is indulg'd to you, and yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of God's impartial care;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Anxious for each, as if on each</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His care for all was thrown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For all his care as absolute,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As all had been but one.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And is he then so near! so kind!—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How little then, and great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That riddle, man! O! let me gaze</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At wonders in his fate;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His fate, who yesterday did crawl</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A worm from darkness deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall, with brother worms, beneath</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A turf, to-morrow sleep;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How mean!—And yet, if well obey'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His mighty Master's call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The whole creation for mean man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is deem'd a boon too small:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Too small the whole creation deem'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For emmets in the dust!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Account amazing! yet most true;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My song is bold, yet just:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man born for infinite, in whom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor period can destroy</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page284">[pg 284]</span><a name="Pg284" id="Pg284" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The power, in exquisite extremes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To suffer, or enjoy;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give him earth's empire (if no more)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He's beggar'd, and undone!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Imprison'd in unbounded space!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Benighted by the sun!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For what the sun's meridian blaze</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To the most feeble ray</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which glimmers from the distant dawn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of uncreated day?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis not the poet's rapture feign'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Swells here the vain to please;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The mind most sober kindles most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At truths sublime as these;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They warm e'en me.—I dare not say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Divine ambition strove</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not to bless only, but confound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nay, fright us with its love;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet so frightful what, or kind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As that the rending rock,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The darken'd sun, and rising dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So formidable spoke?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And are we darker than that sun?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than rocks more hard, and blind?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page285">[pg 285]</span><a name="Pg285" id="Pg285" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We are;—if not to such a God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In agonies resigned.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yes, e'en in agonies forbear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To doubt almighty love;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whate'er endears eternity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is mercy from above;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What most imbitters time, that most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Eternity endears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thus, by plunging in distress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Exalts us to the spheres;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Joy's fountain head! where bliss o'er bliss,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O'er wonders wonders rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And an Omnipotence prepares</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its banquet for the wise:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ambrosial banquet! rich in wines</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nectareous to the soul!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What transports sparkle from the stream,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As angels fill the bowl!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fountain profuse of every bliss!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Good-will immense prevails;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Man's line can't fathom its profound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An angel's plummet fails.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy love and might, by what they know,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who judge, nor dream of more;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page286">[pg 286]</span><a name="Pg286" id="Pg286" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They ask a drop, how deep the sea!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">One sand, how wide the shore!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of thy exuberant good-will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Offended Deity!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The thousandth part who comprehends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A deity is he.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How yonder ample azure field</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With radiant worlds is sown!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How tubes astonish us with those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More deep in ether thrown!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And those beyond of brighter worlds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Why not a million more?—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In lieu of answer, let us all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Fall prostrate, and adore.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since thou art infinite in power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor thy indulgence less;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since man, quite impotent and blind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Oft drops into distress;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say, what is resignation? 'T is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Man's weakness understood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wisdom grasping, with a hand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Far stronger, every good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let rash repiners stand appall'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In thee who dare not trust;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page287">[pg 287]</span><a name="Pg287" id="Pg287" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose abject souls, like demons dark,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are murmuring in the dust;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For man to murmur, or repine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At what by thee is done,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No less absurd, than to complain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of darkness in the sun.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who would not, with a heart at ease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Bright eye, unclouded brow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wisdom and goodness at the helm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The roughest ocean plough?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What, though I'm swallow'd in the deep?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though mountains o'er me roar?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Jehovah reigns! as Jonah safe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I'm landed, and adore:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy will is welcome, let it wear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its most tremendous form;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Roar, waves; rage, winds! I know that thou</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Canst save me by a storm.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the immortal spirits born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To thee, their fountain, flow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If wise; as curl'd around to theirs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Meandering streams below:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not less compell'd by reason's call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To thee our souls aspire,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page288">[pg 288]</span><a name="Pg288" id="Pg288" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than to thy skies, by nature's law,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">High mounts material fire;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To thee aspiring they exult,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I feel my spirits rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I feel myself thy son, and pant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For patrimonial skies;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since ardent thirst of future good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And generous sense of past,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To thee man's prudence strongly ties,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And binds affection fast;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since great thy love, and great our want,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And men the wisest blind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bliss our aim; pronounce us all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Distracted, or resigned;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Resign'd through duty, interest, shame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Deep shame! dare I complain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When (wondrous truth!) in heaven itself</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Joy ow'd its birth to pain?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And pain for me! for me was drain'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Gall's overflowing bowl;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall one drop to murmur bold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Provoke my guilty soul?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If pardon'd this, what cause, what crime</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can indignation raise?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page289">[pg 289]</span><a name="Pg289" id="Pg289" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sun was lighted up to shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And man was born to praise;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when to praise the man shall cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or sun to strike the view;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A cloud dishonors both; but man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The blacker of the two:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For oh! ingratitude how black!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With most profound amaze</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At love, which man belov'd o'erlooks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Astonish'd angels gaze.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Praise cheers, and warms, like generous wine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Praise, more divine than prayer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Prayer points our ready path to heaven;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Praise is already there.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let plausive resignation rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And banish all complaint;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All virtues thronging into one,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It finishes the saint;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Makes the man bless'd, as man can be;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Life's labours renders light;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Darts beams through fate's incumbent gloom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And lights our sun by night;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'T is nature's brightest ornament,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The richest gift of grace,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page290">[pg 290]</span><a name="Pg290" id="Pg290" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rival of angels, and supreme</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Proprietor of peace;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, peace beyond, no small degree</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of rapture 't will impart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Know, madam! when your heart's in heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"All heaven is in your heart."</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But who to heaven their hearts can raise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Denied divine support,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All virtue dies; support divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The wise with ardour court:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When prayer partakes the seraph's fire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'T is mounted on his wing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bursts thro' heaven's crystal gates, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sure audience of its king:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The labouring soul from sore distress</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That bless'd expedient frees;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I see you far advanc'd in peace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I see you on your knees:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How on that posture has the beam</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Divine for ever shone!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An humble heart, God's other seat!<a id="noteref_58" name="noteref_58" href="#note_58"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">58</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The rival of his throne:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And stoops Omnipotence so low!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And condescends to dwell,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page291">[pg 291]</span><a name="Pg291" id="Pg291" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Eternity's inhabitant,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Well pleas'd, in such a cell?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such honour how shall we repay?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How treat our guest divine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sacrifice supreme be slain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let self-will die: resign.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus far, at large, on our disease;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now let the cause be shown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whence rises, and will ever rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The dismal human groan:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What our sole fountain of distress?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Strong passion for this scene;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That trifles make important, things</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of mighty moment mean:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When earth's dark maxims poison shed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On our polluted souls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our hearts and interests fly as far</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Asunder, as the poles.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like princes in a cottage nurs'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Unknown their royal race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With abject aims, and sordid joys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our grandeur we disgrace;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! for an Archimedes new,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of moral powers possess'd,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page292">[pg 292]</span><a name="Pg292" id="Pg292" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world to move, and quite expel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That traitor from the breast.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No small advantage may be reap'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From thought whence we descend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From weighing well, and prizing weigh'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our origin, and end:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From far above the glorious sun</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To this dim scene we came:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And may, if wise, for ever bask</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In great Jehovah's beam:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let that bright beam on reason rous'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In awful lustre rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth's giant ills are dwarf'd at once,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And all disquiet dies.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Earth's glories too their splendour lose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Those phantoms charm no more;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Empire's a feather for a fool,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And Indian mines are poor:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then levell'd quite, whilst yet alive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The monarch and his slave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not wait enlighten'd minds to learn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That lesson from the grave:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A George the Third would then be low</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As Lewis in renown,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page293">[pg 293]</span><a name="Pg293" id="Pg293" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could he not boast of glory more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than sparkles from a crown.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When human glory rises high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As human glory can;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When, though the king is truly great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Still greater is the man;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man is dead, where virtue fails;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And though the monarch proud</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In grandeur shines, his gorgeous robe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is but a gaudy shroud.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wisdom! where art thou? None on earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though grasping wealth, fame, power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what, O death! through thy approach,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is wiser every hour;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Approach how swift, how unconfin'd!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Worms feast on viands rare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those little epicures have kings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To grace their bill of fare:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From kings what resignation due</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To that almighty will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which thrones bestows, and, when they fail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can throne them higher still!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who truly great? The good and brave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The masters of a mind</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page294">[pg 294]</span><a name="Pg294" id="Pg294" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The will divine to do resolv'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To suffer it resign'd.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Madam! if that may give it weight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The trifle you receive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is dated from a solemn scene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The border of the grave;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where strongly strikes the trembling soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Eternity's dread power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As bursting on it through the thin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Partition of an hour;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hear this, Voltaire! but this, from me,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Runs hazard of your frown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">However, spare it; ere you die,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Such thoughts will be your own.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In mercy to yourself forbear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My notions to chastise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lest unawares the gay Voltaire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Should blame Voltaire the wise:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fame's trumpet rattling in your ear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now, makes us disagree;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When a far louder trumpet sounds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Voltaire will close with me:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How shocking is that modesty,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which keeps some honest men</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page295">[pg 295]</span><a name="Pg295" id="Pg295" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From urging what their hearts suggest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When brav'd by folly's pen.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Assaulting truths, of which in all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is sown the sacred seed!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our constitution's orthodox,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And closes with our creed:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What then are they, whose proud conceits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Superior wisdom boast?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wretches, who fight their own belief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And labour to be lost!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though vice by no superior joys</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Her heroes keeps in pay;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through pure disinterested love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of ruin they obey!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Strict their devotion to the wrong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though tempted by no prize;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hard their commandments, and their creed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A magazine of lies</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From fancy's forge: gay fancy smiles</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At reason plain, and cool;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fancy, whose curious trade it is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To make the finest fool.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Voltaire! long life's the greatest curse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That mortals can receive,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page296">[pg 296]</span><a name="Pg296" id="Pg296" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When they imagine the chief end</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of living is to live;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Quite thoughtless of their day of death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That birthday of their sorrow!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Knowing, it may be distant far,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor crush them till—to-morrow.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These are cold, northern thoughts, conceiv'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Beneath an humble cot;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not mine, your genius, or your state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No castle is my lot:<a id="noteref_59" name="noteref_59" href="#note_59"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">59</span></span></a></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But soon, quite level shall we lie;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And, what pride most bemoans,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our parts, in rank so distant now,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As level as our bones;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hear you that sound? Alarming sound!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Prepare to meet your fate!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One, who writes finis to our works,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is knocking at the gate;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Far other works will soon be weigh'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Far other judges sit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Far other crowns be lost or won,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than fire ambitious wit:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their wit far brightest will be prov'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who sunk it in good sense;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page297">[pg 297]</span><a name="Pg297" id="Pg297" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And veneration most profound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of dread omnipotence.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis that alone unlocks the gate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of blest eternity;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! mayst thou never, never lose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That more than golden key!<a id="noteref_60" name="noteref_60" href="#note_60"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">60</span></span></a></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whate'er may seem too rough excuse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your good I have at heart:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since from my soul I wish you well;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As yet we must not part:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall you, and I, in love with life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Life's future schemes contrive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world in wonder not unjust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">That we are still alive?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What have we left? How mean in man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A shadow's shade to crave!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When life, so vain! is vainer still,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis time to take your leave:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Happier, than happiest life, is death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who, falling in the field</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of conflict with his rebel will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Writes vici, on his shield;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So falling man, immortal heir</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of an eternal prize;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page298">[pg 298]</span><a name="Pg298" id="Pg298" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Undaunted at the gloomy grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Descends into the skies.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! how disorder'd our machine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When contradictions mix!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When nature strikes no less than twelve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And folly points at six!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To mend the moments of your heart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How great is my delight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gently to wind your morals up,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And set your hand aright!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That hand, which spread your wisdom wide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To poison distant lands:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Repent, recant; the tainted age</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your antidote demands;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To Satan dreadfully resign'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whole herds rush down the steep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of folly, by lewd wits possess'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And perish in the deep.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men's praise your vanity pursues;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis well, pursue it still;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But let it be of men deceas'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And you'll resign the will;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And how superior they to those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At whose applause you aim;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How very far superior they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In number, and in name!</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page299">[pg 299]</span><a name="Pg299" id="Pg299" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Postscript.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus have I written, when to write</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No mortal should presume;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or only write, what none can blame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hic jacet—for his tomb:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The public frowns, and censures loud</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My puerile employ;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though just the censure, if you smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The scandal I enjoy;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But sing no more—no more I sing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or reassume the lyre,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unless vouchsaf'd an humble part</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where Raphael leads the choir:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What myriads swell the concert loud!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Their golden harps resound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">High as the footstool of the throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And deep as hell profound:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hell (horrid contrast!) chord and song</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of raptur'd angels drowns</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In self-will's peal of blasphemies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And hideous burst of groans;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page300">[pg 300]</span><a name="Pg300" id="Pg300" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But drowns them not to me; I hear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Harmonious thunders roll</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(In language low of men to speak)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From echoing pole to pole!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whilst this grand chorus shakes the skies—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Above, beneath the sun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through boundless age, by men, by gods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Jehovah's will be done!"</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis done in heaven; whence headlong hurl'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Self-will with Satan fell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And must from earth be banish'd too,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or earth's another hell;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Madam! self-will inflicts your pains:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Self-will's the deadly foe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which deepens all the dismal shades,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And points the shafts of woe:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your debt to nature fully paid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Now virtue claims her due:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But virtue's cause I need not plead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis safe; I write to you:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You know, that virtue's basis lies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In ever judging right;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wiping error's clouds away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which dim the mental sight:</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page301">[pg 301]</span><a name="Pg301" id="Pg301" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why mourn the dead? you wrong the grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From storm that safe resort;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We still are tossing out at sea,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our admiral in port.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Was death denied, this world, a scene</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How dismal and forlorn!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To death we owe, that 'tis to man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A blessing to be born;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When every other blessing fails,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Or sapp'd by slow decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, storm'd by sudden blasts of fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is swiftly whirl'd away;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How happy! that no storm, or time,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of death can rob the just!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">None pluck from their unaching heads</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Soft pillows in the dust!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Well pleas'd to bear heaven's darkest frown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Your utmost power employ;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis noble chemistry to turn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Necessity to joy.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whate'er the colour of my fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">My fate shall be my choice:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Determin'd am I, whilst I breathe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To praise and to rejoice;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page302">[pg 302]</span><a name="Pg302" id="Pg302" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What ample cause! triumphant hope!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O rich eternity!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I start not at a world in flames,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Charm'd with one glimpse of thee:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thou! its great inhabitant!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How glorious dost thou shine!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And dart through sorrow, danger, death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A beam of joy divine!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The void of joy (with some concern</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The truth severe I tell)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is an impenitent in guilt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A fool or infidel!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Weigh this, ye pupils of Voltaire!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From joyless murmur free;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or, let us know, which character</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Shall crown you of the three.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Resign, resign: this lesson none</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Too deeply can instill;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A crown has been resign'd by more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than have resign'd the will;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though will resign'd the meanest makes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Superior in renown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And richer in celestial eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Than he who wears a crown;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page303">[pg 303]</span><a name="Pg303" id="Pg303" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence, in the bosom cold of age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">It kindled a strange aim</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To shine in song; and bid me boast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The grandeur of my theme:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But oh! how far presumption falls</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Its lofty theme below!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our thoughts in life's December freeze,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And numbers cease to flow.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">First! greatest! best! grant what I wrote</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For others, ne'er may rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To brand the writer! thou alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Canst make our wisdom wise;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And how unwise! how deep in guilt!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How infamous the fault!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"A teacher thron'd in pomp of words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Indeed, beneath the taught!"</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Means most infallible to make</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The world an infidel;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, with instructions most divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To pave a path to hell;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! for a clean and ardent heart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O! for a soul on fire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy praise, begun on earth, to sound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Where angels string the lyre;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page304">[pg 304]</span><a name="Pg304" id="Pg304" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How cold is man! to him how hard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">(Hard, what most easy seems)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"To set a just esteem on that,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Which yet he—most esteems!"</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What shall we say, when boundless bliss</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Is offer'd to mankind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to that offer when a race</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Of rationals is blind?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of human nature ne'er too high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Are our ideas wrought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of human merit ne'er too low</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Depress'd the daring thought.</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc57" id="toc57"></a><a name="pdf58" id="pdf58"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page305">[pg 305]</span><a name="Pg305" id="Pg305" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">On the Late Queen's Death, +And His Majesty's Accession to the Throne</span></h1> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Inscribed to Joseph Addison, Esq. Secretary to Their +Excellencies the Lords Justices.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Gaudia curis.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Hor.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sir, I have long, and with impatience, sought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To ease the fulness of my grateful thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My fame at once, and duty to pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And please the public, by respect to you.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though you, long since beyond Britannia known,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have spread your country's glory with your own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To me you never did more lovely shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than when so late the kindled wrath divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Quench'd our ambition, in great Anna's fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And darken'd all the pomp of human state.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though you are rich in fame, and fame decay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though rais'd in life, and greatness fade away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your lustre brightens: virtue cuts the gloom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With purer rays, and sparkles near a tomb.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Know, sir, the great esteem and honour due,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I chose that moment to profess to you,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When sadness reign'd, when fortune, so severe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Had warm'd our bosoms to be most sincere.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when no motives could have force to raise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A serious value, and provoke my praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But such as rise above, and far transcend,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page306">[pg 306]</span><a name="Pg306" id="Pg306" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whatever glories with this world shall end,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then shining forth, when deepest shades shall blot</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sun's bright orb, and Cato be forgot.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I sing—but ah! my theme I need not tell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See every eye with conscious sorrow swell:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who now to verse would raise his humble voice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can only show his duty, not his choice.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How great the weight of grief our hearts sustain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We languish, and to speak is to complain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let us look back, (for who too oft can view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That most illustrious scene, for ever new!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See all the seasons shine on Anna's throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And pay a constant tribute, not their own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her summer's heats nor fruits alone bestow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They reap the harvest, and subdue the foe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when black storms confess the distant sun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her winters wear the wreaths her summers won.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Revolving pleasures in their turns appear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And triumphs are the product of the year.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To crown the whole, great joys in greater cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And glorious victory is lost in peace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Whence this profusion on our favour'd isle?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Did partial fortune on our virtue smile?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or did the sceptre, in great Anna's hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stretch forth this rich indulgence o'er our land?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ungrateful Britain! quit thy groundless claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy queen and thy good fortune are the same.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hear, with alarms our trumpets fill the sky;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis Anna reigns! the Gallic squadrons fly.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We spread our canvass to the southern shore;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page307">[pg 307]</span><a name="Pg307" id="Pg307" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis Anna reigns! the south resigns her store.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her virtue smooths the tumult of the main,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And swells the field with mountains of the slain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Argyll and Churchill but the glory share,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While millions lie subdu'd by Anna's prayer.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How great her zeal! how fervent her desire!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How did her soul in holy warmth expire!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Constant devotion did her time divide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not set returns of pleasure or of pride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not want of rest, or the sun's parting ray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But finish'd duty, limited the day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How sweet succeeding sleep! what lovely themes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Smil'd in her thoughts, and soften'd all her dreams!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her royal couch descending angels spread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And join'd their wings a shelter o'er her head.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though Europe's wealth and glory claim'd a part,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Religion's cause reign'd mistress of her heart:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She saw, and griev'd to see, the mean estate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of those who round the hallow'd altar wait;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She shed her bounty, piously profuse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thought it more her own in sacred use.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus on his furrow see the tiller stand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fill with genial seed his lavish hand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He trusts the kindness of the fruitful plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And providently scatters all his grain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What strikes my sight? does proud Augusta rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">New to behold, and awfully surprise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her lofty brow more numerous turrets crown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sacred domes on palaces look down:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A noble pride of piety is shown,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page308">[pg 308]</span><a name="Pg308" id="Pg308" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And temples cast a lustre on the throne.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How would this work another's glory raise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But Anna's greatness robs her of the praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Drown'd in a brighter blaze it disappears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who dried the widow's and the orphan's tears?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who stoop'd from high to succour the distrest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And reconcile the wounded heart to rest?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Great in her goodness, well could we perceive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whoever sought, it was a queen that gave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Misfortune lost her name, her guiltless frown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But made another debtor to the crown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And each unfriendly stroke from fate we bore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Became our title to the regal store.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus injur'd trees adopt a foreign shoot,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And their wounds blossom with a fairer fruit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye numbers, who on your misfortunes thriv'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When first the dreadful blast of fame arriv'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say what a shock, what agonies you felt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How did your souls with tender anguish melt!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That grief which living Anna's love suppress'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shook like a tempest every grateful breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A second fate our sinking fortunes tried!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A second time our tender parents died!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Heroes returning from the field we crown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And deify the haughty victor's frown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His splendid wealth too rashly we admire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Catch the disease, and burn with equal fire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wisely to spend, is the great art of gain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And one reliev'd transcends a million slain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When time shall ask, where once Ramillia lay,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page309">[pg 309]</span><a name="Pg309" id="Pg309" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or Danube flow'd that swept whole troops away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One drop of water, that refresh'd the dry,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall rise a fountain of eternal joy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But ah! to that unknown and distant date</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is virtue's great reward push'd off by fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here random shafts in every breast are found,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Virtue and merit but provoke the wound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">August in native worth and regal state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Anna sate arbitress of Europe's fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To distant realms did every accent fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nations watch'd each motion of her eye.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Silent, nor longer awful to be seen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How small a spot contains the mighty queen!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No throng of suppliant princes mark the place,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where Britain's greatness is compos'd in peace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The broken earth is scarce discern'd to rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And a stone tells us where the monarch lies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus end maturest honours of the crown!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This is the last conclusion of renown!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So when with idle skill the wanton boy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Breathes through his tube; he sees, with eager joy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The trembling bubble, in its rising small;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And by degrees expands the glittering ball.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But when, to full perfection blown, it flies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">High in the air, and shines in various dyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The little monarch, with a falling tear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sees his world burst at once, and disappear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis not in sorrow to reverse our doom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No groans unlock th' inexorable tomb!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why then this fond indulgence of our woe!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page310">[pg 310]</span><a name="Pg310" id="Pg310" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What fruit can rise, or what advantage flow!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yes, this advantage; from our deep distress</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We learn how much in George the gods can bless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Had a less glorious princess left the throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But half the hero had at first been shown:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An Anna falling all the king employs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To vindicate from guilt our rising joys:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our joys arise and innocently shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Auspicious monarch! what a praise is thine!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Welcome, great stranger, to Britannia's throne!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor let thy country think thee all her own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of thy delay how oft did we complain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our hopes reach'd out, and met thee on the main.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With prayer we smooth the billows for thy fleet;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With ardent wishes fill thy swelling sheet;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when thy foot took place on Albion's shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We bending bless'd the gods, and ask'd no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What hand but thine should conquer and compose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Join those whom interest joins, and chase our foes?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Repel the daring youth's presumptuous aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And by his rival's greatness give him fame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now in some foreign court he may sit down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And quit without a blush the British crown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Secure his honour, though he lose his store,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And take a lucky moment to be poor.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor think, great sir, now first, at this late hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Britain's favour, you exert your power;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To us, far back in time, I joy to trace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The numerous tokens of your princely grace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether you chose to thunder on the Rhine,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page311">[pg 311]</span><a name="Pg311" id="Pg311" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Inspire grave councils, or in courts to shine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In the more scenes your genius was display'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The greater debt was on Britannia laid:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They all conspir'd this mighty man to raise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And your new subjects proudly share the praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">All share; but may not we have leave to boast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That we contemplate, and enjoy it most?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This ancient nurse of arts, indulged by fate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On gentle Isis' bank, a calm retreat;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For many roiling ages justly fam'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has through the world her loyalty proclaim'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And often pour'd (too well the truth is known!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her blood and treasure to support the throne!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For England's church her latest accents strain'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And freedom with his dying hand retain'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No wonder then her various ranks agree</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In all the fervencies of zeal for thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What though thy birth a distant kingdom boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And seas divide thee from the British coast?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The crown's impatient to enclose thy head:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why stay thy feet? the cloth of gold is spread.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our strict obedience through the world shall tell</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That king's a Briton, who can govern well!</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc59" id="toc59"></a><a name="pdf60" id="pdf60"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page312">[pg 312]</span><a name="Pg312" id="Pg312" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Instalment.</span></h1> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Quæsitam meritis.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Hor.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With invocations some their breasts inflame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I need no muse, a Walpole is my theme.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye mighty dead, ye garter'd sons of praise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our morning stars! our boast in former days!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which hovering o'er, your purple wings display,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lur'd by the pomp of this distinguish'd day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Stoop, and attend: by one, the knee be bound;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One, throw the mantle's crimson folds around;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By that, the sword on his proud thigh be plac'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This, clasp the diamond girdle round his waist;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His breast, with rays, let just Godolphin spread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wise Burleigh plant the plumage on his head;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Edward own, since first he fix'd the race,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">None press'd fair glory with a swifter pace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When fate would call some mighty genius forth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To wake a drooping age to godlike worth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or aid some favourite king's illustrious toil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It bids his blood with generous ardour boil;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His blood, from virtue's celebrated source,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pour'd down the steep of time, a lengthen'd course;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That men prepar'd may just attention pay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Warn'd by the dawn to mark the glorious day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When all the scatter'd merits of his line</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Collected to a point, intensely shine.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page313">[pg 313]</span><a name="Pg313" id="Pg313" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See, Britain, see thy Walpole shine from far,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His azure ribbon, and his radiant star;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A star that, with auspicious beams, shall guide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy vessel safe, through fortune's roughest tide.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If peace still smiles, by this shall commerce steer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A finish'd course, in triumph round the sphere;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, gathering tribute from each distant shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Britain's lap the world's abundance pour.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If war's ordain'd, this star shall dart its beams</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through that black cloud which, rising from the Thames,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With thunder, form'd of Brunswick's wrath, is sent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To claim the seas, and awe the continent.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This shall direct it where the bolt to throw,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A star for us, a comet to the foe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At this the muse shall kindle, and aspire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My breast, O Walpole, glows with grateful fire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The streams of royal bounty, turn'd by thee,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Refresh the dry domains of poesy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My fortune shows, when arts are Walpole's care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What slender worth forbids us to despair:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be this thy partial smile from censure free;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twas meant for merit, though it fell on me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Since Brunswick's smile has authoris'd my muse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Chaste be her conduct, and sublime her views.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">False praises are the whoredoms of the pen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which prostitute fair fame to worthless men:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This profanation of celestial fire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Makes fools despise, what wise men should admire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let those I praise to distant times be known,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page314">[pg 314]</span><a name="Pg314" id="Pg314" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not by their author's merit, but their own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If others think the task is hard, to weed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From verse rank flattery's vivacious seed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rooted deep; one means must set them free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Patron! and patriot! let them sing of thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">While vulgar trees ignobler honours wear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor those retain, when winter chills the year;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The generous orange, favourite of the sun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With vigorous charms can through the seasons run;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Defies the storm with her tenacious green;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And flowers and fruits in rival pomp are seen:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where blossoms fall, still fairer blossoms spring;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And midst their sweets the feather'd poets sing.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On Walpole, thus, may pleas'd Britannia view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At once her ornament and profit too;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fruit of service, and the bloom of fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Matur'd and gilded by the royal beam.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He, when the nipping blasts of envy rise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its guilt can pity, and its rage despise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lets fall no honours, but, securely great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unfaded holds the colour of his fate:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No winter knows, though ruffling factions press;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By wisdom deeply rooted in success;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One glory shed, a brighter is display'd;<a id="noteref_61" name="noteref_61" href="#note_61"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">61</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And the charm'd muses shelter in his shade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O how I long, enkindled by the theme,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In deep eternity to launch thy name!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy name in view, no rights of verse I plead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what chaste truth indites, old time shall read.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page315">[pg 315]</span><a name="Pg315" id="Pg315" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Behold! a man of ancient faith and blood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which, soon, beat high for arts, and public good;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose glory great, but natural appears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The genuine growth of services and years;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No sudden exhalation drawn on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fondly gilt by partial majesty:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One bearing greatest toils with greatest ease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One born to serve us, and yet born to please:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whom, while our rights in equal scales he lays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The prince may trust, and yet the people praise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His genius ardent, yet his judgment clear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His tongue is flowing, and his heart sincere,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His counsel guides, his temper cheers our isle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, smiling, gives three kingdoms cause to smile."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Joy then to Britain, blest with such a son,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To Walpole joy, by whom the prize is won;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who nobly conscious meets the smiles of fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True greatness lies in daring to be great.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let dastard souls, or affectation, run</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To shades, nor wear bright honours fairly won;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such men prefer, misled by false applause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pride of modesty to virtue's cause.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Honours, which make the face of virtue fair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis great to merit, and 'tis wise to wear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis holding up the prize to public view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Confirms grown virtue, and inflames the new;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heightens the lustre of our age and clime,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sheds rich seeds of worth for future time.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Proud chiefs alone, in fields of slaughter fam'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of old, this azure bloom of glory claim'd,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page316">[pg 316]</span><a name="Pg316" id="Pg316" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As when stern Ajax pour'd a purple flood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The violet rose, fair daughter of his blood.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now rival wisdom dares the wreath divide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And both Minervas rise in equal pride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Proclaiming loud, a monarch fills the throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who shines illustrious not in wars alone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let fame look lovely in Britannia's eyes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They coldly court desert, who fame despise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For what's ambition, but fair virtue's sail?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what applause, but her propitious gale?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When swell'd with that, she fleets before the wind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To glorious aims, as to the port design'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When chain'd, without it, to the labouring oar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She toils! she pants! nor gains the flying shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From her sublime pursuits, or turn'd aside</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By blasts of envy, or by fortune's tide:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For one that has succeeded ten are lost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of equal talents, ere they make the coast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then let renown to worth divine incite,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With all her beams, but throw those beams aright.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then merit droops, and genius downward tends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When godlike glory, like our land, descends.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Custom the garter long confin'd to few,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gave to birth, exalted virtue's due:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Walpole has thrown the proud enclosure down;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And high desert embraces fair renown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though rival'd, let the peerage smiling see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Smiling, in justice to their own degree)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This proud reward by majesty bestow'd</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page317">[pg 317]</span><a name="Pg317" id="Pg317" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On worth like that whence first the peerage flow'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From frowns of fate Britannia's bliss'd to guard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let subjects merit, and let kings reward.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gods are most gods by giving to excel,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And kings most like them, by rewarding well.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Though strong the twanging nerve, and drawn aright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Short is the winged arrow's upward flight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But if an eagle it transfix on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lodg'd in the wound, it soars into the sky.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus while I sing thee with unequal lays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wound perhaps that worth I mean to praise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet I transcend myself, I rise in fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not lifted by my genius, but my theme.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No more: for in this dread suspense of fate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now kingdoms fluctuate, and in dark debate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Weigh peace and war, now Europe's eyes are bent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On mighty Brunswick, for the great event,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Brunswick of kings the terror or defence!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who dares detain thee at a world's expense?</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc61" id="toc61"></a><a name="pdf62" id="pdf62"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page318">[pg 318]</span><a name="Pg318" id="Pg318" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">And Epistle to the Right Hon. George Lord Lansdowne.</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">1712.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 21.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Parnassia laurus</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Parva sub ingenti matris se subjicit umbra.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When Rome, my lord, in her full glory shone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And great Augustus rul'd the globe alone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While suppliant kings in all their pomp and state</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Swarm'd in his courts, and throng'd his palace gate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Horace did oft the mighty man detain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sooth'd his breast with no ignoble strain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now soar'd aloft, now struck an humbler string;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And taught the Roman genius how to sing.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Pardon, if I his freedom dare pursue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who know no want of Cæsar, finding you;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The muse's friend is pleas'd the muse should press</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through circling crowds, and labor for access,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That partial to his darling he may prove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shining throngs for her reproach remove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To all the world industrious to proclaim</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His love of arts, and boast the glorious flame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Long has the western world reclin'd her head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pour'd forth her sorrow, and bewail'd her dead;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fell discord through her borders fiercely rang'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shook her nations, and her monarchs chang'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By land and sea, its utmost rage employ'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor heaven repair'd so fast as men destroy'd.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page319">[pg 319]</span><a name="Pg319" id="Pg319" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In vain kind summers plentuous fields bestow'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In vain the vintage liberally flow'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alarms from loaden boards all pleasures chas'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And robb'd the rich Burgundian grape of taste;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The smiles of Nature could no blessing bring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fruitful autumn, or the flowery spring;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Time was distinguish'd by the sword and spear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not by the various aspects of the year;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The trumpet's sound proclaim'd a milder sky,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bloodshed told us when the sun was nigh.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But now (so soon is Britain's blessing seen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When such as you are near her glorious queen!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now peace, though long repuls'd, arrives at last,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And bids us smile on all our labours past;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bids every nation cease her wonted moan,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And every monarch call his crown his own:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To valour gentler virtues now succeed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No longer is the great man born to bleed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Renown'd in councils, brave Argyle shall tell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wisdom and prowess in one breast may dwell:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through milder tracts he soars to deathless fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And without trembling we resound his name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No more the rising harvest whets the sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No longer waves uncertain of its lord;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who cast the seed, the golden sheaf shall claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor chance of battle change the master's name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each stream unstain'd with blood more smoothly flows;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The brighter sun a fuller day bestows;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page320">[pg 320]</span><a name="Pg320" id="Pg320" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All nature seems to wear a cheerful face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thank great Anna for returning peace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The patient thus, when on his bed of pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No longer he invokes the gods in vain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But rises to new life; in every field</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He finds Elysium, rivers nectar yield;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing so cheap and vulgar but can please,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And borrow beauties from his late disease.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor is it peace alone, but such a peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As more than bids the rage of battle cease.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Death may determine war, and rest succeed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Cause nought survives on which our rage may feed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In faithful friends we lose our glorious foes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And strifes of love exalt our sweet repose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See graceful Bolingbroke, your friend, advance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor miss his Lansdowne in the court of France;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So well receiv'd, so welcome, so at home,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Blest change of fate,) in Bourbon's stately dome;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The monarch pleas'd, descending from his throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will not that Anna call him all her own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He claims a part, and looking round to find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Something might speak the fulness of his mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A diamond shines, which oft had touch'd him near,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Renew'd his grief, and robb'd him of a tear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now first with joy beheld, well plac'd on one,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who makes him less regret his darling son;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So dear is Anna's minister, so great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your glorious friend in his own private state.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To make our nations longer two, in vain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Does nature interpose the raging main:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page321">[pg 321]</span><a name="Pg321" id="Pg321" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The Gallic shore to distant Britain grows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For Lewis Thames, the Seine for Anna flows:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From conflicts pass'd each other's worth we find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thence in stricter friendship now are join'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each wound receiv'd, now pleads the cause of love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And former injuries endearments prove.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What Briton but must prize th' illustrious sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That cause of fear to Churchill could afford?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who sworn to Bourbon's sceptre, but must frame</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vast thoughts of him, that could brave Tallard tame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus generous hatred in affection ends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And war, which rais'd the foes, completes the friends.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A thousand happy consequences flow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(The dazzling prospect makes my bosom glow);</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Commerce shall lift her swelling sails, and roll</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her wealthy fleets secure from pole to pole;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The British merchant, who with care and pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For many moons sees only skies and main;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When now in view of his loved native shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The perils of the dreadful ocean o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cause to regret his wealth no more shall find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor curse the mercy of the sea and wind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By hardest fate condemn'd to serve a foe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And give him strength to strike a deeper blow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sweet Philomela providently flies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To distant woods and streams, for such supplies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To feed her young, and make them try the wing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with their tender notes attempt to sing:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Meanwhile, the fowler spreads his secret snare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And renders vain the tuneful mother's care.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page322">[pg 322]</span><a name="Pg322" id="Pg322" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Britannia's bold adventurer of late</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The foaming ocean plow'd with equal fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Goodness is greatness in its utmost height,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And power a curse, if not a friend to right:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To conquer is to make dissension cease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That man may serve the King of kings in peace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Religion now shall all her rays dispense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shine abroad in perfect excellence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Else we may dread some greater curse at hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To scourge a thoughtless and ungrateful land:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now war is weary, and retir'd to rest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The meagre famine, and the spotted pest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deputed in her stead, may blast the day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And sweep the relics of the sword away.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When peaceful Numa fill'd the Roman throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Jove in the fulness of his glory shone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wise Solomon, a stranger to the sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Was born to raise a temple to the Lord.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Anne too shall build, and every sacred pile</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Speak peace eternal to Britannia's isle.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those mighty souls, whom military care</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Diverted from their only great affair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall bend their full united force, to bless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Th' Almighty Author of their late success.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what is all the world subdued to this?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The grave sets bounds to sublunary bliss;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But there are conquests to great Anna known,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above the splendour of an earthly throne;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conquests! whose triumph is too great, within</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The scanty bounds of matter to begin;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page323">[pg 323]</span><a name="Pg323" id="Pg323" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Too glorious to shine forth, till it has run</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beyond this darkness of the stars and sun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shall whole ages past be still, still but begun.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Heroic shades! whom war has swept away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Look down, and smile on this auspicious day:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now boast your deaths; to those your glory tell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who or at Agincourt or Cressy fell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then deep into eternity retire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of greater things than peace or war inquire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fully content, and unconcern'd, to know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What farther passes in the world below.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The bravest of mankind shall now have leave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To die but once, nor piece-meal seek the grave:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On gain or pleasure bent, we shall not meet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sad melancholy numbers in each street</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Owners of bones dispers'd on Flandria's plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or wasting in the bottom of the main);</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To turn us back from joy, in tender fear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lest it an insult of their woes appear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And make us grudge ourselves that wealth, their blood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Perhaps preserv'd, who starve, or beg for food.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Devotion shall run pure, and disengage</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From that strange fate of mixing peace with rage.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On heaven without a sin we now may call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And guiltless to our Maker prostrate fall;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be Christians while we pray, nor in one breath</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ask mercy for ourselves, for others death.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But O! I view with transport arts restor'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which double use to Britain shall afford;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page324">[pg 324]</span><a name="Pg324" id="Pg324" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Secure her glory purchas'd in the field,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet for future peace sweet motives yield:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While we contemplate on the painted wall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pressing Briton, and the flying Gaul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In such bright images, such living grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As leave great Raphael but the second place;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our cheeks shall glow, our heaving bosoms rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And martial ardours sparkle in our eyes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Much we shall triumph in our battles past,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet consent those battles prove our last;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lest, while in arms for brighter fame we strive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We lose the means to keep that fame alive.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In silent groves the birds delight to sing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or near the margin of a secret spring:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now all is calm, sweet music shall improve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor kindle rage, but be the nurse of love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But what's the warbling voice, the trembling string,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or breathing canvass, when the muses sing?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The muse, my lord, your care above the rest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With rising joy dilates my partial breast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The thunder of the battle ceas'd to roar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ere Greece her godlike poets taught to soar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rome's dreadful foe, great Hannibal, was dead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all her warlike neighbours round her bled;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For Janus shut, her Iö Pæans rung,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Before an Ovid or a Virgil sung.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A thousand various forms the muse may wear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(A thousand various forms become the fair;)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But shines in none with more majestic mien,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page325">[pg 325]</span><a name="Pg325" id="Pg325" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than when in state she draws the purple scene;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Calls forth her monarchs, bids her heroes rage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And mourning beauty melt the crowded stage;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Charms back past ages, gives to Britain's use</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The noblest virtues time did e'er produce;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Leaves fam'd historians' boasted art behind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They keep the soul alone, and that's confin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sought out with pains, and but by proxy speaks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The hero's presence deep impression makes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The scenes his soul and body reunite,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Furnish a voice, produce him to the sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Make our contemporary him that stood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">High in renown, perhaps before the flood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Make Nestor to this age advice afford,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Hector for our service draw his sword.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">More glory to an author what can bring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whence nobler service to his country spring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than from those labours, which, in man's despight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Possess him with a passion for the right?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With honest magic make the knave inclin'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To pay devotion to the virtuous mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through all her toils and dangers bid him rove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And with her wants and anguish fall in love?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Who hears the godlike Montezuma groan,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And does not wish the glorious pain his own?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lend but your understanding, and their skill</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can domineer at pleasure o'er your will:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor is the short-liv'd conquest quickly past;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shame, if not choice, will hold the convert fast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How often have I seen the generous bowl</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page326">[pg 326]</span><a name="Pg326" id="Pg326" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With pleasing force unlock a secret soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And steal a truth, which every sober hour</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(The prose of life) had kept within her power!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The grape victorious often has prevail'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When gold and beauty, racks and tortures, fail'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet when the spirit's tumult was allay'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">She mourn'd, perhaps, the sentiment betray'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But mourn'd too late, no longer could deny,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And on her own confession charge the lie.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus they, whom neither the prevailing love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of goodness here, or mercy from above,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or fear of future pains, or human laws</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Could render advocates in virtue's cause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Caught by the scene, have unawares resign'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their wonted disposition of the mind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By slow degrees prevails the pleasing tale,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As circling glasses on our senses steal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till thoroughly by the muses' banquet warm'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The passions tossing, all the soul alarm'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They turn mere zealots flush'd with glorious rage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rise in their seats, and scarce forbear the stage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Assistance to wrong'd innocence to bring,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or turn the poniard on some tyrant king.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How can they cool to villains? how subside</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To dregs of vice, from such a godlike pride?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To spoiling orphans how to day return,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who wept last night to see Monimia mourn?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In this gay school of virtue, whom so fit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To govern, and control the world of wit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As Talbot, Lansdowne's friend, has Britain known?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page327">[pg 327]</span><a name="Pg327" id="Pg327" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Him polish'd Italy has call'd her own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He in the lap of elegance was bred,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And trac'd the muses to their fountain head:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But much we hope, he will enjoy at home</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's nearer ancient than the modern Rome.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor fear I mention of the court of France,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When I the British genius would advance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There too has Shrewsbury improv'd his taste;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet still we dare invite him to our feast:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For Corneille's sake I shall my thoughts suppress</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of Oroonoko, and presume him less:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What though we wrong him? Isabella's woe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Waters those bays that shall for ever grow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Our foes confess, nor we the praise refuse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The drama glories in the British muse.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The French are delicate, and nicely lead</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of close intrigue the labyrinthian thread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our genius more affects the grand, than fine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our strength can make the great plain action shine:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They raise a great curiosity indeed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From his dark maze to see the hero freed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We rouse th' affections, and that hero show</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gasping beneath some formidable blow:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They sigh; we weep: the Gallic doubt and care</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We heighten into terror and despair;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Strike home, the strongest passions boldly touch,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor fear our audience should be pleas'd too much.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What's great in nature we can greatly draw,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor thank for beauties the dramatic law.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fate of Cæsar is a tale too plain</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page328">[pg 328]</span><a name="Pg328" id="Pg328" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fickle Gallic taste to entertain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their art would have perplex'd, and interwove</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The golden arras with gay flowers of love:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We know heaven made him a far greater man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than any Cæsar, in a human plan,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And such we draw him, nor are too refin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To stand affected with what heaven design'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To claim attention, and the heart invade,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shakespeare but wrote the play th' Almighty made.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our neighbour's stage-art too bare-fac'd betrays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis great Corneille at every scene we praise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On nature's surer aid Britannia calls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">None think of Shakespeare till the curtain falls;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then with a sigh returns our audience home,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From Venice, Egypt, Persia, Greece, or Rome.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">France yields not to the glory of our lines,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But manly conduct of our strong designs;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That oft they think more justly we must own,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Not ancient Greece a truer sense has shown:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Greece thought but justly, they think justly too;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We sometimes err by striving more to do.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So well are Racine's meanest persons taught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But change a sentiment, you make a fault;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor dare we charge them with the want of flame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When we boast more, we own ourselves to blame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And yet in Shakespeare something still I find,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That makes me less esteem all human kind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He made one nature, and another found,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Both in his page with master strokes abound:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His witches, fairies, and enchanted isle.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page329">[pg 329]</span><a name="Pg329" id="Pg329" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bid us no longer at our nurses smile;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of lost historians we almost complain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor think it the creation of his brain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who lives, when his Othello's in a trance?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With his great Talbot<a id="noteref_62" name="noteref_62" href="#note_62"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">62</span></span></a> too he conquer'd France.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Long we may hope brave Talbot's blood will run</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In great descendants, Shakespeare has but one;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And him, my lord, permit me not to name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But in kind silence spare his rival's shame:—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet I in vain that author would suppress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What can't be greater, cannot be made less:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each reader will defeat my fruitless aim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And to himself great Agamemnon name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Should Shakespeare rise unbless'd with Talbot's smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">E'en Shakespeare's self would curse this barren isle:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But if that reigning star propitious shine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And kindly mix his gentle rays with thine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">E'en I, by far the meanest of your age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shall not repent my passion for the stage.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus did the will almighty disallow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No human force could pluck the golden bough,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which left the tree with ease at Jove's command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And spar'd the labour of the weakest hand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Auspicious fate! that gives me leave to write</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To you, the muses' glory and delight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who know to read, nor false encomiums raise,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page330">[pg 330]</span><a name="Pg330" id="Pg330" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And mortify an author with your praise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Praise wounds a noble mind, when 'tis not due,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But censure's self will please, my lord, from you;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Faults are our pride and gain, when you descend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To point them out, and teach us how to mend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What though the great man set his coffers wide,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That cannot gratify the poet's pride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whose inspiration, if 'tis truly good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is best rewarded, when best understood.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The muses write for glory, not for gold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis far beneath their nature to be sold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The greatest gain is scorn'd, but as it serves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To speak a sense of what the muse deserves;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The muse which from her Lansdowne fears no wrong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Best judge, as well as subject, of her song.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Should this great theme allure me further still,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And I presume to use your patience ill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world would plead my cause, and none but you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Will take disgust at what I now pursue:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since what is mean my muse can't raise, I'll choose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A theme that's able to exalt my muse.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">For who, not void of thought, can Granville name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without a spark of his immortal flame?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether we seek the patriot, or the friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let Bolingbroke, let Anna recommend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether we choose to love or to admire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You melt the tender, and th'ambitious fire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Such native graces without thought abound,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page331">[pg 331]</span><a name="Pg331" id="Pg331" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And such familiar glories spread around,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As more incline the stander by to raise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His value for himself, than you to praise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus you befriend the most heroic way,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bless all, on none an obligation lay;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So turn'd by nature's hand for all that's well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis scarce a virtue when you most excel.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Tho' sweet your presence, graceful is your mien,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You to be happy want not to be seen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though priz'd in public, you can smile alone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor court an approbation but your own:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In throngs, not conscious of those eyes that gaze</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In wonder fix'd, though resolute to please;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You, were all blind, would still deserve applause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world's your glory's witness, not its cause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That lies beyond the limits of the day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Angels behold it, and their God obey.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">You take delight in others' excellence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A gift, which nature rarely does dispense:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all that breathe 'tis you, perhaps, alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Would be well pleas'd to see yourself outdone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You wish not those, who show your name respect,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So little worth, as might excuse neglect;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor are in pain lest merit you should know;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor shun the well deserver as a foe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A troublesome acquaintance, that will claim</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To be well us'd, or dye your cheek with shame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">You wish your country's good; that told so well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your powers are known, th' event I need not tell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When Nestor spoke, none ask'd if he prevail'd;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page332">[pg 332]</span><a name="Pg332" id="Pg332" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That god of sweet persuasion never fail'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And such great fame had Hector's valour wrought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who meant he conquer'd, only said he fought.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When you, my lord, to sylvan scenes retreat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No crowds around for pleasure, or for state,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You are not cast upon a stranger land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And wander pensive o'er the barren strand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor are you by receiv'd example taught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In toys to shun the discipline of thought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But unconfin'd by bounds of time and place,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You choose companions from all human race;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Converse with those the deluge swept away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or those whose midnight is Britannia's day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Books not so much inform, as give consent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To those ideas your own thoughts present;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your only gain from turning volumes o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is finding cause to like yourself the more:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In Grecian sages you are only taught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With more respect to value your own thought:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Great Tully grew immortal, while he drew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those precepts we behold alive in you:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your life is so adjusted to their schools,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It makes that history they meant for rules.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What joy, what pleasing transport, must arise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Within your breast, and lift you to the skies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When, in each learned page that you unfold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You find some part of your own conduct told!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So pleas'd, and so surpris'd, Æneas stood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And such triumphant raptures fir'd his blood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When far from Trojan shores the hero spied</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page333">[pg 333]</span><a name="Pg333" id="Pg333" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His story shining forth in all its pride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Admir'd himself, and saw his actions stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The praise and wonder of a foreign land.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He knows not half his being, who's confin'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In converse, and reflection on mankind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your soul, which understands her charter well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Disdains imprison'd by those skies to dwell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ranges eternity without the leave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of death, nor waits the passage of the grave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When pains eternal, and eternal bliss,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When these high cares your weary thoughts dismiss,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In heavenly numbers you your soul unbend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And for your ease to deathless fame descend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye kings! would ye true greatness understand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Read Seneca grown rich in Granville's hand.<a id="noteref_63" name="noteref_63" href="#note_63"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">63</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Behold the glories of your life complete!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still at a flow, and permanently great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">New moments shed new pleasures as they fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And yet your greatest is, that you must die.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus Anna saw, and rais'd you to the seat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of honour, and confess'd her servant great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Confess'd, not made him such; for faithful fame</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Her trumpet swell'd long since with Granville's name;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though you in modesty the title wear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your name shall be the title of your heir;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Farther than ermine, make his glory known,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And cast in shades the favour of a throne.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page334">[pg 334]</span><a name="Pg334" id="Pg334" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From thrones the beam of high distinction springs;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The soul's endowments from the King of kings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lo! one great day calls forth ten mighty peers!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Produce ten Granvilles in five thousand years;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Anna, be thou content to fix the fate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of various kingdoms, and control the great;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But O! to bid thy Granville brighter shine!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To him that great prerogative resign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who the sun's height can raise at pleasure higher,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His lamp illumine, set his flames on fire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Yet still one bliss, one glory, I forbear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A darling friend whom near your heart you wear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That lovely youth, my lord, whom you must blame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That I grow thus familiar with your name.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He's friendly, open, in his conduct nice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor serve these virtues to atone for vice:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Vice has he none, or such as none wish less,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But friends indeed, good-nature in excess.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You cannot boast the merit of a choice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In making him your own, 'twas nature's voice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which call'd too loud by man to be withstood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pleading a tie far nearer than of blood;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Similitude of manners, such a mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As makes you less the wonder of mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such ease his common converse recommends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As he ne'er felt a passion, but his friend's;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet fix'd his principles, beyond the force</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of all beneath the sun, to bend his course.<a id="noteref_64" name="noteref_64" href="#note_64"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">64</span></span></a></div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page335">[pg 335]</span><a name="Pg335" id="Pg335" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus the tall cedar, beautiful and fair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flatters the motions of the wanton air;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Salutes each passing breeze with head reclin'd:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The pliant branches dance in every wind:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But fix'd the stem her upright state maintains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the fury of the north disdains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How are you bless'd in such a matchless friend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Alas! with me the joys of friendship end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O Harrison! I must, I will complain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tears soothe the soul's distress, tho' shed in vain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Didst thou return, and bless thy native shore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With welcome peace, and is my friend no more?—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy task was early done, and I must own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Death kind to thee, but ah! to thee alone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But 'tis in me a vanity to mourn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sorrows of the great thy tomb adorn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Strafford and Bolingbroke the loss perceive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They grieve, and make thee envied in thy grave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With aching heart, and a foreboding mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I night to day in painful journey join'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When first inform'd of his approaching fate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But reach'd the partner of my soul too late:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twas past, his cheek was cold; that tuneful tongue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which Isis charm'd with its melodious song,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now languish'd, wanted strength to speak his pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Scarce rais'd a feeble groan, and sunk again:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each art of life, in which he bore a part,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shot like an arrow through my bleeding heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To what serv'd all his promis'd wealth and power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But more to load that most unhappy hour?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page336">[pg 336]</span><a name="Pg336" id="Pg336" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet still prevail'd the greatness of his mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That, not in health, or life itself confin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Felt through his mortal pangs Britannia's peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mounted to joy, and smil'd in death's embrace.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His spirit now just ready to resign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No longer now his own, no longer mine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He grasps my hand, his swimming eyeballs roll,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My hand he grasps, and enters in my soul:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then with a groan—Support me, O! beware</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of holding worth, however great, too dear!<a id="noteref_65" name="noteref_65" href="#note_65"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">65</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Pardon, my lord, the privilege of grief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That in untimely freedom seeks relief;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To better fate your love I recommend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O! may you never lose so dear a friend!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May nothing interrupt your happy hours;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enjoy the blessings peace on Europe showers:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor yet disdain those blessings to adorn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To make the muse immortal, you was born.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sing; and in latest time, when story's dark,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">This period your surviving fame shall mark;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Save from the gulf of years this glorious age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And thus illustrate their historian's page.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The crown of Spain in doubtful balance hung,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Anna Britain sway'd, when Granville sung:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That noted year Europa sheath'd her sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When this great man was first saluted lord.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc63" id="toc63"></a><a name="pdf64" id="pdf64"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page337">[pg 337]</span><a name="Pg337" id="Pg337" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Two Epistles to Mr. Pope</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Concerning the Authors of the Age. 1730.</span></h1> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc65" id="toc65"></a><a name="pdf66" id="pdf66"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Epistle I.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whilst you at Twickenham plan the future wood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or turn the volumes of the wise and good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our senate meets; at parties, parties bawl,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And pamphlets stun the streets, and load the stall;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So rushing tides bring things obscene to light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Foul wrecks emerge, and dead dogs swim in sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The civil torrent foams, the tumult reigns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Codrus' prose works up, and Lico's strains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lo! what from cellars rise, what rush from high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where speculation roosted near the sky;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Letters, essays, sock, buskin, satire, song,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And all the garret thunders on the throng!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O Pope! I burst; nor can, nor will, refrain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I'll write; let others, in their turn, complain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Truce, truce, ye Vandals! my tormented ear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Less dreads a pillory than a pamphleteer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I've heard myself to death; and, plagu'd each hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shan't I return the vengeance in my power?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For who can write the true absurd like me?——</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy pardon, Codrus! who, I mean, but thee?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Pope! if like mine, or Codrus', were thy style,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The blood of vipers had not stain'd thy file;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page338">[pg 338]</span><a name="Pg338" id="Pg338" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Merit less solid, less despite had bred;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They had not bit, and then they had not bled.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fame is a public mistress, none enjoys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But, more or less, his rival's peace destroys;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With fame, in just proportion, envy grows;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man that makes a character, makes foes:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Slight, peevish insects round a genius rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As a bright day awakes the world of flies;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With hearty malice, but with feeble wing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(To show they live) they flutter, and they sting:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But as by depredations wasps proclaim</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The fairest fruit, so these the fairest fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Shall we not censure all the motley train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether with ale irriguous, or champaign?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether they tread the vale of prose, or climb,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And whet their appetites on cliffs of rhyme;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The college sloven, or embroider'd spark;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The purple prelate, or the parish clerk;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The quiet quidnunc, or demanding prig;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The plaintiff tory, or defendant whig;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rich, poor, male, female, young, old, gay, or sad;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether extremely witty, or quite mad;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Profoundly dull, or shallowly polite;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men that read well, or men that only write;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether peers, porters, tailors, tune the reeds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And measuring words to measuring shapes succeeds;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For bankrupts write, when ruin'd shops are shut,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As maggots crawl from out a perish'd nut.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His hammer this, and that his trowel quits,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page339">[pg 339]</span><a name="Pg339" id="Pg339" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, wanting sense for tradesmen, serve for wits.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By thriving men subsists each other trade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of every broken craft a writer's made:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus his material, paper, takes its birth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From tatter'd rags of all the stuff on earth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Hail, fruitful isle! to thee alone belong</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Millions of wits, and brokers in old song:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thee well a land of liberty we name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where all are free to scandal and to shame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy sons, by print, may set their hearts at ease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And be mankind's contempt, whene'er they please;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like trodden filth, their vile and abject sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is unperceiv'd, but when it gives offence:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their heavy prose our injur'd reason tires;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their verse immoral kindles loose desires:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our age they puzzle, and corrupt our prime,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our sport and pity, punishment and crime.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What glorious motives urge our authors on,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus to undo, and thus to be undone?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One loses his estate, and down he sits,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To show (in vain!) he still retains his wits:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Another marries, and his dear proves keen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He writes as an hypnotic for the spleen:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some write, confin'd by physic; some, by debt;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some, for 'tis Sunday; some, because 'tis wet;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through private pique some do the public right,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And love their king and country out of spite:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Another writes because his father writ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And proves himself a bastard by his wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Has Lico learning, humour, thought profound?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page340">[pg 340]</span><a name="Pg340" id="Pg340" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Neither: why write then? He wants twenty pound:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His belly, not his brains, this impulse give;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He rubs his awful front, and takes his ream,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With no provision made, but of his theme;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Perhaps a title has his fancy smit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or a quaint motto, which he thinks has wit:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He writes, in inspiration puts his trust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' wrong his thoughts, the gods will make them just;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Genius directly from the gods descends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And who by labour would distrust his friends?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus having reason'd with consummate skill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In immortality he dips his quill:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, since blank paper is denied the press,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He mingles the whole alphabet by guess:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In various sets, which various words compose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So sounds spontaneous from the sibyl broke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The priests found out the meaning, if they could;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nations star'd at what none understood.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Clodio dress'd, danc'd, drank, visited, (the whole</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And great concern of an immortal soul!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Oft have I said, "Awake! exist! and strive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For birth! nor think to loiter is to live!"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As oft I overheard the demon say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who daily met the loit'rer in his way,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"I'll meet thee, youth, at White's:" the youth replies,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page341">[pg 341]</span><a name="Pg341" id="Pg341" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"I'll meet thee there," and falls his sacrifice;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His fortune squander'd, leaves his virtue bare</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To ev'ry bribe, and blind to ev'ry snare:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Clodio for bread his indolence must quit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or turn a soldier, or commence a wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such heroes have we! all, but life, they stake;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How must Spain tremble, and the German shake!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such writers have we! all, but sense, they print;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ev'n George's praise is dated from the mint.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In arms contemptible, in arts profane,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such swords, such pens, disgrace a monarch's reign.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Reform your lives before you thus aspire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And steal (for you can steal) celestial fire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">O the just contrast! O the beauteous strife!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twixt their cool writings, and pindaric life:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They write with phlegm, but then they live with fire;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They cheat the lender, and their works the buyer.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I reverence misfortune, not deride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I pity poverty, but laugh at pride:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For who so sad, but must some mirth confess</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">At gay Castruchio's miscellaneous dress?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though there's but one of the dull works he wrote,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There's ten editions of his old lac'd coat.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">These, nature's commoners, who want a home,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Claim the wide world for their majestic dome;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They make a private study of the street;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, looking full on every man they meet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Run souse against his chaps; who stands amaz'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To find they did not see, but only gaz'd.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page342">[pg 342]</span><a name="Pg342" id="Pg342" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How must these bards be rapt into the skies!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">you need not read, you feel their ecstasies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Will they persist? 'Tis Madness; Lintot, run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">See them confin'd—"O that's already done."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Most, as by leases, by the works they print,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Have took, for life, possession of the mint.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If you mistake, and pity these poor men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">est Ulubris, they cry, and write again.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Such wits their nuisance manfully expose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And then pronounce just judges learning's foes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O frail conclusion; the reverse is true;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If foes to learning, they'd be friends to you:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Treat them, ye judges! with an honest scorn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And weed the cockle from the generous corn:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There's true good nature in your disrepect;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In justice to the good, the bad neglect:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For immortality, if hardships plead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It is not theirs who write, but ours who read.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But, O! what wisdom can convince a fool,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But that 'tis dulness to conceive him dull?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis sad experience takes the censor's part,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Conviction, not from reason, but from smart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">a virgin author, recent from the press,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sheets yet wet, applauds his great success;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Surveys them, reads them, takes their charms to bed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those in his hand, and glory in his head;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis joy too great; a fever of delight!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His heart beats thick, nor close his eyes all night:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But rising the next morn to clasp his fame,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page343">[pg 343]</span><a name="Pg343" id="Pg343" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He finds that without sleeping he could dream:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So sparks, they say, take goddesses to bed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And find next day the devil in their stead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">In vain advertisements the town o'erspread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They're epitaphs, and the work is dead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who press for fame, but small recruits will raise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis volunteers alone can give the bays.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A famous author visits a great man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of his immortal work displays the plan,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And says, "Sir, I'm your friend; all fears dismiss;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your glory, and my own, shall live by this;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your power is fixt, your fame thro' time convey'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Britain Europe's queen—if I am paid."</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A statesman has his answer in a trice:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">"Sir, such a genius is beyond all price;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What man can pay for this?"—Away he turns;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His work is folded, and his bosom burns:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His patron he will patronize no more;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But rushes like a tempest out of door.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lost is the patriot, and extinct his name!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Out comes the piece, another, and the same;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For A, his magic pen evokes an O,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And turns the tide of Europe on the foe:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He rams his quill with scandal, and with scoff;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But 'tis so very foul, it wont go off:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dreadful his thunders, while unprinted, roar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But when once publish'd, they are heard no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus distant bugbears fright, but, nearer draw,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The block's a block, and turns to mirth your awe.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can those oblige, whose heads and hearts are such?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page344">[pg 344]</span><a name="Pg344" id="Pg344" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No; every party's tainted by their touch.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Infected persons fly each public place;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And none, or enemies alone, embrace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To the foul fiend their every passion's sold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They love, and hate, extempore, for gold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What image of their fury can we form?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dulness and rage, a puddle in a storm.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rest they in peace? If you are pleas'd to buy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To swell your sails, like Lapland winds, they fly:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Write they with rage? The tempest quickly flags;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A state Ulysses tames 'em with his bags;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let him be what he will, Turk, Pagan, Jew:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For Christian ministers of state are few.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Behind the curtain lurks the fountain head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That pours his politics through pipes of lead,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which far and near ejaculate, and spout</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er tea and coffee, poison to the rout:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But when they have bespatter'd all they may,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The statesman throws his filthy squirts away!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With golden forceps, these, another takes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And state elixirs of the vipers makes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The richest statesman wants wherewith to pay</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A servile sycophant, if well they weigh</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How much it costs the wretch to be so base;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor can the greatest powers enough disgrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enough chastise, such prostitute applause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If well they weigh how much it stains their cause.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But are our writers ever in the wrong?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Does virtue ne'er seduce the venal tongue?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yes; if well brib'd, for virtue's self they fight;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page345">[pg 345]</span><a name="Pg345" id="Pg345" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still in the wrong, tho' champions for the right:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whoe'er their crimes for interest only quit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sin on in virtue, and good deeds commit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nought but inconstancy Britannia meets,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And broken faith in their abandon'd sheets;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From the same hand how various is the page!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What civil war their brother pamphlets wage!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tracts battle tracts, self-contradictions glare;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Say, is this lunacy?—I wish it were.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If such our writers, startled at the sight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Felons may bless their stars they cannot write!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">How justly Proteus' transmigrations fit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The monstrous changes of a modern wit!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, such a gentle stream of eloquence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As seldom rises to the verge of sense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, by mad rage, transform'd into a flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which yet fit engines, well applied, can tame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now, on immodest trash, the swine obscene,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Invites the town to sup at Drury Lane;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A dreadful lion, now he roars at power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which sends him to his brothers at the Tower;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He's now a serpent, and his double tongue</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Salutes, nay licks, the feet of those he stung;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What knot can bind him, his evasion such?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One knot he well deserves, which might do much.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The flood, flame, swine, the lion, and the snake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Those fivefold monsters, modern authors make:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The snake reigns most; snakes, Pliny says, are bred</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When the brain's perish'd in a human head.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page346">[pg 346]</span><a name="Pg346" id="Pg346" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ye grov'ling, trodden, whipt, stript, turncoat things,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Made up of venom, volumes, stains, and stings!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thrown from the tree of knowledge, like you, curst</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To scribble in the dust, was snake the first.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">What if the figure should in fact prove true!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It did in Elkenah, why not in you?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Poor Elkenah, all other changes past,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For bread in Smithfield dragons hist at last,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And found his manners suited to his shape:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such is the fate of talents misapplied;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So liv'd your prototype; and so he died.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Th' abandon'd manners of our writing train</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May tempt mankind to think religion vain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But in their fate, their habit, and their mien,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That gods there are is eminently seen:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Heaven stands absolv'd by vengeance on their pen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And marks the murderers of fame from men:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through meagre jaws they draw their venal breath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As ghastly as their brothers in Macbeth:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Their feet through faithless leather meet the dirt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The transient vestments of these frugal men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hastens to paper for our mirth again:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Too soon (O merry melancholy fate!)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They beg in rhyme, and warble through a grate:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man lampoon'd forgets it at the sight;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The friend through pity gives, the foe through spite;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And though full conscious of his injur'd purse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lintot relents, nor Curll can wish them worse.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page347">[pg 347]</span><a name="Pg347" id="Pg347" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So fare the men, who writers dare commence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Without their patent, probity, and sense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">From these, their politics our quidnuncs seek,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And Saturday's the learning of the week:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These labouring wits, like paviours, mend our ways,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With heavy, huge, repeated, flat essays;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ram their coarse nonsense down, though ne'er so dull;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And hem at every thump upon your skull:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These staunch bred writing hounds begin the cry,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And honest folly echoes to the lie.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O how I laugh, when I a blockhead see,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thanking a villain for his probity;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who stretches out a most respectful ear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With snares for woodcocks in his holy leer:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It tickles thro' my soul to hear the cock's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sincere encomium on his friend the fox,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sole patron of his liberties and rights!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While graceless Reynard listens—till he bites.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As when the trumpet sounds, th' o'erloaded state</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Discharges all her poor and profligate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Crimes of all kinds dishonour'd weapons wield,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And prisons pour their filth into the field;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus nature's refuse, and the dregs of men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Compose the black militia of the pen.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc67" id="toc67"></a><a name="pdf68" id="pdf68"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page348">[pg 348]</span><a name="Pg348" id="Pg348" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Epistle II.</span></h2> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">From Oxford.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All write at London; shall the rage abate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here, where it most should shine, the muses' seat?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where, mortal or immortal, as they please,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The learn'd may choose eternity, or ease?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has not a <a id="noteref_66" name="noteref_66" href="#note_66"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">66</span></span></a>royal patron wisely strove</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To woo the muse in her Athenian grove?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Added new strings to her harmonious shell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And given new tongues to those who spoke so well?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let these instruct, with truth's illustrious ray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Awake the world, and scare our owls away.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Meanwhile, O friend! indulge me, if I give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some needful precepts how to write, and live!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Serious should be an author's final views;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who write for pure amusement, ne'er amuse.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">An author! 'tis a venerable name!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How few deserve it, and what numbers claim!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unblest with sense above their peers refin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That sole proprietor of just applause.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Ye restless men, who pant for letter'd praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With whom would you consult to gain the bays?—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With those great authors whose fam'd works you read?</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page349">[pg 349]</span><a name="Pg349" id="Pg349" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis well: go, then, consult the laurell'd shade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What answer will the laurell'd shade return?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hear it, and tremble! he commands you burn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The noblest works his envied genius writ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That boast of nought more excellent than wit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If this be true, as 'tis a truth most dread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Woe to the page which has not that to plead!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fontaine and Chaucer, dying, wish'd unwrote,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sprightliest efforts of their wanton thought:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sidney and Waller, brightest sons of fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Condemn the charm of ages to the flame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And in one point is all true wisdom cast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To think that early we must think at last.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Immortal wits, ev'n dead, break nature's laws,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Injurious still to virtue's sacred cause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And their guilt growing, as their bodies rot,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Revers'd ambition!) pant to be forgot.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thus ends your courted fame: does lucre then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The sacred thirst of gold, betray your pen?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In prose 'tis blameable, in verse 'tis worse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Provokes the muse, extorts Apollo's curse:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His sacred influence never should be sold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis arrant simony to sing for gold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis immortality should fire your mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Scorn a less paymaster than all mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If bribes you seek, know this, ye writing tribe!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who writes for virtue has the largest bribe:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All's on the party of the virtuous man;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The good will surely serve him, if they can;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bad, when interest, or ambition guide,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page350">[pg 350]</span><a name="Pg350" id="Pg350" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And 'tis at once their interest and their pride:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But should both fail to take him to their care,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He boasts a greater friend, and both may spare.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Letters to man uncommon light dispense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And what is virtue, but superior sense?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In parts and learning you who place your pride,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your faults are crimes, your crimes are double dyed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What is a scandal of the first renown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But letter'd knaves, and atheists in a gown?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">'Tis harder far to please than give offence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The least misconduct damns the brightest sense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each shallow pate, that cannot read your name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can read your life, and will be proud to blame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flagitious manners make impressions deep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">On those, that o'er a page of Milton sleep:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor in their dulness think to save your shame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True, these are fools; but wise men say the same.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Wits are a despicable race of men,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If they confine their talents to the pen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When the man shocks us, while the writer shines,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our scorn in life, our envy in his lines.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet, proud of parts, with prudence some dispense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And play the fool, because they're men of sense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What instances bleed recent in each thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of men to ruin by their genius brought!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Against their wills what numbers ruin shun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Purely through want of wit to be undone!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nature has shown, by making it so rare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That wit's a jewel which we need not wear.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page351">[pg 351]</span><a name="Pg351" id="Pg351" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of plain sound sense life's current coin is made;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With that we drive the most substantial trade.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Prudence protects and guides us; wit betrays;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A splendid source of ill ten thousand ways;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A certain snare to miseries immense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A gay prerogative from common sense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unless strong judgment that wild thing can tame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And break to paths of virtue and of fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But grant your judgment equal to the best,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sense fills your head, and genius fires your breast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Yet still forbear: your wit (consider well)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis great to show, but greater to conceal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As it is great to seize the golden prize</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of place or power; but greater to despise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If still you languish for an author's name,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Think private merit less than public fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And fancy not to write is not to live;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Deserve, and take, the great prerogative.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But ponder what it is; how dear 'twill cost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To write one page which you may justly boast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sense may be good, yet not deserve the press;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who write, an awful character profess;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The world as pupil of their wisdom claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And for their stipend an immortal fame:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nothing but what is solid or refin'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Should dare ask public audience of mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Severely weigh your learning, and your wit:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Keep down your pride by what is nobly writ:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No writer, fam'd in your own way, pass o'er;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Much trust example, but reflection more:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page352">[pg 352]</span><a name="Pg352" id="Pg352" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More had the ancients writ, they more had taught;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which shows some work is left for modern thought.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This weigh'd, perfection know; and known, adore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Toil, burn for that; but do not aim at more;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above, beneath it, the just limits fix;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And zealously prefer four lines to six.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Write, and re-write, blot out, and write again,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And for its swiftness ne'er applaud your pen.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Leave to the jockeys that Newmarket praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Slow runs the Pegasus that wins the bays.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Much time for immortality to pay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is just and wise; for less is thrown away.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Time only can mature the labouring brain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Time is the father, and the midwife pain:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The same good sense that makes a man excel,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still makes him doubt he ne'er has written well.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Downright impossibilities they seek;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What man can be immortal in a week?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Excuse no fault; though beautiful, 'twill harm;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One fault shocks more than twenty beauties charm.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our age demands correctness; Addison</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And you this commendable hurt have done.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Now writers find, as once Achilles found,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The whole is mortal, if a part's unsound.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He that strikes out, and strikes not out the best,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pours lustre in, and dignifies the rest:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Give e'er so little, if what's right be there,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We praise for what you burn, and what you spare:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page353">[pg 353]</span><a name="Pg353" id="Pg353" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The part you burn, smells sweet before the shrine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And is as incense to the part divine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Nor frequent write, though you can do it well;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men may too oft, though not too much, excel.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A few good works gain fame; more sink their price;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mankind are fickle, and hate paying twice:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They granted you writ well, what can they more,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unless you let them praise for giving o'er?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Do boldly what you do, and let your page</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Smile, if it smiles, and if it rages, rage.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So faintly Lucius censures and commends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That Lucius has no foes, except his friends.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let satire less engage you than applause;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">It shows a gen'rous mind to wink at flaws:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is genius yours? be yours a glorious end,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Be your king's, country's, truth's, religion's friend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The public glory by your own beget;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Run nations, run posterity, in debt.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And since the fam'd alone make others live,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">First have that glory you presume to give.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis dull to be as witty as you can.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Satire recoils whenever charg'd too high;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As the soft plume gives swiftness to the dart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Good breeding sends the satire to the heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Painters and surgeons may the structure scan;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Genius and morals be with you the man:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Defaults in those alone should give offence!</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page354">[pg 354]</span><a name="Pg354" id="Pg354" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who strikes the person, pleads his innocence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My narrow minded satire can't extend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To Codrus' form; I'm not so much his friend:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Himself should publish that (the world agree)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Before his works, or in the pillory.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let him be black, fair, tall, short, thin, or fat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Dirty or clean, I find no theme in that.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is that call'd humour? It has this pretence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis neither virtue, breeding, wit, or sense.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unless you boast the genius of a Swift,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Beware of humour, the dull rogue's last shift.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Can others write like you? Your task give o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis printing what was publish'd long before.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If nought peculiar through your labours run,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They're duplicates, and twenty are but one.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Think frequently, think close, read nature, turn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Men's manners o'er, and half your volumes burn;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To nurse with quick reflection be your strife,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thoughts born from present objects, warm from life:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When most unsought, such inspirations rise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Slighted by fools, and cherish'd by the wise:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Expect peculiar fame from these alone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">These make an author, these are all your own.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Life, like their Bibles, coolly men turn o'er;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence unexperienc'd children of threescore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">True, all men think of course, as all men dream;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And if they slightly think, 'tis much the same.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Letters admit not of a half renown;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page355">[pg 355]</span><a name="Pg355" id="Pg355" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They give you nothing, or they give a crown.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No work e'er gain'd true fame, or ever can,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But what did honour to the name of man.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Weighty the subject, cogent the discourse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Clear be the style, the very sound of force;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Easy the conduct, simple the design,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Striking the moral, and the soul divine:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let nature art, and judgment wit, exceed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er learning reason reign; o'er that, your creed:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus virtue's seeds, at once, and laurel's, grow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Do thus, and rise a Pope, or a Despreau:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And when your genius exquisitely shines,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Live up to the full lustre of your lines:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Parts but expose those men who virtue quit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">A fallen angel is a fallen wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And they plead Lucifer's detested cause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who for bare talents challenge our applause.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Would you restore just honours to the pen?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From able writers rise to worthy men.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Who's this with nonsense, nonsense would restrain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who's this (they cry) so vainly schools the vain?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who damns our trash, with so much trash replete?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As, three ells round, huge Cheyne rails at meat?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Shall I with Bavius then my voice exalt,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And challenge all mankind to find one fault?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With huge examens overwhelm my page,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And darken reason with dogmatic rage?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">As if, one tedious volume writ in rhyme,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In prose a duller could excuse the crime:</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page356">[pg 356]</span><a name="Pg356" id="Pg356" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sure, next to writing, the most idle thing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is gravely to harangue on what we sing.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">At that tribunal stands the writing tribe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which nothing can intimidate or bribe:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Time is the judge; time has nor friend nor foe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">False fame must wither, and the true will grow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Arm'd with this truth, all critics I defy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For if I fall, by my own pen I die;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While snarlers strive with proud but fruitless pain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To wound immortals, or to slay the slain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Sore prest with danger, and in awful dread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of twenty pamphlets levell'd at my head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus have I forg'd a buckler in my brain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Of recent form, to serve me this campaign:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And safely hope to quit the dreadful field</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Delug'd with ink, and sleep behind my shield;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Unless dire Codrus rouses to the fray</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In all his might, and damns me—for a day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As turns a flock of geese, and, on the green,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Poke out their foolish necks in awkward spleen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Ridiculous in rage!) to hiss, not bite,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">So war their quills, when sons of dulness write.</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc69" id="toc69"></a><a name="pdf70" id="pdf70"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page357">[pg 357]</span><a name="Pg357" id="Pg357" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">By Mr. Doddington, Afterwards Lord Melcombe.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—Quæ censet amiculus, ut si</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Cæcus iter monstrare velit</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Hor.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though strength of genius, by experience taught,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Gives thee to sound the depths of human thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To trace the various workings of the mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And rule the secret springs, that rule mankind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Rare gift!) yet, Walpole, wilt thou condescend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To listen, if thy unexperienc'd friend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Can aught of use impart, though void of skill,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And win attention by sincere good-will;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For friendship, sometimes, want of parts supplies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The heart may furnish what the head denies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As when the rapid Rhone, o'er swelling tides,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To grace old ocean's court, in triumph rides,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' rich his source, he drains a thousand springs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor scorns the tribute each small rivulet brings.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">So thou shalt, hence, absorb each feeble ray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each dawn of meaning, in thy brighter day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Shalt like, or, where thou canst not like, excuse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Since no mean interest shall profane the muse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No malice, wrapt in truth's disguise, offend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor flattery taint the freedom of the friend.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page358">[pg 358]</span><a name="Pg358" id="Pg358" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When first a generous mind surveys the great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And views the crowds that on their fortune wait;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pleas'd with the show (though little understood)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He only seeks the power, to do the good;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thinks, till he tries, 'tis godlike to dispose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gratitude still springs, where bounty sows;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That every grant sincere affection wins,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And where our wants have end, our love begins:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But those who long the paths of state have trod,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Learn from the clamours of the murmuring crowd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which cramm'd, yet craving still, their gates besiege,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis easier far to give, than to oblige.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">This of thy conduct seems the nicest part,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The chief perfection of the statesman's art,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To give to fair assent a fairer face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or soften a refusal into grace:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But few there are that can be truly kind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or know to fix their favours on the mind;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence, some, whene'er they would oblige, offend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, while they make the fortune, lose the friend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still give, unthank'd; still squander, not bestow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For great men want not, what to give, but how.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The race of men that follow courts, 'tis true,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Think all they get, and more than all, their due;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Still ask, but ne'er consult their own deserts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And measure by their interest, not their parts:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From this mistake so many men we see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But ill become the thing they wish'd to be;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Hence discontent, and fresh demands arise,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page359">[pg 359]</span><a name="Pg359" id="Pg359" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More power, more favour in the great man's eyes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">All feel a want, though none the cause suspects,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But hate their patron, for their own defects;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such none can please, but who reforms their hearts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, when he gives them places, gives them parts.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">As these o'erprize their worth, so sure the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">May sell their favour at too dear a rate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When merit pines, while clamour is preferr'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And long attachment waits among the herd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When no distinction, where distinction 's due,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Marks from the many the superior few;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When strong cabal constrains them to be just,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And makes them give at last—because they must;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What hopes that men of real worth should prize,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What neither friendship gives, nor merit buys?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The man who justly o'er the whole presides,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His well-weigh'd choice with wise affection guides;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Knows when to stop with grace, and when advance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor gives through importunity or chance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But thinks how little gratitude is ow'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When favours are extorted, not bestow'd.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">When, safe on shore ourselves, we see the crowd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Surround the great, importunate, and loud;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through such a tumult, 'tis no easy task</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To drive the man of real worth to ask:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Surrounded thus, and giddy with the show,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis hard for great men rightly to bestow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From hence so few are skill'd, in either case,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To ask with dignity, or give with grace.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page360">[pg 360]</span><a name="Pg360" id="Pg360" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Sometimes the great, seduc'd by love of parts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Consult our genius, and neglect our hearts;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Pleas'd with the glittering sparks that genius flings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They lift us, towering on their eagle's wings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mark out the flights by which themselves begun,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And teach our dazzled eyes to bear the sun;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Till we forget the hand that made us great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And grow to envy, not to emulate:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To emulate, a generous warmth implies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To reach the virtues, that make great men rise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But envy wears a mean malignant face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And aims not at their virtues—but their place.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Such to oblige, how vain is the pretence!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When every favour is a fresh offence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By which superior power is still implied,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, while it helps their fortune, hurts their pride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Slight is the hate, neglect or hardships breed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But those who hate from envy, hate indeed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">"Since so perplex'd the choice, whom shall we trust?"</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Methinks I hear thee cry—The brave and just;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The man by no mean fears or hopes controll'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Who serves thee from affection, not for gold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">We love the honest, and esteem the brave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Despise the coxcomb, but detest the knave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">No show of parts the truly wise seduce,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To think that knaves can be of real use.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">The man, who contradicts the public voice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And strives to dignify a worthless choice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Attempts a task that on that choice reflects,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page361">[pg 361]</span><a name="Pg361" id="Pg361" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And lends us light to point out new defects.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">One worthless man, that gains what he pretends,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Disgusts a thousand unpretending friends:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And since no art can make a counterpass,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or add the weight of gold to mimic brass,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When princes to bad ore their image join,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">They more debase the stamp, than raise the coin.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Be thine the care, true merit to reward</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And gain the good—nor will that task be hard;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Souls form'd alike so quick by nature blend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An honest man is more than half thy friend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Him, no mean views, or haste to rise, shall sway,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thy choice to sully, or thy trust betray:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ambition, here, shall at due distance stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor is wit dangerous in an honest hand:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Besides, if failings at the bottom lie,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">We view those failings with a lover's eye;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though small his genius, let him do his best,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Our wishes and belief supply the rest.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Let others barter servile faith for gold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His friendship is not to be bought or sold:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Fierce opposition he, unmov'd, shall face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Modest in favour, daring in disgrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To share thy adverse fate alone, pretend;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In power, a servant; out of power, a friend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Here pour thy favours in an ample flood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Indulge thy boundless thirst of doing good:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor think that good to him alone confin'd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Such to oblige, is to oblige mankind.</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page362">[pg 362]</span><a name="Pg362" id="Pg362" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">If thus thy mighty master's steps thou trace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The brave to cherish, and the good to grace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Long shalt thou stand from rage and faction free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And teach us long to love the king, through thee:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Or fall a victim dangerous to the foe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And make him tremble when he strikes the blow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">While honour, gratitude, affection join</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To deck thy close, and brighten thy decline;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Illustrious doom!) the great, when this displac'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With friendship guarded, and with virtue grac'd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In awful ruin, like Rome's senate, fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The prey and worship of the wondering Gaul.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">No doubt, to genius some reward is due,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">(Excluding that, were satirizing you;)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But yet, believe thy undesigning friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When truth and genius for thy choice contend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tho' both have weight when in the balance cast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let probity be first, and parts the last.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">On these foundations if thou dar'st be great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And check the growth of folly and deceit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When party rage shall droop thro' length of days,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And calumny be ripen'd into praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then future times shall to thy worth allow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That fame, which envy would call flattery now.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus far my zeal, though for the task unfit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Has pointed out the rocks where others split;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By that inspir'd, though stranger to the Nine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And negligent of any fame—but thine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">I take the friendly, but superfluous part;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You act from nature what I teach from art.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc71" id="toc71"></a><a name="pdf72" id="pdf72"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page363">[pg 363]</span><a name="Pg363" id="Pg363" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Old Man's Relapse.</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Verses Occasioned by the Foregoing Epistle.</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Sopitos suscita ignes.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Virg.</span></span></p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">From man's too curious and impatient sight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The future, Heaven involves in thickest night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Credit gray hairs: though freedom much we boast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Some least perform, what they determine most.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What sudden changes our resolves betray!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To-morrow is the satire on to-day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And shows its weakness. Whom shall men believe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When constantly themselves, themselves deceive?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Long had I bid my once-loved muse adieu;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">You warm old age; my passion burns anew.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">How sweet your verse! how great your force of mind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">What power of words! what skill in dark mankind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Polite the conduct; generous the design;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And beauty files, and strength sustains, each line.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus Mars and Venus are, once more, beset;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Your wit has caught them in its golden net.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But what strikes home with most exalted grace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is, haughty genius taught to know its place;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, where worth shines, its humbled crest to bend,</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page364">[pg 364]</span><a name="Pg364" id="Pg364" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With zeal devoted to that godlike end.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When we discern so rich a vein of sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Through the smooth flow of purest eloquence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis like the limpid streams of Tagus roll'd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O'er boundless wealth, o'er shining beds of gold.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But whence so finish'd, so refin'd a piece?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The tongue denies it to old Rome and Greece;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The genius bids the moderns doubt their claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And slowly take possession of the fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But I nor know, nor care, by whom 'twas writ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Enough for me that 'tis from human wit;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That soothes my pride: all glory in the pen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which has done honour to the race of men.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">But this have others done; a like applause</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An ancient and a modern Horace draws.<a id="noteref_67" name="noteref_67" href="#note_67"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">67</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But they to glory by degrees arose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Meridian lustre you at once disclose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Tis continence of mind, unknown before,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">To write so well, and yet to write no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">More bright renown can human nature claim,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Than to deserve, and fly immortal fame?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Next to the godlike praise of writing well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Is on that praise with just delight to dwell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">O, for some God my drooping soul to raise!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">That I might imitate, as well as praise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For all commend: e'en foes your fame confess;</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page365">[pg 365]</span><a name="Pg365" id="Pg365" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Nor would Augustus' age have priz'd it less;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">An age, which had not held its pride so long,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">But for the want of so complete a song.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">A golden period shall from you commence:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Peace shall be sign'd 'twixt wit and manly sense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Whether your genius or your rank they view,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The muses find their Halifax in you.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Like him succeed! nor think my zeal is shown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For you; 'tis Britain's interest, not your own;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">For lofty stations are but golden snares,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Which tempt the great to fall in love with cares.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">I would proceed, but age has chill'd my vein,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">'Twas a short fever, and I'm cool again.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Though life I hate, methinks I could renew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Its tasteless, painful course, to sing of you.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When such the subject, who shall curb his flight?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">When such your genius, who shall dare to write?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In pure respect, I give my rhyming o'er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And, to commend you most, commend no more.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Adieu, whoe'er thou art! on death's pale coast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Erelong I'll talk thee o'er with Dryden's ghost;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The bard will smile. A last, a long farewell!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Henceforth I hide me in my dusky cell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There wait the friendly stroke that sets me free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And think of immortality and thee—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">My strains are number'd by the tuneful Nine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Each maid presents her thanks, and all present thee mine.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc73" id="toc73"></a><a name="pdf74" id="pdf74"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page366">[pg 366]</span><a name="Pg366" id="Pg366" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Verses</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Sent by Lord Melcombe to Dr. Young, Not Long Before His Lordship's Death.</span><a id="noteref_68" name="noteref_68" href="#note_68"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">68</span></span></a></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Kind companion of my youth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Lov'd for genius, worth, and truth!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Take what friendship can impart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Tribute of a feeling heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Take the muse's latest spark,<a id="noteref_69" name="noteref_69" href="#note_69"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">69</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ere we drop into the dark.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He, who parts and virtue gave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Bad thee look beyond the grave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Genius soars, and virtue guides;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Above, the love of God presides.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There's a gulf 'twixt us and God;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let the gloomy path be trod:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why stand shivering on the shore?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Why not boldly venture o'er?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Where unerring virtue guides,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Let us have the winds and tides:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Safe, through seas of doubts and fears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Rides the bark which virtue steers.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">The End</p> +</div> + +</div> +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-back" style="margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + + + + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Footnotes</span></h1> + <dl class="tei tei-list-footnotes"><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_1" name="note_1" href="#noteref_1">1.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Duke of Marlborough.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_2" name="note_2" href="#noteref_2">2.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Westminster Abbey.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_3" name="note_3" href="#noteref_3">3.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Founders of New College, Corpus Christi, and All Souls, +in Oxford; of all which the author was a member.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_4" name="note_4" href="#noteref_4">4.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here she embraces them.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_5" name="note_5" href="#noteref_5">5.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Val. Max.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_6" name="note_6" href="#noteref_6">6.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Horace.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_7" name="note_7" href="#noteref_7">7.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A famous statue.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_8" name="note_8" href="#noteref_8">8.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A famous tailor.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_9" name="note_9" href="#noteref_9">9.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This refers to the first satire.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_10" name="note_10" href="#noteref_10">10.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The name of a tulip.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_11" name="note_11" href="#noteref_11">11.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Letters sent to the author, signed Marcus.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_12" name="note_12" href="#noteref_12">12.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milton.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_13" name="note_13" href="#noteref_13">13.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A Danish dog of the Duke of Argyle.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_14" name="note_14" href="#noteref_14">14.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lap-dog.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_15" name="note_15" href="#noteref_15">15.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Shakespeare.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_16" name="note_16" href="#noteref_16">16.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">——Solem quis dicere falsum</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Audeat?</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Virg.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_17" name="note_17" href="#noteref_17">17.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Shakespeare.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_18" name="note_18" href="#noteref_18">18.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milton.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_19" name="note_19" href="#noteref_19">19.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Amphitryon.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_20" name="note_20" href="#noteref_20">20.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The king in danger by sea.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_21" name="note_21" href="#noteref_21">21.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hom. Il. lib. I.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_22" name="note_22" href="#noteref_22">22.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ecce Deus ramum Lethæo rore madentem, &c.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Virg.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_23" name="note_23" href="#noteref_23">23.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A new fund for Greenwich hospital, recommended from the throne.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_24" name="note_24" href="#noteref_24">24.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Written soon after King George the First's accession.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_25" name="note_25" href="#noteref_25">25.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is disputed amongst the critics who was the author of +the book of Job; some give it to Moses, some to others. As I +was engaged in this little performance, some arguments occurred +to me which favour the former of those opinions; +which arguments I have flung into the following notes, where +little else is to be expected.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_26" name="note_26" href="#noteref_26">26.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Almighty's speech, chapter xxxviii. &c. which is +what I paraphrase in this little work, is by much the finest +part of the noblest and most ancient poem in the world. +Bishop Patrick says, its grandeur is as much above all other +poetry, as thunder is louder than a whisper. In order to set +this distinguished part of the poem in a fuller light, and give +the reader a clearer conception of it, I have abridged the preceding +and subsequent parts of the poem, and joined them to +it; so that this piece is a sort of an epitome of the whole book +of Job.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I use the word paraphrase, because I want another which +might better answer to the uncommon liberties I have taken. +I have omitted, added, and transposed. The mountain, the +comet, the sun, and other parts, are entirely added: those +upon the peacock, the lion, &c. are much enlarged; and I +have thrown the whole into a method more suited to our notions +of regularity. The judicious, if they compare this piece +with the original, will, I flatter myself, find the reasons for +the great liberties I have indulged myself in through the +whole.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Longinus has a chapter on interrogations, which shows that +they contribute much to the sublime. This speech of the Almighty +is made up of them. Interrogation seems indeed the +proper style of majesty incensed. It differs from other manner +of reproof, as bidding a person execute himself does from +a common execution; for he that asks the guilty a proper +question, makes him, in effect, pass sentence on himself.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_27" name="note_27" href="#noteref_27">27.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The book of Job is well known to be dramatic, and, like +the tragedies of old Greece, is fiction built on truth. Probably +this most noble part of it, the Almighty speaking out of +the whirlwind, (so suitable to the after-practice of the Greek +stage, when there happened <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">dignus vindice nodus</span></span>,) is fictitious; +but is a fiction more agreeable to the time in which Job lived, +than to any since. Frequent before the law were the appearances +of the Almighty after this manner, Exod. c. xix. Ezek. +c. i. &c. Hence is he said to "dwell in thick darkness: and +have his way in the whirlwind."</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_28" name="note_28" href="#noteref_28">28.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is a very great air in all that precedes, but this is +signally sublime. We are struck with admiration to see the +vast and ungovernable ocean receiving commands, and punctually +obeying them; to find it like a managed horse, raging, +tossing, and foaming, but by the rule and direction of its master. +This passage yields in sublimity to that of "Let there be +light," &c., so much only as the absolute government of +nature yields to the creation of it.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_29" name="note_29" href="#noteref_29">29.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another argument that Moses was the author, is, that most +of the creatures here mentioned are Egyptian. The reason +given why the raven is particularly mentioned as an object of +the care of Providence, is, because by her clamorous and importunate +voice, she particularly seems always calling upon +it; thence [Greek: korassô, a korax], Ælian. l. ii. c. 48, is "to ask +earnestly." And since there were ravens on the bank of the +Nile more clamorous than the rest of that species, those probably +are meant in that place.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_30" name="note_30" href="#noteref_30">30.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There are many instances of this bird's stupidity: let two +suffice. First, it covers its head in the reeds, and thinks +itself all out of sight,</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 10.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Stat lumine clauso</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Ridendum revoluta caput, creditque latere</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Quæ non ipsa videt.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Claud.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Secondly, they that go in pursuit of them, draw the skin of +an ostrich's neck on one hand, which proves a sufficient lure +to take them with the other.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They have so little brain, that Heliogabalus had six hundred +heads for his supper.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here we may observe, that our judicious as well as sublime +author, just touches the great points of distinction in each +creature, and then hastens to another. A description is exact +when you cannot add, but what is common to another thing; +nor withdraw, but something peculiarly belonging to the thing +described. A likeness is lost in too much description, as a +meaning often in too much illustration.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_31" name="note_31" href="#noteref_31">31.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here is marked another peculiar quality of this creature, +which neither flies nor runs directly, but has a motion composed +of both, and, using its wings as sails, makes great +speed.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Vasta velut Libyæ venantûm vocibus ales</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Cum premitur, calidas cursu transmittit arenas,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Inque modum veli sinuatis flamine pennis</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Pulverulenta volat.</span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Claud. in Eutr.</span></p> +</div></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_32" name="note_32" href="#noteref_32">32.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Xenophon says, Cyrus had horses that could overtake the +goat and the wild ass; but none that could reach this creature. +A thousand golden ducats, or a hundred camels, was the +stated price of a horse that could equal their speed.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_33" name="note_33" href="#noteref_33">33.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though this bird is but just mentioned in my author, I +could not forbear going a little farther, and spreading those +beautiful plumes (which are there shut up) in half a dozen +lines. The circumstance I have marked of his opening his +plumes to the sun is true. Expandit colores adverso maxime +sole, quia sic fulgentius radiant. Plin. l. x. c. 20.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_34" name="note_34" href="#noteref_34">34.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thyanus (de Re Accip.) mentions a hawk that flew +from Paris to London in a night.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And the Egyptians, in regard to its swiftness, made it their +symbol for the wind; for which reason we may suppose the +hawk, as well as the crow above, to have been a bird of note +in Egypt.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_35" name="note_35" href="#noteref_35">35.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The eagle is said to be of so acute a sight, that when she +is so high in air that man cannot see her, she can discern the +smallest fish under water. My author accurately understood +the nature of the creatures he describes, and seems to have +been a naturalist as well as a poet, which the next note will +confirm.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_36" name="note_36" href="#noteref_36">36.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The meaning of this question is, Knowest thou the time +and circumstances of their bringing forth? For to know the +time only was easy, and had nothing extraordinary in it; but +the circumstances had something peculiarly expressive of God's +providence, which makes the question proper in this place. +Pliny observes, that the hind with young is by instinct directed +to a certain herb called Seselis, which facilitates the birth. +Thunder also (which looks like the more immediate hand of +Providence) has the same effect. Ps. xxix. In so early an +age to observe these things, may style our author a naturalist.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_37" name="note_37" href="#noteref_37">37.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pursuing their prey by night is true of most wild beasts, +particularly the lion. Ps. cvi. 20. The Arabians have one +among their five hundred names for the lion, which signifies +"the hunter by moonshine."</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_38" name="note_38" href="#noteref_38">38.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cephissi glaciale caput, quo suetus anhelam</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Ferre sitim Python, amnemque avertere ponto.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Stat. Theb. vii. 349.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Qui spiris tegeret montes, hauriret hiatu</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Flumina, &c. Claud. Pref. in Ruf.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Let not then this hyperbole seem too much for an eastern poet, +though some commentators of name strain hard in this place +for a new construction, through fear of it.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_39" name="note_39" href="#noteref_39">39.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The taking the crocodile is most difficult. Diodorus +says, they are not to be taken but by iron nets. When Augustus +conquered Egypt, he struck a medal, the impress of +which was a crocodile chained to a palm-tree, with this inscription, +Nemo antea religavit.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_40" name="note_40" href="#noteref_40">40.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This alludes to a custom of this creature, which is, when +sated with fish, to come ashore and sleep among the reeds.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_41" name="note_41" href="#noteref_41">41.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The crocodile's mouth is exceeding wide. When he +gapes, says Pliny, sic totum os. Martial says to his old +woman,</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Cum comparata rictibus tuis ora</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Niliacus habet crocodilus angusta.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So that the expression there is barely just.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_42" name="note_42" href="#noteref_42">42.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This too is nearer the truth than at first view may be +imagined. The crocodile, say the naturalists, lying long under +water, and being there forced to hold its breath, when +it emerges, the breath long represt is hot, and bursts out so +violently, that it resembles fire and smoke. The horse suppresses +not his breath by any means so long, neither is he so +fierce and animated; yet the most correct of poets ventures +to use the same metaphor concerning him:</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Collectumque premens volvit sub naribus ignem.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By this and the foregoing note I would caution against a false +opinion of the eastern boldness, from passages in them ill understood.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_43" name="note_43" href="#noteref_43">43.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning." I think +this gives us as great an image of the thing it would express +as can enter the thought of man. It is not improbable that +the Egyptians stole their hieroglyphic for the morning, which +is the crocodile's eye, from this passage, though no commentator, +I have seen, mentions it. It is easy to conceive how the +Egyptians should be both readers and admirers of the writings +of Moses, whom I suppose the author of this poem.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I have observed already that three or four of the creatures +here described are Egyptian; the two last are notoriously so, +they are the river-horse and the crocodile, those celebrated inhabitants +of the Nile; and on these two it is that our author +chiefly dwells. It would have been expected from an author +more remote from that river than Moses, in a catalogue of +creatures produced to magnify their Creator, to have dwelt on +the two largest works of his hand, viz. the elephant and the +whale. This is so natural an expectation, that some commentators +have rendered behemoth and leviathan, the elephant +and whale, though the descriptions in our author will not +admit of it; but Moses being, as we may well suppose, under +an immediate terror of the hippopotamus and crocodile, from +their daily mischiefs and ravages around him, it is very accountable +why he should permit them to take place.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_44" name="note_44" href="#noteref_44">44.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though the report was propagated without the least truth, +it may be sufficient ground to justify a poetical fancy's enlarging +on it.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_45" name="note_45" href="#noteref_45">45.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lord Aubrey Beauclerk was the eighth son of the Duke +of St. Albans, who was one of the sons of King Charles the +Second. He was born in the year 1711; and, being regularly +bred to the sea service, in 1731 he was appointed to the command +of his majesty's ship the Ludlow Castle; and he commanded +the Prince Frederick at the attack of the harbour of +Carthagena, March 24, 1741. This young nobleman was one +of the most promising commanders in the king's service. +When on the desperate attack of the castle of Bocca Chica, at +the entrance of the said harbour, he lost his life, both his legs +being first shot off. The prose part of the inscription on his +monument was the production of Mrs. Mary Jones of Oxford; +who also wrote a poem on his death, printed in her Miscellanies, +8vo, 1752.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">R.</span></span></p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_46" name="note_46" href="#noteref_46">46.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lord Sommers procured a pension for Mr. Addison, which +enabled him to prosecute his travels.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">R.</span></span></p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_47" name="note_47" href="#noteref_47">47.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The publication of his Works.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_48" name="note_48" href="#noteref_48">48.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The invader affects the character of Charles XII. of +Sweden.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_49" name="note_49" href="#noteref_49">49.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mrs. M——.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_50" name="note_50" href="#noteref_50">50.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Whilst the author was writing this, he received the news +of Mr. Samuel Richardson's death, who was then printing the +former part of the poem.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_51" name="note_51" href="#noteref_51">51.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mrs. Montague.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_52" name="note_52" href="#noteref_52">52.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mrs. Montague.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_53" name="note_53" href="#noteref_53">53.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mrs. Montague. Mrs Carter.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_54" name="note_54" href="#noteref_54">54.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Candide.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_55" name="note_55" href="#noteref_55">55.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Second Part.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_56" name="note_56" href="#noteref_56">56.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ephes. vi. 17.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_57" name="note_57" href="#noteref_57">57.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Which his romance ridicules.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_58" name="note_58" href="#noteref_58">58.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Isaiah lvii. 15.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_59" name="note_59" href="#noteref_59">59.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Letter to Lord Lyttelton.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_60" name="note_60" href="#noteref_60">60.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alluding to Prussia.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_61" name="note_61" href="#noteref_61">61.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Knight of the Bath, and then of the Garter.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_62" name="note_62" href="#noteref_62">62.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An ancestor of the Duke of Shrewsbury, who conquered +France, drawn by Shakespeare.—Young.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_63" name="note_63" href="#noteref_63">63.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See his lordship's tragedy entitled "Heroic Love." +—Young.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_64" name="note_64" href="#noteref_64">64.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">His lordship's nephew, who took orders.—Young.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_65" name="note_65" href="#noteref_65">65.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The author here bewails that most ingenious gentleman, +Mr. William Harrison, fellow of New-College, Oxon.—Young. +[See a more particular account of him in the Supplement to +Swift.]</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_66" name="note_66" href="#noteref_66">66.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">His late majesty's benefaction for modern languages.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_67" name="note_67" href="#noteref_67">67.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Boileau.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_68" name="note_68" href="#noteref_68">68.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A Poetical Epistle from the late Lord Melcombe to the +Earl of Bute, with corrections by the author of the Night +Thoughts, was published in 4to, 1776.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_69" name="note_69" href="#noteref_69">69.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See Mr. Cust's Life of Young.</p></dd></dl> + </div> + + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; 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