THE	WORKS	OF	DRYDEN.
	And	in	his	brcaft	rccciv'd	th'	invenoniM	dart,
	A	tickling	pain	that	pleas'd	amid	the	fmart.
	But,	confciotts	of	her	form,	with	quick	diftruft
	She	faw	his	fparkling	eyes,	and	fear'd	his	brutal
	This	to	prevent,	flie	wak'd	her	fleepy	crew,	[luft:
	And,	rifing	hafty,	took	a	fhort	adieu.
	Then	Cymon	firft	his	ruftic	voice	cflay'd,
	With	proffer'd	fervice	to	the	parting	maid
	To	fee	her	fafe	;	his	liand	(he	long	deny'd,
	But	took	at	length,	afham'd	of	fuch	a	guide.
	So	Cymon	led	her	home,	and	leaving	there,
	No	more	would	to	his	country	clowns	repair,
	But	fought	his	father's	houfe	with	better	mind,
	Refufing	in	the	farm	to	be	confin'd.
	The	lather	wonder'	d	at	the	fon's	return,
	And	knew	not	whether	to	rejoice	or	mourn	;
	But	doubtfully	receiv'd,	expecting	ftill
	To	learn	the	fecret	caufcs	of	his	alterM	will.
	Nr.r	was	he	long	delay'd	:	the	firfl	requeft
	He	made,	was	like	his	brothers	to	be	drefs'd,
	And,	as	his	birth	requir'ti,	above	the	reft.
	With	eafe	his	fuit	Was	granted	by	his	fire,
	Diflinguifhing	his	heir	by	rich	attire,
	His	body	thus	adorn'd,	he	.next	defign'd
	With"	liberal	arts	to	cultivate	his	mind	:
	He	fought	a	tutor	of	his	own	accord,
	And	ftudy'd	leffnns	he	>r'd.
	Thus	the	man-child	advancjd,	and	learn'd	fo
	faft,
	That	in	fhort	feme	his'	equals	he	.fWpak'd	:
	His	brutal	manners	from	his	brcaft	exil'd,
	His	mien	he	fafhion'd,	andJ^is	tongue	he	fil'd	;
	In	every	exercifc	of	all	admir'cl,
	He	feem'd,	nor	only	fecm'd,	but	was	infpir'd	:
	Infpir'd	by	love,	whofe	buu'nefs	is	to	pleafe	;
	He	rode,	he	fenc'd,	he	mov'd	with	graceful	eafe,
	More	fam'd	for	fenfe,	for	courtly	carriage	-more,
	Than	for	his	brutal	folly	known	before.
	What	then	of	alter'd	Cymon	fhall	we	fay,
	JBut	that	the	fire	which	chok'd	in	afties	lay.
	A	load	too	heavy	fo;-	his	foul	to	move,	[love;
	Was	upward	blown	below,	and	brufh'd	away	by
	I.ove	made	an	aftive	progrcfs	through	his	mind,
	The	dufky	parts	he	char'd,	the	grofs	refin'd,
	The	drowfjr	wak'd;	and	as	he	went	impreft'd
	The	Maker's	image	on	the	human	breaft.
	Thus	was	the	man	amended	by	defire,
	And	though	he	lov'd	perhaps	with	too	much	fire,
	His	father	all	his	faults	with	reafon	fcann*d,
	And	lik'd	an	error	of	the	better	hand;
	Excus'd	the	excefs	of	paffion	in	his	mind,
	By	flames	too	fierce,	perhaps	too	much	refin'd	:
	So	Cymon,	fince	his	fire	indulg'd	his	will,
	Impetuous	lov'd,	and	would	be	Cymon	ftill:
	6alefu>	he	difown'd,	and	chofc	to	bear
	The	name	of	fuol	confirm'd,	and	bifhop'd	br
	e	fair.
	To	Cipfcua	by	his	friends	his	fuit	he	mov'd,
	Cipfcus	the	father	of	the	fair	he	lov'd	:
	But	hu	*as	pre-engag'd	by	former	ties,
	While	Cymon	was	endeavouring	to	be	wife	:
	And	Iphigene,	oblig'd	by	former	vow,
	Had	aivcu	her	faith	to	wed	a	foreign	fpoufe	:
	Her	fire	and	fhe	to	Rhodian	Pafithond,
	Though	both	repenting,	were	by	promife	bound	^
	Nor	could	retract	;	and	thus,	as	fate	decreed,
	Though	better	lov'd,	he	fpoke	too	late	to	fpeed.
	The	doom	was	pad,	the	fhip	already	fent
	Did	all	his	tardy	diligence	prevent	:
	Sigh'd	to	herfclf	the	fair	unhappy	maid,
	While	ftormy	Cymon	thus	in	fecret	faid	:
	The	time	is	come	for	Iphigene	to	find
	The	miracle	(he	wrought	upon	my	mind	:
	Her	charms	have	made	me	man,	her	ravifh'd	lore
	In	rank	fhall	place	me	with	the	blefs'd	above.
	For	mine	by	love,	by	force	fhe	(hall	be	mine,
	Or	death,	if	force	(hould	fail,	fhall	finifh	my	defign,
	RefoJVd	he	laid	;	and	rigg'd	with	fpeedy	care
	A	veflel	ftroog,	and	well	equipp'd	for	war.
	The	fecret	fhip	with	chofen	friends	he	ftor'd	;
	And,	bent	to	die	or	conquer,	went	aboard.
	Ambufh'd	he	lay	behind	the	Cyprian	fhore,
	Waiting	the	fail	that	all	his	wifhes	bore	;
	Nor	long	expected,	for	the	following	tide
	Sent	out	the	hoftile	fhip	and	beauteous	bride.
	To	Rhodes	the	rival	bark	directly	fteer'd,
	When	Cymon	fudderi	at	her	back	appear	'd,
	And	ftopp'd	her	flight	;	then,	(landing	on	his	prow,
	In	haughty	terms	'he	thus	defy'd	the	foe	;
	Or	ftrike	your	fails	at	fummons,	or	prepare
	To	prove	the	laft	extremities	of	war.
	Thus	warn'd,	the	Rhodiansfor	the	fight	provide;"}
	Already	were	the	veffels	fide	by	fide,	f
	Thefe	obftinate	to	fave,	and	thofc	to	feize	the	t
	bride.	J
	But	Cymon	foon	his	crooked	grapples	caft,	"1
	Which	with	tenacious	hold	his	foes	embrac'd,	/
	And,arm'd	with	fword	and	ihield,	amid	the	prefs	f
	he	pafs'd.	J
	Fierce	was	the	fight,	but,	haftening	to	his	prey,
	By	Force	the	furious	lover	freed	his	way	:
	Himfelf	alone	difpers'd	the	Rhodian	crew,
	The	weak	difdain'd,	the	valant	overthrew	;
	Cheap	conqueft	for	his	following	friends	re-
	rhain'd,
	He	reap'd	the	field,	and	they	but	only	glcan'd.
	His	victory	confeft'd,	the	foes	retreat,
	And	caft	the	weapons	at	the	victor's	feet.
	Whom	thus	he	checr'd	:	O	Rhodian	youth,
	For	love	alone,	nor	other	booty	fought	:	[fought
	Your	lives	are	fafe	;	your	veffel	I	refign	;.
	Yours	be	your	own,	reftoring	what	is	mine	:
	In	Iphigene	I	claim	my	rightful	due,
	Robb'd	by	my	rival,	and	detain'd	by	you	:
	Your	Pafimond	a	lawlcfs	bargain	drove,
	The	parent	could	hot	fell	the	daughter's	love	;
	Or,	iif	he	could,	my	love	difdains	the	laws,
	And	like	a	king	by	conqueft	gains	his	caufe	:
	Where	arms	take	place,	all	other	pleas	are	vain,
	Love	taught	me	force,	and	force	fhall	love	main
	tain,
	You,	what	by	ftrength	you	could	not	keep,	releafc
	And	at	an	eafy	ranfom	by	your	peace.
	fear	on	the	conquer'd	fide	foori	fign'd	th'	ac
	cord,
	And	Iphigene	to	Cymon	was	reftor'd	:
	While	to	his	arms	the	blufhing	bride	he	took	;
	To	fecming	fadnefs	fhe	compos'd	her	look	;
	As	if	by	force	fubjccted	to	his	will,
	Though	pleas'd,	diffemblifig,	and	a	woman	ftilfc


THE	WORKS	OF	DRYDEN.
	Omufda	call'd,	to	whom	by	promife	ty'd,
	A	Rhodian	beauty	was	the	deftin'd	bride.
	Caffandra	was	her	name,	above^e	reft
	Renown'd	for	birth,	with	forrtirie	amply	blefs'd.
	Lyfimachus,	who	rul'd	the	RJiodian	ftatc,
	Was	then	by	choice	their	annual	magiftrate	:
	He	lov'd	Caflandra	too	with	equal	fire,
	But	fortune	had	not	iavour'd	his	defire	;
	Crofs'd	by	her	friends,	by	her	not	difapprov'd.
	Nor	yet	prcferr'd,	or	like	Ormifda	lov'd	;
	So	flood	th'	affair	:	fome	little	hope	remain'H,
	That,	fhould	his	rival	chance	to	lofe,	he	gain'd.
	Mean	time	young	Pafimond	his	marriage	prefs'd,
	Ordain'd	the	nuptial	day,	prepar'd	the	feaft	;
	And	frugally	relolv'd	(the	charge	to	fhun,	*)
	"Which	would	be	double	fhould	he	wed	alone)	>
	To	join	his	brother's	bridal	with	his	own.	j
	Lyfimachus,	opprefs'd	with	mortal	grief,
	Rcceiv'd	the	hews,	and	ftudy'd	quick	relief	:
	The	fatal	day	approach'd	;	if	force	were	us'd,
	The	magiftrate	his	public	truft	abus'd	;
	To	juftice	liable,	as	law	requir'd;
	For,	when	his	office	ceas'd,	his	power	expir'd	:
	While	power	remain'd,	the	means	were	in	his
	hand
	By	force	to	feize,	and	then	forfake	the	land	:
	Betwixt	extremes	he	knew	not	how	to	move,
	A	flave	to	fame,	but,	more	a	flave	to	love	:
	Reftraining	others,	yet	himfelf	not	free,
	Made	impotent	by	power,	debas'd	by	dignity.
	Both	fides	he	weigh'd	:	but,	after	much	debate,
	The	man	prevail'd	above	the	magiftrate.
	Love	never	fails	to	mafter	what	he	finds,
	But	works	a	different	way	in	different	minds,
	The	fool	enlightens,	and	the	wife	he	blinds.
	This	youth,	propofing	to	poflefs	and	'fcape,
	Began	in	murder,	to	conclude	in	rape	:
	Unprais'd	by	me,	though	heaven	fometimes	may
	An	impious	act	with	undeferv'd	fucccfs	;	[blefs
	The	great	it	feems	are	privileg'd	alone
	To	punifh	all	injuftice	but	their	own.
	But	here	I	flop',	not	daring	to	proceed,
	Yet	blufh	to	flatter	an	unrighteous	deed	:
	For	crimes	are	but	permitted,	not	decreed.
	Refolv'd	on	force,	his	wit	the	prsetor	bent,
	To	find	the	means	that	might	fecure	th'	event	;
	Nor	long	he	labour'd,	for	his	lucky	thought
	In	captive	Cymon	found	the	friend	he	fought	;
	Th*	example	pleas'd	:	the	caufe	and	crime	the
	An	in	jur'd	lover,	and	a	ra	vifh'd	dame,	[fame	;
	How	much	he	durft	he	knew	by	what	he	dar'd,"}
	The	lefs	he	had	to	lofe,	the	lefs	he	car'd,	/
	To	manage	loathfome	life	when	love	was	the	f
	reward.	j
	This	pondcr'd	well,	and	ilx'd	on	his	intent,
	In	depth	of	night	he	for	the	prifuner	fent	;
	In	fecret	fent,	the	public	view	to	fhun,
	Then	with	a	fober	fmile	he	thus	begun.
	The	powers	above,	who	bounteoufly	beftow
	Their	gifts	and	graces	on	mankind	below,
	Yet	prove	our	merit	firft,	nor	blindly	give
	To	fuch	as	are	not	worthy	to	receive	:
	For	valour	and	for	virtue	they	provide
	Their	due	rcwaid,	but	firft	they	muft	be	try'd	;
	Thefe	fruitful	feeds	within	your	mind	they	fow'd	;
	'Twas	your's	t*	improve	the	talent	they	beftow'd	:
	They	gave	you	to	be	born	of	noble	kind,
	They	gave	you	love	to	lighten	up	your	mind,
	And	purge	the	groffcr	parts;	they	gave	you	care
	To	pleafe,	and	courage	to	deferve	the	fair.
	Thus	far	they	try'd	you,	and	by	proof	they	found
	The	grain	intrufted	in	a	grateful	ground	:
	But	ftill	the	great	experiment	remaind,
	They	fuffer'd	you	to	lofe	the	prize	you	gain'd	;
	That	you	might	learn	the	gift	was	theirs	alone	:
	And	when	reftor'd,	to	them	the	bleffing	own.
	Reftor'd	it	foon	will	be	;	the	means	prepar'd,
	The	difficulty	fmooth'd,	the	danger	fhar'd	:
	Be	but	yourfelf,	the	care	to	me	refign,
	Then	Iphigene	is	your's,	Caflandra	mine.
	Your	rival	Pafimond	purfues	your	life,
	Impatient	to	revenge	his	ravifh'd	wife,
	But	yet	not	his	;	to-morrow	is	behind,
	And	love	our	fortunes	in	one	band	has	join'd	:
	T^o	brothers	arc	our	fees,	Ormifda	mine,
	As	much	declar'd	as	Pafimond	is	thine	:
	To-morrow	muft	their	common	vows	be	ty'd	:
	With	love	to	friend,	and	fortune	for	our	guide,
	Let	both	refolve	to	die,	or	each	redeem	a	bride.
	Right	I	have	none,	nor	haft	thou	much	to	plead;
	'Tis	force,	when	done,	muft	juftify	the	deed	:
	Our	tafk	performed,	we	next	prepare	for	flight	:
	And	let	the	lofers	talk	in	vain	of	right	:
	We	with	the	fair	will	fail	before	the	wind,
	If	they	are	griev'd,	I	leave	the	laws	behind.
	Speak	thy	refolves	;	if	now	thy	courage	droop,
	Defpair	in	prifon,	and	abandon	hope	:
	But	if	thou	dar'ft	in	arms	thy	love	regain
	(For	liberty	without	thy	love	were	vain);
	Then	fecond	my	defign	to	fcize	the	prey,
	Or	lead	to	fecond	rape,	for	well	thou	know'ft
	the	way.
	Said	Cymon	overjoy	'd,	dd	thou	propofe
	The	means	to	fight,	and	only	fhew	the	foes;
	For	from	the	firft,	when	love	had	fir'd	my	mind,
	Refolv'd	I	left	the	care	of	life	behind.
	To	this	the	bold	Lyfimachus	reply'd,
	Let	heaven	be	neutre,	and	the	fword	decide;
	The	fpoufals	are	prepar'd,	already	play
	The	minftrels,	and	provoke	the	tardy	day	:
	By	this	the	brides	are	wak'd,	their	grooms	are
	drefs'd	;
	All	Rhodes	is	fummon'd	to	the	nuptial	feaft
	All	but	myfelf	the	fole	unbidden	gueft.
	Unbidden	though	I	am,	I	will	be	there,
	And	join'd	by	thee,	intend	to	joy	the	fair.
	Now	hear	the	reft	;	when	day	refigns	the	light.
	And	cheerful	torches	gild	the	jolly	night,
	Be	ready	at	my	call,	my	chofen	few
	With	arms	adminifter'd	fhall	aid	thy	crew.
	Then	entering	unexpected	will	we	feize
	Our	deftin'd	prer,	from	men	diffolv'd	in	cafe;
	By	wine	difablea,	unprepar'd	for	fight	:
	And	haftening	to	the	feas,	Inborn	our	flight	:
	The	feas	are	ours,	for	I	command	the	fort,
	A	fhip	well-mann'd	expc&s	us	in	the	port	:
	If	they,	or	if	their	friends,	the	prize	cynteft,
	Death	fhaii	attend	the	n\w	who	dares	reftiV
	are*Y
	'	S


THE	WORKS	OF	DRY	DEN.
	I
	Or,	differing	not	their	yellow	kcards	to	rear,
	He	tramples	d.;wn	the	fpikes,	and	intercepts	the
	year.
	In	vain	the	barns	expect	their	promis'd	load	;
	Nor	barns	at	home,	nor	reeks	are	heap'd	abroad	:
	In	vain	the	hinds	the	threftung-floor	prepare,
	.And	fxercife	their	flails	in	empty	air.
	With	olives,	ever	green,	the	ground	is	ftrew'd	;
	And	grapes,	ungather'd,	Ihed	their	generous
	blood.
	Amid	the	fold	he	rage*,	nor	the	flieep
	Their	fhepherds,	nor	the	grooms	their	bulli	can
	keep.
	From	fields	to	walls	the	frighted	rabble	run,
	Nor	think	themfclves	fecure	within	the	town	:
	Till	Meleagrus,	and	his	chofen	crew,
	Contemn	the	danger,	and	the	praife	purfue.
	Fair	JLeda's	twins,	(in	time	to	ftars	decreed)
	One	fought	on	foot,	one	curb'd	the	fiery	deed	;
	Then	iffu'd	forth	fam'd	Jafon	after	thefe,
	Who	mann'd	the	foremoft	fhip	that	fail'd	the	feas;
	Then	Thefeus	join'd	with	bold	Pirithous	came	:
	A	fingle	concord	in	a	double	name	:
	The	Theftian	fons,	Idas	who	fwiftly	ran,
	And	Cencus,	once	a	woman,	now	a	man.
	Lynccus,	with	eagle's	eyes	and	lion's	heart	;
	Leueippus,	with	his	never-erring	dart;
	Acaftus,	Phileus,	Phsenix,	Telamon,
	Echion,	Lelex,	and	Eurytion,
	Achilles*	father,	and	great	Phocus'	fon	;
	Dryas	the	fierce,	and	Hippafus	the	ftrong	;
	With	twice	old	lolas,	and	Neftor	then	but	young.
	Laertes	active,	and	Ancaeus	bold	;
	Mopfus	the	fage,	who	future	things	foretold;
	And	t'other	feer	yet	by	his	wi.t	unfold.
	A	thoufand	others	of	immortal	fame	;
	Among	the	reft	fair	Aralanta	came,
	Gftce	of	the	woods	;	a	diamond	buckle	bound
	Her	vcft	behind,	that	elfc	had	flow'd	upon	the
	ground,
	And	fhew'd	her	bufkin'd	legs	;	her	head	was	bare,
	But	for	her	native	ornament	of	hair	;
	Which	in	a	fimple	knot	was	ty'd	above,
	Sweet	negligence,	unheeded	bait	of	love	!
	Her	founding	quiver	on	her	(houlder	ty'd,
	One	hand	a	dart,	and	one	a	bow	fupply'd.
	.Such	was	her	face,	as	in	a	nymph	difplay'd	")
	A	fair	fierce	hoy,	or	iu	a	boy	betray'd	C
	The	hlufhiug	beauties	of	a	mod-	It	maid.	j
	The	Caledonian	chief	at	once	the	dame
	Heheld,	at	once	his	heart	receiv'd	the	flame,
	With	heavens	averfe.	O	happy	youth,	he	cry'd	;
	>or	whom	thy	fates	referve	fo	fair	a	bride	!
	He	figh'd,	and	had	no	leifpre	more	to	fay	:
	His	honour	call'd	his	eyes	another	way,
	And	forc'd	him	to	purfue	the	now	neglected
	prey.
	There	ftood	a	forcft	on	the	mountain's	brow,
	Which	over-look'd	the	(haded	plains	below,
	No	founding	ax	prefum'd	thofe	trees	to	bite	;
	Coeval	with	the	world,	a	venerable	fight.
	The	heroes	there	arrived,	fome	fpread	around	-)
	The	toils,	(ome	learch	the	footftcps	on	the/
	ground,	r
	Come	f	jpm	the	chains	the	faithful	dogs	unbound.	J
	Of	action	eager,	and	intent	on	thoughf,
	The	chiefs	their	honourable	danger	fought	:
	A	valley	ftood	below;	the	common	drain
	Of	waters	from	above,	and	falling	rain	:
	The	bottom	was	a	rooift	and	marfhy	ground,
	Whofe	edges	were	with	bending	ofiers	crown'd	;
	The	knotty	bulrufh	next	in	order	ftood,
	And	all	within	of	reeds	a	trembling	wood.
	From	hence	the	boar	was	rous'd,	and	fprui
	amain,
	Like	lightning	fuddsn	on	the	warrior	train	;
	Beats	dmvn	the	trees	before	him,	(hakes	the")
	ground,
	The	foreft	echoes	to	the	crackling	found	:	t"
	Shout	the	fierce	youth,	and	clamours	ring	around,	j
	All	ftood	with	their	protended	fpears	prepar'd,
	With	broad	fteel	heads	the	brandilVd	wear
	glar'd.
	The	bead	impetuous	with	his	tufks	afide
	Deals	glancing	wounds;	the	fearful	dogs	divide:
	All	fpend	their	mouth	aloft,	but	none	abide.
	Echion	threw	the	firft,	but	mifc'd	his	mark,
	And	(luck	his	boar-fpear	on	a	maple's	bark.
	Then	Jafon	;	and	his	javelin	feem'd	to	take,
	But	fail'd	with	over-fwrce,	and	whizz'd	above
	back.
	Mopfus	was	next	;	but	ere	he	threw,	addrefs'd
	To	Phoebus	thus	:	O	patron,	help	thy	prieft.
	If	I	adore,	and	ever	have	ador'd
	Thy	power	divine,	thy	prefent	aid	afford	;
	That	I	may	reach	the	beaft.	The	God	allow'd
	His	prayer,	and,	fmiling,	gave	him	what	he	could	;
	He	reachM	the	favage,	b.ut	no	blood	he	drew,
	Dian	unarm'	d	the	javelin	as	it	flew.
	This	chaff	'd	the	boar,	his	noftrils	flames	exj
	And	his	red	eye-balls	roll	with	living	fire.
	Whirl	'd	from	a	fling,	or	from	an	engine	thrown,
	Amidfl	the	foes,	fo	flies	a	mighty	ftone,
	As	flew	the	beaft	;	the	left	wing	put	to	flight,
	The	chiefs	o*erborn,	he	rufhes	on	the	right.
	Empalamos	and	Pelagon	he	laid
	In	duft,	and	next	to	death,	but	for	their	fellows	;
	Onefimus	far'd	worfe,	prepar'd	to	fly	;
	The	fatal	fang	drove	deep	within	his	thigh,
	And	cut	the	nerves;	the	nerves	no	more	luftain
	The	bulk;	the	bulk	unprop'd	falls	headlong
	the	plain.
	Neftor	had	fail'd	the	fall	of	Troy	to	fee,
	But,	leaning	on	his	lance,	he	vaulted	on	a	tree	;
	Then,	gathering	up	his	feet,	look'd	down	wit
	fear,
	And	thought	his	monftrous	foe	was	ftill	too	near.
	Againft	a	ftump	his	tufk	the	monfter	grinds,
	And	in	the	fharpen'd	edge	new	vigour	finds	;
	Then,trufting	to	his	arms,	young	Othrys	found,
	And	ranch'd	his	hips	with	one	continu'd	wound.)
	Now	Leda's	twins,	the	future	ftars,	appear	:
	White	wtre	their	habits,	white	their	horfes	wercj
	Confpicuous	both,	and	both	in	act	to	throw,
	Their	trembling	lances	brandifh'd	at	the	foe	:
	Nor	had	they	mifs'd	;	but	he	to	thickets	fled,
	Conccal'd	from	aiming	fpears,	not	pervious	to
	fteed.
	But	Telamon	rufh'd	in,	and	happ'd	*~	"--t
	A	fifing	root,	that	held	his	fallen''.


TRANSLATIONS	FROM	OVID.
	So	down	he	fell,	whom,	fi	rawling	on	the	ground,
	His	brother	from	the	wooden	gyves	unbound.
	Meantime	the	virgin-huntrels	was	not	flow
	T'	expel	the	(haft	from	her	contracted	bow	:
	Beneath	his	ear	the	faften'd	arrow	ftood,
	And	from	the	wound	appear'd	the	trickling	blcod.
	She	blufh'd	for	joy	:	But	Meleagrus	rais'd
	His	voice	with	loud	applauie,	and	the	fair	archer
	prais'd.
	He	was	the	firft	to	fee,	and	firft	to	fhow
	His	friends	the	marks	of	the	fuccefsful	blow.
	Nor	(hall	thy	valour	want	the	praifes	due,
	He	faid	;	a	virtuous	envy	feiz'd	the	crew.
	They	fhout	;	the	fhouting	animates	their	hearts,
	And	all	at	once	employ	their	thronging	dans;
	But,	out	of	order	thrown,	in	air	they	join;
	And	multitude	makes	fruftrate	the	dcfi^n.
	With	both	his	hands	the	proud	Ancaeub	takes,
	And	flourifhes	his	double-biting	ax	:
	Then,	forward	to	his	fate,	he	took	a	ftride
	Before	the	reft,	and	to	his	fellows	cry'd,
	Give	place,	and	mark	the	difference,	if	you	cart,
	Between	a	woman-	warrior	and	a	man	;
	The	boar	is	doom'd	;	nor,	though	Diana	lend
	Her	aid,	Diana	can	her	beaft	defend.
	Thus	boafted	he	;	then	ftretch'd,	on	tiptoe	ftood,
	Secure	to	make	his	empty	promife	good.
	But	the	more	wary	beaft	prevents	the	blow,
	And	upward	rips	the	groin	of	his	audacious	foe.
	Anczus	falls	;	his	bowels	from	the	wound
	Rufh	out,	and	clotted	blood	diftains	the	ground.
	Pirithous,	no	fmall	portion	of	the	war,
	Prefs'd	on,	and	(hook	his	lance	:	to	whom	from
	far,
	Thus	Thefeus	cry'd	:	O	flay,	my	better	part,
	My	more	than	miftrefs	;	of	my	heart,	the	heart.
	The	ftrong	may	fight	aloof	:	Ancaeus	try'd
	His	force	too	near,	and	by	prefuming	dy'd	:
	He	faid,	and	while	he	fpake,	his	javelin	threw	;
	Hiding	in	air	th'	unerring	weapon	flew	;
	But	on	an	arm	of	oak,	that	ftood	betwixt
	The	markfman	and	the	mark,	his	lance	he	fixt.
	Once	more	bold	Jafoa	threw,	but	fail'd	to'
	wound
	The	boar,	and	flew	an	undeferving	hound	;
	And	through	the	dog	the	dart	was	nail'd	to
	ground.
	Two	fpears	from	Meleager	T	s	hand	were	fent,
	With	equal	force,	but	various	in	th'	event	:
	The	firft	was	fix'd	in	earth,	the	fecond	ftood
	On	the	boar's	briftled	back,	and	deeply	drank	his
	blood.
	Now	while	the	tortur'd	favage	turns	around,
	And	flingsabout	his	foam,	impatient	of	the	wound,
	The	wound's	great	author	clofc	at	hand	pro
	vokes
	His	rage,	and	plies	him	with	redoubled	ftrokes	;
	Wheels	as	he	wheels	;	and	with	his	pointed	dart
	Explores	the	neareft	paflage	to	his	heart.
	Quick	and	more	quick	he	fpins-	in	giddy	gires,
	Then	falls,	and	in	much	foam	his	foul	expires.
	This	ad	with	fhouts	heaven	high	the	friendly
	band
	Applaud,,	acd	ft.riJa.-in	iheir*	the	vidor's	hand.
	Then	all	approach	the	fhin	with	vaft	furprife,
	Admire	-n	what	a	breadth	of	earth	he	hes
	And,	fcarce	fecure,	reach	out	their	fpeara	afar,
	And	blood	their	points,	to	prove	their	partncrfhip
	of	war.
	But	he,	the	conquering	chief,	his	foot	impref&'d
	On	the	ftrong	neck	of	that	deftruclive	beaft	;
	And	f	gazing	on	the	nymph	with	ardent	eyes,
	Accept,	(aid	he,	fair	Nonucrine,	my	prize,
	And,	though	inferior,	fuffer	me	to	join
	My	labours,	and	my	part	of	praife,	with	thine	;
	At	this	pitfents	her	with	the	tufky	head
	And	chine,	with	nfing	bridles	roughly	fpread.
	Glad,	Ihe	received	the	gift	;	and	feem'd	to	take
	With	double	pleafure,	for	the	giver's	fake.
	The	reft	were	leiz'd	with	fullen	difcontent,
	And	a	deaf	murmur	through	the	fquadron	went	:
	All	envy'd;	but	the	Theftyan	brethren	fhow'd
	The	leaft	refpeft,	and	thus	they	vent	their	fpleea
	aloud	:
	Lay	down	thofe	honour'd	fpoils,	nor	think	to	(hare,
	Weak	woman	as	thou	art,	the	prize	of	war	:
	Ours	is	the	title,	thine	a	foreign	claim,
	Since	Meleagrus	from	our	lineage	came.
	Truft	not	thy	beauty	;	but	reftore	the	prize,
	Which	he,	befotted"	on	that	face	and	eye,
	Would	rend	from	us.	At	this,	inflam'd	with	fpir%
	From	her	they	fnatch'd	the	gift,	from	him	the
	giver's	right.
	But	foon	th'	impatient	prince	his	fauchion	drew	r
	And	cry'd,	Ye	robbers	of	another's	due,
	Now	learn	the	difference,	at	your	proper	coft,
	Betwixt	true	valour,	and	an	empty	boaft.
	At	this	advanc'd,	and	fudden	as	the	word,
	In	proud	Plexippus'	bofom	plungM	the	fword	:
	Toxeus	amaz'd,	and	with	amazement	flow,
	Or	to'revenge,	or	ward	the	coming	blow,
	Stood	doubting	;	and,	while	doubting	thus	he
	ftood,
	Receiv'd	the	fteel	bath'd	in	his	brother's	blood.
	Pleased	with	the	firft,	unknown	the	fecond
	news,
	Althaea	to	the	temples	pays	their	dues
	For	her	fon's	conqueft	;	when	at	length	appear	"^
	Her	grifly	brethren	ftretch'd	upon	the	bier	:	f
	Pale,	at	the	fudden	fight,	fhe	chang'd	herf
	eheer,	3
	And	with	her	cheer	her	robes	;	but	hearing	tell
	The	caufe,	the	manner,	and	by	whom	they	fell,
	'Twas	grief	no	more,	or	grief	and	rage	were	one
	Within	her	foul	;	at	laft	'twas	rage	alone	;
	Which	burning	upwards	in	fucceffion	dries
	The	tears	that	ftood	confidering	in	her	eyes.
	There	lay	a	log	unlighted	on	the	earth	:
	When	(he	was	labouring	in	the	throes	of	birth	r
	For	th'	unborn	chief	the	fatal	fillers	came,
	And	rais'd	it	up,	and	tofsM	it	on	the	flame	:
	Then	on	the	rock	a	fcanty	meafure	place
	Of	vital	flax,	and	tun/d	the	heel	apace	;
	And	turning	fung,	To	this	red	brand	and	thee,
	O	new-born	babe,	we	give	an	equal	deftiny	:
	So	vanifh'd	out	of	view.	The	frighted	dame
	Sprung	hafty	frra	her	bed,	and	qucnch'd	tbc
	fhtne	;


TRANSLATIONS	FROM	OVID.
	3-35
	From	lofty	roofs	the	Gods	repuls'd	before^
	Now	{looping,	enter'd	through	the	littI-2	door	;
	The	man	(their	hearty	welcome	firft	expreis'd)
	A	common	fettle	drew	for	either	gueft,
	Inviting	each	his	weary	limbs	to	fed.
	But	e'er	they	fat,	officious	Baucis	lays
	Two	cufhions	fluff	'd	with	draw,	the	feat	to	raife	;
	Coarfe,	but	the	beft	fhe	had	;	then	takes	the	load
	Of	afhes	from	the	hearth,	and	fpreads	abroad
	The	living	coals,	and	left	they	fhould	expire,
	With	leaves	and	barks	fhe	feeds	her	infant-fire	:
	It	fmokcs,	and	then	with	trembling	breath	fhe
	blows,
	Till	in	a	cheerful	blaze	the	flames	arofe.
	With	brufh-wood	and	with	chips	fhe	ftrengthens
	thefe,
	And	adds	at	laft	the	boughs	of	rotten	trees.
	The	fire	thus	form'd,	{he	fets	the	kettle	on,
	(Like	burnifb'd	gold	the	little	icether	fhone)
	Next	took	the	coleworts	which	her	hufband	got
	From	his	own	ground	(a	fmall	weil-water'd	fpot)	;
	She	ftripp'd	the	ftalks	of	all	their	leaves;	the	beft
	She	culi'd,	and	then	with	handy	care	fhe	drefb'd.
	High	o'er	the	hearth	a	chine	of	bacon	hung	;
	Good	old	Philemon	feiz'd	it	with	a	prong,
	And	from	the	footy	rafter	drew	it	down,
	Then	cut	a	flice,	but	fcarce	enottgh	for	one	:
	Yet	a	large	portion	of	a	little	(lore,
	"Which	for	their	fakes	alone	he	wifh'd	were	more.
	This	in	the	pot	he	plung'tl	without	delay,
	To	tame	the	fiefli,	and	drain	the	fait	away.
	The	time	between,	before	the	fire	they	fat,	\
	Andfhorten'd	the	delay	by	pleafing-	chat.
	A	beam	there	was,	on	which	a	beechen	pail
	Hung	by	the	handle,	on	a	driven	nail	:
	This	fill'd	with	water,	gently	warm'd,	they	fet
	Before	their	gue'fts;	in	this	they	bath'd	their
	feet,
	And	after	with	clean	towels	dry'd	their	fveat
	This	done,	the	hoft	produc'd	the	genial	bed,	~\
	Sallow	the	foot,	the	borders,	and	the	fled,
	Which	with	no	coflly	coverlet	they	fpread	;	j
	But	coarfe	old	garments,	yet	fuch	robes	as	thefe
	They	laid	alone,	at	feafts,	on	holydays.
	The	good	old	houfewife,	tucliing	up	her	gown,
	The	tables	fet	;	th'	invited	Gods	lie	down.
	The	trivet-table	of	a	foot	was	lame,
	A	blot	which	prudent	Baucis	overcame,
	Who	thruft,	beneath	the	limping	leg,	a	fherd,
	So	was	the	mended	board	exactly	rcar'd	:
	Then	rubb'd	it	o'er	with	newly-gather'd	mint,
	A	wholefome	hefb,	that	breath'd	a	grateful	fcent.
	Pallas	began	the	feaf!,	where	firft	was	feen
	The	party-colour'd	olive,	black	and	green	:
	Autumnal	cornels	next	in	order	ferv'd,
	In	lees	of	wine	well	pickled	and	preferv'd:
	A	garden	fallad	was	the	third	fupply,
	Of	endive,	radifhes,	and	fticcory	:
	Then	curds	and	cream,	the	flower	of	country"}
	fare,	/
	And	new-laid	eggs,	which	Baucis'	bufy	care	C
	Turn'd	by	a	gentle	fire,	and	roafted	rare.	j
	Ail	thefe	in	earthen	ware	were	ferv'd	to	board	;	~)
	And	next	in	place,	an	earthen	pitcher	ftor'd	C
	With	liquor	of	the	belt	tfys	cottage	could	afford.	)
	VPL.	V*.
	n
	3
	This	was	the	table's	ornament	and	pride,
	With	figures	wrought	:	like	pages	at	his	fide
	Stood	beechen	bowls;	and	thefe	were	mining
	clean,
	Varnifh'd	with	wax	without,	and	lin'd	within.
	By	this	the	boiling	kettle	had	prepar'd,
	And	to	the	table	lent	the	fraoking	lard	;
	On	which	with	eager	appetite	they	dine,
	A	favory	bit,	that	ferv'd	to	relifh	wine	:
	The	wine	itfelf	was	fuiting	to	the	reft,
	Still	Working	in	the	muft,	and	lately	prefs'd.
	The	fecond	courfe	fucceeds	like	that	before,
	Plums,	apples,	nuts,	and,	of	their	wintf	ry	ftore,
	Dry	figs	and	grapes,	and	wrinkled	dates,	were	fet
	In	cannifters,	t'	inlarge	the	little	treat	:
	All	thefe	a	milk-white	honey-comb	furround,
	Which	in	the	midft	the	country	banquet	crown'd.
	But	the	kind	hofts	their	entertainment	grace
	With	hearty	welcome,	and	an	open	face	:
	In	all	they	did,	you	might	difcern	with	cafe
	A	willing	mind,	and	a	defire	to	pleafe.	[ftill	,
	Meantime	the	beechen	bowls	went	round,	and
	Though	often	empty'd,	were	ohferv'd	to	fill,
	Fill'd	without	hands,	and	of	their	own	accord
	Ran	without	feet,	and	danc'd	about	the	board.
	Devotion	feiz'd	the	pair,	to	fee	the	feaft
	With	wine,	and	of	no	common	grape,	increas'd	:
	And	up	they	held	their	hands,	and	fell	to	prayer,
	Excufing,	as	they	could,	their	country	fare.
	One	goofe	they	had	('twas	all	they	could	allow)
	A	wakeful	centry,	and	on	duty	now,
	Whom	to	the	Gods	for	facrifice	they	vow	:
	Her,	with	malicious	zeal,	the	couple	view'd	;
	She	ran-	for	life,	and	limping	they	purfu'd	:
	Full	well	the	fowl	perceiv'd	their	bad	intent,
	And	would	not	make	her	mafter's	compliment	;
	But	perfecuted,	to	the	powers	fhe	flies,
	And	clofe	between	the	legs	of	Jove	fhe	lies.
	He	with	a	gracious	ear	the	fuppliam	heard,
	And	fav'd	her	life	;	then	what	he	was	dedar'd,
	And	own'd	the	God.	The	neighbourhood,	faid	he,
	Shall	juttly	prifh	for	impiety	:
	You	ftand	alone	exempted	;	but	obey
	With	fpeed,	and	follow	where	we	lead	the	way	:
	Leave	thefe	accurs'd	;	and	to	the	mountain's
	height
	Afcend	;	nor	once	look	backward	in	your	flight.
	They	hafte	;	and	what	their	tardy	feet	deny'd,
	The	trufty	ftaff	(their	better	leg)	fupply'd.
	An	arrow's	flight	they	wanted	to	the	top,
	And	there	feture,	but	fpent	with	travel,	(lop;
	Then	turs	their	now	no	more	forbidden	eyes	;
	Loft	in	a	lake	the	floated	level	lies	:
	A	watery	defert	covers	all	the	plains,
	Their	cot	alone,	as	in	an	ifle,	remains	:
	Wondering	with	peeping	eyes,	while	they	deptore
	Their	neighbours	fate,	and	country	now	no	more,
	Their	little	fhed	fcarce	large	enough	for	two,
	Seems,	from	the	ground	increas'd,	in	height	and
	bulk	to	grow,
	A	(lately	temple	fhoots	wi.thin	the	fkies	:
	The	crotchets	of	their	cot	in	columns	rie	:
	The	pavement	polifh'd	marble	they	behold,
	The	gates	with	fculpture	grac'd,	the	fpires	and
	tiles	of	gold.
	U


THE	WORKS	OF	DRY	DEN.
	Brcathlcfs	and	blind	hr	fell,	with	blood	befniear'd,
	His	eye-bulls	beaten	out	hunt;	dangling	on,	his
	beard.
	Fierce	Rhjetus,	from	the	hearth,	a	burning	brand
	Selects,	and	\\hirling	waves;	till,	from	his	hand
	The	fire	took	flame;	then	ti4uYd	it	from	the
	right,
	On	fair	Charaxus'	temples,	near	the	fight	:
	The	whittling	peft	came	on,	and	pierc'd	the	bone
	And	caughfr	the	yellow	hair,	that	fhrivel'd	while
	it	fhone.
	Caught,	like	dry	ftubble	fir'd,	or	like	fetrwood;	">
	Yet	from	the	wound	enfued	no	purple	flood;	(
	But	look'd	a	bubbling	nufa	of	frying	blood.	J
	His	blazing	locks	fc.ni	forth	a	crackling	found,
	And	hifs'd,	like	red	hot	ir'n	within	the	fmithy
	drown'd.
	The	wounded	warrior	(hook	his	flaming	hair,
	Then	(what	a	teem	of	horie	could	hardly	rear)
	He	heaves	the	thrcfhoid-ftone	;	but	could	not
	threw	;
	The	weight'itfelf	forbad	the	threaten'd	blow;
	Which,	dropping	from	his	lifted	aims,	came
	down
	Full	on	Comctes'	head,	and	cruih'd	his	crown.
	Nor	Rhsetus	then	retain'd	his	joy;	but	iaid,
	So	by	their	fellows	may	our	foes	be	fpcd	!
	Then	with	redoubled	ftrokes	he	plies	his	head	:
	The	burning	lever	not	deludes	his	pains;
	But	drivea	the	bsttcr'd	fkull	within	the	brains.
	Thus	fiufli'd,	the	conqueror,	with	force	rcnew'd,
	Evagrus,	Dryas,	Cory	thus,	purfut'd	;
	Firft,	Cory	thus,	with	downy	cheeks,	he	flew	;
	Whofe	fall	when	fierce	Evagrus	had	in	view,
	He	cry'd,	What	palm	is	from	a	beardleisprey	?
	Khatus	prevents	what	more	he	had	to	fay	;
	And	drove	within	his	mouth	the	fiery	death,
	Which	enter'd	hilling	in,	and	chok'd	hi?	breath.
	At	Dryas	next	he	Hew;	but	weary	chance
	No	longer	would	the	fame	fuccefs	advance.
	But	while	be	wbirl'd	in	fiery	circles	round	")
	The	brar.d,	alharpcn'd	(lake	ilrong	Dryas	found;	>
	And	in	the	ihouldti's	joint	infli&s	the	wound,	j
	The	weapon	ftruck	:	\vhkh	rearing	out	with"i
	pain	(
	He	drew	:	ror	longer	dtirft	the	fight	maintain,!"
	But	turn'd	his	Lack,	for	tear;	and	fled	aruain.	j
	With	him	tied	Orncuj,	with	like	dread	poflefs'd
	Tliaun.as	and	Medon	wounded	in	the	brcair.,*
	And	Menr.cros,	\v.	the	late	race	renown'd,
	Vc\v	limping	r*n,	and	tardy	with	his	wound.
	I'hclu*	and	Mclurteus	from	fight	withdrew,
	And	Abas	main/d,	who	boars	encountering	Hew;
	And	Augur	Ailyh.s,	whcfeart	in	vain
	From	fight	dilTuadcd	the	iV.us--foo:ed	ir^in,
	Now	beat	^he	hoof	with	Ncfliib	on	the	plain;
	But	to	his	fellow	cry'd,	be	lafely	flow,
	Thy	death	dcfcrr'J	js	due	to	great	Alcides*	bovv.
	Mean	time	ttrbng	Dryas	urg'd	i.is	chuuce	fo	well,
	That	Lycidas,	AJCOS,	Imbreus,	fell	;
	All,	ore	by	one,	and	fighting	fact	to	face	:
	-	,	to	fall	with	moreuifgracc	:
	J	-or,	'	it-arid	while	he	look'd	behind,	he	bore
	Betwixt	his	nok	w.u	i;	.:;:.,	\'w	blow	bclore.
	Amid	the	nolle	and	tumult	cf	the	fray,
	Snoiirg	and	drunk	with	wine,	Aphidas	lay.
	l-.v'n.	then	the	bowl	within	1m	hund	he	lu-j	t,
	And	(-n	a	hoar's	rou^h	hide	fccurcly	il'.pr.
	Him	Phorbdt>	with	his	{lying	dart	transfix'd	:
	Take	thy	next	draught	\.i	h	;jt.vt;ian	waters	mix'd.
	And	fiwt-p	thy	fill,	ih'	ihfuhing	viCior	cry'd	:
	Surpriz'd	with	deaih	urfelt,	the	Centaur	dy'd	;
	'I	he	ruddy	vomit,	a-;	he	brcath'd	his	i'rul,
	Rt'pais'd	his	throat,	and	fili'd	his	empty	bowl.
	I	faw	Fctraem	at	n:	employ	*d	around
	A	wel!-grov>	n	rak,	to	root	it	from	the	ground.
	Tliis	way	and	that,	he	wrei.ch'd	the	fibrous
	bands,
	The	trunk	was	like	a	fapling	in	his	hands,
	And	ftiii	obey	-d	the	bent	:	\\hiie	thus	he	flood,
	Ptriihoub'	dart	drove	on,	and	nail'd	him	to	the
	wood.
	Lycus	and	Chromys	fell,	by	him	rpprefs'd	:
	Helops	and	Dedys	added	to	the	reit
	A	nobler	palm	:	tiptops,	through	either	ear
	Transfix'd,	receiv'd	tht	penetrating	Ipear.
	This	Diclys	faw;	and,leiz'ci	with	fudden	fright,^
	l>e.apt	headlong	from	(he	hill	of	lleepy	height	;	'
	Ancf	ciufh'd	an	aih	beneath,	that	could	iiotbearf
	his	weight.	J.
	The	fhatter'd	tree	receives	his	fall,	and	ftrikes,
	Within	his	full	blown	paunch,	the	iharpcii'd,
	fpikes.
	Strong	Apharens	had	heav'd	a	mighty	(lone,
	The	fragment	of	a	rpck,	and	wculd	have	thrown;
	But	Tbefius,	with	a	club	of	hardeu'd	oak,
	The	ci
	And	It
	Then	leapt	on	tall	Hianor's	back	(who	bore
	No	moital	burden	but	hi*	own,	before).
	Prefs'd	with	his	knets	his	ndts;	the	double	mai>,
	His	fpeed	wi;h	fpur*.	incrtas'd,	unwilling	ran.
	One	hand	the	hero	fatten'd	on	his	locks;
	His	other	ply'd	him	with	repeated	ftrokes.
	The	club	hung	round	his	ears	and	hatter'd	brows;
	He	iaJls;	aud	killing	up	his	heels	his	rider
	throws.
	The	lame	Herculean	arms	Nedymnus	wound	;
	And	lay	by	him	l.ycotas	on	the	ground;
	And	Hippalus,	whole	beaid	his	bread	invades;
	And	Riphcus;,	hauiirer	of	the	\ycodland	fhades:
	And	Teitus,	us'd	with	mountain-bears	to	ilrive	;
	And	from	their	dens	to	draw	tii'	indignant
	alive.
	Demolcon	cculd	not	bear	this	hateful	fight,
	Or	the	lorig'forttuie	of	th'	Athenian	knight	;
	I'ut	pull'u	with	uli	his	force,	to	diitngage
	From	canh	a	pine,	the	product	of	an	age	:
	The	root	iluck	faft	;	the	broken	trurk	he	lent
	At	Thefeus	:	Theieus	Iruiirates	his	intent,
	And	leaps	afide,	by	Pallas	wain'd,	the	blow
	To	fhun	(for	fo	he	laid	;	and	we	bcliev'd	it	Co)
	Yet	no:	in	vain	th'	enonnou*	weight	was	cafi	;
	Which	C/antor'b	body	Junder'd	at	the	waift	:
	Thy	father's	fquire,	Achilles,	and	his	care.;
	V>	h-iin	conqLxr'd	in	the	Deiopeian	war.
	Their	king,	hi-;	preient	ruin	t<.>	prevent,
	A	pLcgc	c!	pe-cu	implor'd,	to	Fdcu	!";$;
	ti^lilCiu	<u	A	rots,	UiiU	wi;ui(i	n<*vc	IIIIUVYIIJ
	hellus,	with	u	club	of	hardeu'd	oak,	~)
	:ibit-bone	ot	the	bold	Centaur	bruke;	>
	:it	him	maini'd	;	n<<r	lcconcic.d	the	itroke.j


TRANSLATIONS	FROM	OVID.
	Thy	lire,	with	grieving	eyes,	beheld	his	fate;
	And	cry'd,	Not	long,	lov'd	Crantor,	lhak	thou
	wait
	Thy	vow'd	revenge.	At	once	he	faid,	and	threw
	His	afhen	fpear,	which	quivtr'd	as	it	flew,
	With	all	his	force	aud	all	his	foul	apply'd	;
	The	fharp	point	enter"	d	in	the	Centaur's	lide	:
	Both	hands,	to	wrench	it	out,	the	monfctr	join'd	;
	And	wrench'd	it	out;	but	left	ihc	fteel	behind.
	Stuck	in	his	lungs	it	ftood	:	ei;r.ig	^.	.
	His	hoofs,	and	down	to	ground	thy	fat-hji
	Thus	trampled	under	foot,	his	fhidd	defends
	His	head	;	his	other	hand	the	lance	protends.
	Ev'n	while	he	lay	extended	on	the	duft,
	He	fptd	the	Centaur,	with	one	fingle	thruft.
	Two	more	his	lance	before	transfix'd	from	far	;
	And	tv.'O	his	fword	had	flain	in	ciofer	v,ar.
	To	thefe	was	added	Dory	las	:	who	fpread
	A	bull's	two	goring	horns	around	his	head.
	With	thefe	he	pufh'd	;	in	blood	already	dy'd	;
	Him,	fearlefs,	I	approach'd,	and	thus	defy'd	:
	Now,	monfter,	now,	by	proof	it	fhall	appear,
	Whether	thy	horns	are	{harper,	or	my	fpear.
	At	thi?,	I	threw	:	for	want	of	other	ward,
	He	lifted	up	his	hand,	his	front	to	guard.
	His	hand	it	pafs'd,	and	fix'd	it	to	his	brow	:
	Loud	fhouts	of	oujs	attend	the	lucky	blow	:
	Him	Peleus	finifh'd,	with	a	fecond	wound,	"}
	Which	through	the	navel	pierc'd	:	he	reel'd/
	around,	-f
	And	dragg'd	hisdanglingbowelson	the	ground	:j
	Trod	what	he	dragg'd,	and	what	he	trod	he
	crufh'd	:
	And	to	his	mother	earth	with	empty	belly,	rufli'd.
	Nor	could	thy	form,	O	Cyliarus,	forcfhow
	Thy	fate	(if	form	to	monfters	men	allow)	;
	Juft	bloom'd	thy	beard,	thy	beard	of	golden	hue	:
	Thy	locks,	in	golden	waves,	about	thy	ihoulders
	flew.
	Sprightly	thy	look,-	thy	fhapes	in	every	part
	So	clean,	as	might	inflrudl	the	fculptor's	ait,	'
	As	far	as	man	extended	:	where	began
	The	beaft,	the	beaft	was	equal	to	the	man.
	Add	but	a	horfe's	head	and	neck,	and	he,
	O	Caftor,	was	a	courfer	worthy	ihcc.
	bo	was	his	back	proportion'd	for	the	feat	;
	So	rofe	his	brawny	cheft;	fo	f	wifely	mov'd	his
	feet.
	Coal-black	his	colour,	but	like	jet	it	fhone;
	His	legs	and	flnwii.g	tail	were	white	alone.
	Belov'J	by	many	maidens	of	his	kind,
	But	fair	Hylonome	poffeis'd	his	mind	;
	Hy'onomc,	for	features,	and	for	face,
	Excelling	all	the	nymphs	of	double	race	:
	Nor	lefs	her	blandifhments,	than	beauty,	move	;
	At	once	both	loving	and	confefling	1	M	.	:.
	For	him	fhe	drefa'd	;	for	him	with	female	care
	he	comb'd,	arid	fet	in	curl,	her	auburn	hair.
	Of	roles,	violets,	and	lilies	mix'd,
	And	fprigs	of	flowing	rofemary	betwixt,
	She	formed	the	chaplet,	that	adorn'd	her	front	:
	In	waters	of	the	Pegatean	fount,
	And	in	the	flrcams	that	from	the	fountain	play,
	he	wafh'd	her	face,	acd	bati.'J	h.-i	uwc<.-	.-/.	-.
	The	fcarf	of	furs,	that	hung	below	her	fide,
	Was	t-rmin,	or	the	panther's	lp<-ued	pride	;
	-poils	of	no	common	be	ail	:	witli	equal	rl;me
	'1	iicy	lov'd	:	their	fylvan	pictures	\\cre	'he	fume:
	All	day	they	hunted;	and	when	day	expir'd,
	Together	to	fome	iluidy	cave	retir'd.
	Invited,	to	the	nuptials	both	repair	:
	And,	iiue	by	fide,	they	both	engage	in	war.
	Uncertain	from	what	hand,	a	flying	d;irr
	At	Cyliarus	was	km,	which	pierc'd	hi*	heart,
	i	he	javelin	drawn	from	out	the	mortal	waund,
	lie	i'aints	with	daggering	itcps,	aud	i'ccks	the
	ground	:
	The	fair	within	her	arms	received	his	fall,
	And	ftrove	his	wandering	fpirits	to	recal	:
	And,	while	her	hand	the	ilreaming	bluod	oppos'd,
	Join'd	face	t	face,	his	lips	with	her's	fhe	clos'd.
	btifled	with	kiffes,	a	fweet	death	he	dits;
	She	fills	the	fields	with	undiftinguifti'd	cries	:
	At	leaft	her	words	were	in	her	clamour	drown'd;
	For	my	ftunn'd	ears	receiv'd	no	vocal	found.
	In	madnefs	of	her	grief,	fhe	feiz'd	the	dart
	New-drawn,	and	reeking	from	her	lover's	heart;
	To	her	bare	bofom	the	fhui	p	point	apply'd,	"^
	And	wounded	fell	;	and,	falling	by	his	fide,	f-
	Embrac'd	him	in	hex	arms,	and	thus	embracing	C
	dy'd.	3,
	Ev^n	{till,	methinks,	I	fee	Phxocomes;
	Strange	was	his	habit,	and	as	odd	his	drefs.
	Six	lions	hides,	with	thongs	together	faft,
	His	upper	part	defended	to	his	waift	;
	And	where	man	ended,	the	continued	veft
	Spread	on	his	back	the	houfe	and	trappings	o
	a	beaft.
	A	flump	too	heavy	for	a	team	to	draw
	(It	feems	a	fable,	though	the	facT:	I	faw)	;
	He	thr-cw	at	Pholon	;	the	defcending	blow
	Divides	the	fkull,	and	cleaves	his	head	in	two.
	The	brains,	from	nofe	and	mouth,	and	either	ear,
	Came	iiTuing	out,	as	through	a	colendar
	The	curdled	milk:	or	from	the	prefs	the	whey,
	Driven	down	by	weights	above,	is	drain'd	away.
	But	him,	while	(looping	down	to	fpoil	the	flain,
	Pierc'd	through	the	paunch,	I	tumbled	on	the	plain.
	Then	Chtiionius	and	Tckboas	I	flew	:
	A	fork	the	former	arm'd	;	a	dart	his	fellow	threw.
	The	javelin	wounded	me	(behold	the	fear).
	Then	was	my	time	to	feek	the	Trojan	war	;
	Then	I	was	Hcdior's	match	in	open	field	;
	Eut	he	was	then	unborn;	at	leak	a	child;
	Now,	I	am	nothing.	I	forbear	to	tell
	By	Periphantcs	how	Pyretus	fell;
	The	Centaur	by	the	Knight	:	nor	will	I	flay
	On	Amphix,	or	what	deaths	he	dealt	that	day	:
	What	honour,	with	a	pointlefs	lance,	he	won,
	Stuck	in	the	front	of	a	four-footed	man.
	What	fame	young	Macareus	obtain'd	in	fight	:
	Or	dwell	on	Neffus,	now	return'd	from	flight.
	How	prophet	Mopfus	not	alone	divin'd,
	Whcfe	valour	equal'd	his	forefeeing	mind.
	Already	Caeneus,	with	his	conquering	hand,
	Had	flaughter'd	five	the	boldeft	of	their	band	;
	Pyrachmus,	Helymus,	Autimachui,
	-	:];:	br.ivc	:	and	ftronger	Stiphclu*:


TRANSLATIONS	FROM	OVID.
	3*9
	To	him	our	common	grandfire	of	the	main
	Had	given	to	change	his	form,	and,	chang'd,	re-
	fume	again.
	Vary'd	at	pkafure,	every	fhape	he	try'd;
	And	in	all	beafts	Alcides	ftill	defy'd	:
	Vanquifh'd	on	earth,	at	length	he	foar'd	above	;
	Chang'd	to	the	bird,	that	bears	the	bolt	of	Jove	:
	The	new	diffembled	eagle,	now	endu'd
	With	peak	and	pounces,	Hercules	purfu'd,
	And	cuff	'd	his	manly	cheeks,	and	tore	his	face	;
	Then,	fafe	retir'd,	and	tour'd	in	empty	fpace.
	Alcides	bore	not	long	his	flying	foe,
	But,	bending	his	inevitable	bow,
	Reach'd	him	in	air,	fufpended	as	he	flood	;
	And	in	his	pinion	fix'd	the	feather'd	wood.
	Light	was	the	wound	;	but	in	the	finew	hung
	The	point	;	and	his	difabled	wing	unftning.
	He	wheel'd	in	air,	and	ftretch'd	his	vans	in	vain	;
	His	vans	no	longer	could	his	flight	fuftain	:
	For	while	one	gather'd	wind,	one	unfupply'd
	Hung	drooping	down	;	nor	pois'd	his	other	fide.
	He	fell	:	the	fhaft,	that	flightly	was	imprefs'd,
	Now	from	his	heavy	fall	with	weight	increas'd,
	Drove	through	his	neck,	aflant	;	he	fpurns	the
	ground,
	And	the	foul	iffues	through	the	weazon's	wound.
	Now,	brave	commander	of	the	Rhodian	feas,
	"What	praife	is	due	from	me	to	Hercules?
	Silence	is	all	the	vengeance	I	decree	.
	For	my	fiain	brothers	;'	but	'tis	peace	with	thee.
	Thus	with	a	flowing	tongue	old	Neftor	fpoke	:
	Then,	to	full	bowls	each	other	they	provoke	:
	At	length,	with	wearinefs	and	wine	opprefs'd,
	They	rife	from	table,	and	withdraw	to	reft.
	The	fire	of	Cygnus,	monarch	of	the	main,
	Mean	time,	laments	his	fon,	in	battle	flain
	And	vows	the	victor's	death,	nor	vows
	For	nine	long	years	the	fmother'd	pain	he	bore
	(Achilles	was	not	ripe	for	fate	before)	:
	Then	when	he	faw	the	promis'd	hour	was	near,
	He	thusbefpoke	the	God	that	guides	the	year.
	Immortal	offspring	of	my	brother	Jove	;
	My	brighteft	nephew,	and	whom	beft	I	love,
	Whofe	hands	were	join'd	with	mine,	to	raife	the
	wall
	Of	tottering	Troy,	now	nodding	to	her	fall	;
	Doft	thou	not	mourn	our	power	employ'd	in	vain,
	And	the	defenders	of	our	city	flain	?
	To	pafs	the	reft,	could	noble	Hector	lie
	Unpity'd,	dragg'd	around	his	native	Troy	?
	And	yet	the	murderer	lives	:	himfelf	by	far	'
	A	greater	plague,	than	all	the	wafteful	war	:
	He	lives	;	the	proud	Pelides	lives,	to	boaft
	flur	town	deftroy'd,	our	common	labour	loft	!
	main,	~)
	ain	:	>
	in	vain,	j
	O,	could	I	meet	him!	but	I	wifh	too	late	;
	To	prove	my	trident,	is	not	in	his	fate
	But	let	him	try	(for	that's	allow'd)	thy	dart,
	And	pierce	his	only	penetrable	part.
	Apollo	bows	to	the	fuperior	throne	;
	And	to	his	uncle's	anger	adds	his	own.
	Then	in	a	cloud	involv'd,	he	takes	his	flight,
	Where	Greeks	and	Trojans	nu'x'd	in	moital	fight;
	And	found	out	Paris,	lurking	where	he	flood,
	And	ftain'd	his	arrows	with	plebeian	blood	:
	Phoebus	to	him	alone	the	God	confefs'd,
	Then	to	the	recreant	knight	he	thus	addrefs'd	:
	Doft	thou	not	blulh,	to	fpend	thy	fhafts	in	vain
	On	a	degenerate	and	ignoble	train	?
	If	fame,	or	better	vengeance,	be	thy	care,
	Their	aim,	and,	with	one	arrow,	end	the	war.
	He	faid,	and	fhevv'd	from	far	the	blazing!
	fludd
	Andfword,which	but	Achilles	none	could	wield;	f
	And	how	he	mov'd	a	God,	and	mow'd	the	j
	ftanditig	field.
	The	Deity	himfelf	directs	aright
	Th'	invenom'd	fhaft	;	and	wings	the	fatal	flight.
	Thus	fell	the	foremoft	of	the	Grecian	name	;
	And	he,	the	bafe	adulterer,	boafts	the	fame.
	A	fpe6ac!e	to	glad	the	Trojan	train	;
	And	pleafe	old	Priam,	after	Hector	flain.
	If	by	a	female	hand	he	had	forefeen
	He	was	to	die,	his	wifh	had	rather	been
	The	lance	and	double	ax	of	the	fair	warrior	|
	queen.
	And	now,	the	terror	of	the	Trojan	field,
	The	Grecian	honour,	ornament,	and	fhield,
	High	on	a	pile,	th'	unconquer'd	chief	is	plac'd	:
	The	God	that	arm'd	him	firft,	confum'd	at	laft,
	Of	all	the	mighty	man,	the	fmall	remains
	A	little	urn,	and	fcarcely	fill'd,	contains.
	Yet	great	in	Homer,	ftill	Achilles	lives	;
	And,	equal	to	himfelf,	himfelf	furvives.
	His	buckler	owns	its	former	lord,	and	brings
	New	caufe	of	ftrife	betwixt	contending	kings;
	Who	worthieft,	after	him,	his	fword	to	wield,
	Or	wear	his	armour,	or	fuftain	his	fhield.
	Ev'n	Diomede	fat	mute,	with	down-caft	eyes;
	Confcious	of	wanted	worth	to	win	the	prize	:
	Nor	Menelaus	prefum'd	thcfe	arms	to	claim,
	Nor	he	the	king	of	men,	a	greater	name.
	Two	rivals	only	rofe	:	Laertes'	fon,
	And	the	vaft	bulk	of	Ajax	Telamon.
	The	king,	who	cherifh'd	each	with	equal	love,
	And	from	himfelf	all	envy	would	remove,
	Left	both	to	be	determin'd	by	the	laws	;
	And	to	the	Grecian	chiefs	transferr'd	the	caufe.
	!
	warrior	f


TRANSLATIONS.
	And	beat	their	naked	bofoms,	and	complain,
	And	call	aloud	for	Phaeton	in	vain	:
	All	the	long	night	their	mournful	watch	they	keep,
	And	all	the	day	ftand	round	the	tomb	and	weep.
	Four	times,	revolving,	the	full	moon	return'd	;
	So	long	the	mother	and	the	daughters	mourn'd	;
	When	now	the	eldeft,	Phaethufa,	drove
	To	reft	her	weary	limbs,	but	could	not	move	;
	Lampetia	would	have	help'd	her,	but	fhe	found
	Herfelf	withheld,	and	rooted	to	the	ground	:
	A	third	in	wild	affliction,	as	fhe	grieves,
	"Would	rend	her	hair,	but	fills	her	hand	with
	leaves	;
	One	fees	her	thighs	transform'd,	another	views
	Her	arms	fhot	out,	and	branching	into	boughs.
	And	now	their	legs,	and	breaft?,	and	bodies,	flood
	Grufted	with	bark,	and	hardening	into	wood	;
	But	ftill	above	were	female	heads	difplay'd,
	And	mouths,	that	call'd	the	mother	to	their	aid.
	What	could,	alas	!	the	weeping	mother	do	?	")
	From	this	to	that	with	eager	hafte	fhe	flew,	>
	And	kils'd	her	fprouting	daughters	as	they	grew.	)'
	She	tears	the	bark	that	to	each	body	cleaves,
	And	from	the	verdant	fingers	ftrips	the	leaves	:
	The	blood	came	trickling,	where	fhe	tore	away
	The	leaves	and	bark	:	the	maids	were	heard	to	fay,
	"	Forbear,	miftaken	parent,	oh	!	forbear;
	"	A	wounded	daughter	in	each	tree	you	tear	;
	"	Farewell	for	ever."	Here	the	bark	increas'd,
	Clos'd	on	their	faces,	and	their	words	fupprefs>'d.
	The	new-made	trees	in	tears	of	amber	run,
	Which,	harden'd	into	value	by	the	fun,
	piftil	for	ever	on	the	ftreams	below	:
	The	limpid	ftreams	their	radiant	treafure	fhow,
	Mix'd	in	the	fand	;	whence	the	rich	drops	convey'd
	Shine	in	the	drefs	of	the	bright	Latiaa	maid.
	THE	TRANSFORMATION	OF	CYCNUS
	INTO	A	SWAN.
	CYCNUS	beheld	the	nyrnphs	transform'd,	ally'd
	To	their	dead	brother,	on	the	mortal	fide,
	In	friendfliip	and	affection	nearer	bound;
	He	left	the	cities	and	the	realms	he	own'd,
	Through	pathlefs	fields	and	lonely	fliores	to	range,
	And	woods,	made	thicker	by	the	fillers'	change.
	Whilfl	here,	within	the	difmal	gloom,	alone,
	The	melancholy	monarch	made	his	moan,
	His	voice	was	leflen'd,	as	he	try'd	to	fpeak,
	And	iffued	through	a	long-extended	neck	;
	Hi's	hair	transforms	to	down,	his	fingers	meet
	In	fkinny	films,	and	fhape	his	oary	feet	;
	From	both	his	fides	the	wings	and	feathers	break	;
	And	fcom	his	mouth	proceeds	a	blunted	beak	:
	All	Cycnus	now	into	a	fwan	was	turn'd,
	Who,	ftill	remembering	how	his	kinlman	burn'd,
	To	folitary	pools	and	lakes	retires,
	And	loves	the	waters	as	oppos'd	to	fires.
	Mean-while	Apollo	in	a	gloomy	made
	(The	native	luftre	of	his	brows	decay	'd)
	Indulging	forrow,	fickens	at	the	fight
	Qf	lus	own	fun-fhine,	and	abhors	the	light	:
	The	hidden	griefs,	that	in	his	bofom	rife,
	Sadden	his	looks,	and	overcaft	his	eyes,
	As	when	fome	dufky	orb	obftrucls	his	ray,
	And	fullies,	in	a	dim	eclipfe,	the	day.
	Now	fecretly	with	inward	griefs	he	pin'd,
	Now	warm	refentments	to	his	griefs	he	join'd,
	And	now	renounc'd	his	office	to	mankind.
	"	E'er	fince	the	birth	of	time,"	faid	he,	*	TTC
	"	borne
	A	long	ungrateful	toil	without	return	;
	Let	now	fome	other	manage,	if	he	dare.
	The	fiery	fteeds,	and	mount	the	burning	car,
	Or,	if	none	elfe,let	Jove	his	fortune	try,
	And	learn	to	lay	his	murdering	thunder	by	;
	Then	will	he	own,	perhaps,	but	own	too	late,
	My	fon	deferv'd	not	fo	fevere	a	fate."
	The	gods	ftand	round	him,	as	he	mourns,	and.
	pray
	He	would	refume	the	conduct	of	the	day,
	Nor	let	the	world	be	loft	in	endleft	night	:
	Jove	too	himfelf,	defcending	from	his	height,
	Excufes	what	had	happen'd,	and	entreats,
	Majeflically	mixing	prayers	and	threats.
	Prevail'd	upon	at	length,	again	he	took
	The	harnefs'd	fteeds,	that	ftill	with	horror	fhook,
	And	plies	them	with	the	lafli,	and	whips^hem	on^
	And,	as	he	whips,	upbraids	them	with	his	fon,
	THE	STORY	OF	CALISTO.
	THE	day	was	fettled	in	its	courfe;	and	Jove
	Walk'd	the	wide	circuit	of	the	heavens	abovC|
	To	fearch	if	any	cracks	or	flaws	were	made;
	But	all	was	fafe	:	'	the	earth	he	then	furvey'd,
	And	caft	an	eye	on	every	different	coaft,
	And	every	land	;	but	on	Arcadia	nioft.
	Here	fields	he	cloth'd,	and	cheer'd	her	blafted
	m	face
	With	running	fountains,	and	with	fpringing	grafs.
	No	tracts	of	heaven's	deftructive	fire	remain	;
	The	fields	and	woods	revive,	and	nature	fmiles
	again.
	But,	as	the	god	walk'd	to	and	fro	the	earth,
	And	rais'd	the	plants,	and	gave	the	fpritig	itsbirthj
	By	chance	a	fair	Arcadian	nymph	he	view'd,
	And	felt	the	lovely	charmer	in	his	blood.
	The	nymph	nor	fpun,	nor	drefs'd	with	artful	pride;
	Her	veil	was	gather	'd	up,	her	hair	was	ty'd;
	Now	in	her	hand	a	flender	fpear	fhe	bore,
	Now	a	light	quiver	on	her	moulders	wore;
	To	chafte	Diana	from	her	youth	inclin'd,
	The	fprightly	warriors	of	the	wood	ihe	join'd.
	Diana,	too	the	gentle	huntrcfs	lov'd,
	Nor	was	there	one	of	all	the	nymphs	that	rov'd
	O'er	Msenalus,	amid	the	maiden	throng,
	More	favour'd	once	;	but	favour	lafts	not	long.
	The	fun	now	fhone	in	all	its	ftrength,	and	drove
	The	heated	virgin	panting	to	a	grove	;
	The	grove	around	a	grateful	fhadow	caft	:
	She	dropt	her	arrows,	and	her	b->w	unbrac'd;
	She	flung	herfelf	on	the	cool	graffy	bed	;
	And	c;i	the	painted	quiver	raii'4	her	head,


THE	WORKS	OF	ADDISON.
	Jove	faw	the	charming	huntrefs	unprepar'd,
	Stretch'd	on	the	verdant	turf,	without	a	guard.
	"	Here	I	am	fafe,"	he	cries,	"	from	Juno's	eye	;
	"	Or	fliould	my	jealous	queen	the	theft	defcry,
	*	Yet	would	T	venture	on	a	theft	like	this,
	"	And	{land	her	rage	for	fuch,	for	fuch	a	blifs	!"
	Diana's	fhape	and	habit	ftraight	he	took,	"p
	Soften'd	his	brows,	and	fmooth'd	his	awful	look,	C
	And	mildly	in	a	female	accent	fpoke.	j
	"	How	fares	my	girl	?	How	went	the	morning
	"	chace?"
	To	whom	the	virgin,	ftarting	from	the	grafs,
	"	AH	hail,	bright	deity,	whom	I	prefer
	M	To	Jove	himfelf,	though	Jove	himfelf	were
	'	here."
	The	god	was	nearer	than	(he	thought,	and	heard
	Well-pleas'	d	himfelf	before	himfelf	preferr'd.
	He	then	falutes	her	with	a	warm	embrace	;
	And,	ere	fhe	half	had	told	the	morning	chace,
	"With	love	inflam'd,	and	eager	on	his	blifs,
	Smother'd	her	words,	and	ftop'd	her	with	a	kifs	;
	His	kifl'es	with	unwonted	ardour	glow'd,
	Nor	could	Diana's	fhape	conceal	the	god.
	The	virgin	did	whate'er	a	virgin	cou'd
	^Sure	Juno	muft	have	pardon'd,	had	fhe	view'd)	;
	With	all	her	might	againft	his	force	me	drove	:
	2ut	how	can	mortal	maids	contend	with	Jove	!
	Pofleft	at	length	of	what	his	heart	defir'd,
	Back	to	his	heavens	th*	infulting	god	retir'd.
	The	lovely	huntrefs,	rifing	from	the	grafs,
	With	down-caft	eyes,	and	with	a	blufliing	face,
	By	fhame	confounded,	and	by	fear	difmay'd,
	Flew	from	the	covert	of	the	guilty	{hade,
	And	almoft,	in	the	tumult	of	her	mind,
	Left	her	forgetten	bow	and	fhafts	behind.
	But	now	Diana,	with	a	fprightly	train
	Of	quiver'd	virgins,	bounding	o'er	the	plain,
	Call'd	to	the	nymph	:	The	nymph	began	to	fear
	A	fecond	fraud,	a	Jove	difguis'd	in	her	;
	But,	when	fhe	faw	the	lifter	nymphs,	fupprefs'd
	Her	rifing	fears,	and	mingled	with	the	reft.
	How	in	the	look	does	confcious	guilt	appear	'.
	Slowly	(he	mov'd,	and	loiter'd	in	the	rear;
	Nor	lightly	tripp'd,	nor	by	the	goddefs	ran,
	As	once	{he	us'd,	the	foremoft	of	the	train.
	Her	looks	were	flufh'd,	and	fullen	was	her	mkn,T
	That	fure	the	virgin	goddefs	(had	{he	been
	Aught	but	a	virgin)	muft	the	guilt	have	fecn.	j
	'Tis	faid	the	nymphs	faw	all,	and	guels'd	aright	:
	And	now	the	moon	had	nine	times	loft	her	light,
	When	Dian	fainting,	in	the	mid-day	beams,
	Found	a	cool	covert,	and	refrtfhing	ftreams,
	That	in	foft	murmurs	through	the	foretl	flow'd,
	And	a	fmooth	bed	of	fhining	gravel	fliow'd.
	A	covert	fo	obfcure,	and	ftreams	fo	clear,
	The	goddefs	prais'd	:	"	And	now	no	fpies	are	near,
	"	Let's	ftrip,	my	gentle	maids,	and	wa{h,"	fhe
	cries.
	Pleas'd	with	the	motion,	every	maid	complies;
	Only	the	blufhing	humrcis	flood	confus'd,
	And	form'd	delays,	and	her	delays	excus'd	:
	In	vain	excus'd;	her	fellows	round	her	preis'd,
	And	the	reluctant	nymph	by	force	undreis'd.
	The	naked	huntrefs	all	her	flume	reveal'd,
	&	vain	her	hands	the	pregnant	womb
	"	Begone	'."	the	goddefs	cries	with	flern	dif-"l
	'	dain	;	[(lain	:"	/
	"	Begone;	nor	dare	the	hallow	'd	ftream	roT
	She	fled,	for	ever	banifti'd	from	the	train.	J
	This	Juno	heard,	who	long	had	watch'd	her	time
	To	punifti	the	detcfted	rival's	criiie	;
	The	time	was	come	:	for,	to	enrage	her	more^
	A	lovely	boy	the	teeming	rivai	bore.
	The	goddefs	caft	a	furious	look,	and	cry'd,
	It	is	enough	!	I'm	fully	fatisfy'd	!
	This	boy	mall	ftand	a	living	mark,	to	prove
	My	hufband's	bafenefs,	and	the	{trumpet's	love	:
	But	vengeance	{hall	awake	thofe	guilty	charms,
	That	drew	the	thunderer	from	Juno's	arms,
	No	longer	fhall	their	wonted	force	retain,
	Nor	pleafe	the	god,	nor	make	the	mortal	vain.'*
	This	faid,	her	hand	within	her	hair	{he	wound,
	Swung	her	to	earth,	and	dragg'd	her	on	the
	ground	;
	The	proftrate	wretch	lifts	up	her	arms	in	prayer	;
	Her	arms	grow	fliaggy,	and	deform'd	with	hair,
	Her	nails	are	{harpen'd	into	pointed	claws,
	Her	hands	bear	half	her	weight,	and	turn	to	paws	;
	Her	lips,	that	once	could	tempt	a	god,	begin
	To	grow	diftorted	in	an	ugly	grin.
	And,	left	the	fupplicating	brute	might	reach
	The	ears	of	Jove,	{he	was	depriv'd	of	fpcech	:
	Her	furly	voice	through	a	hoarfe	paflage	came
	In	favage	founds	:	her	mind	was	ftili	the	fame.
	The	furry	monfter	fix'd	her	eyes	above,
	And	heav'd	her	new	unweildy	paws	to	Jove,
	And	begg'd	his	aid	with	inward	groans,	andthough
	She	could	not	call	him	falfe,	flic	thought	him	fo.
	How	did	fhe	fear	to	lodge	in	woods	alone,
	And	haunt	the	fields	and	meadows	once	her	own	!
	Ho>-'	often	would	the	decp-mouth'd	dogs	purfue,
	Whilft	from	her	hounds	the	frighted	huntrefs	flew	I
	How	did	{he	fear	her	fellow	brutes,	and	fhun
	The	fliaggy	bear,	though	now	herfclf	was	one	!
	How	from	the	fight	of	rugged	wolves	retire,
	Although	the	grim	Lycaon	was	her	fire	!
	But	now	her	fon	had	fifteen	fummers	told,
	Fierce	at	the	chace,	and	in	the	forcil	bold	;
	When,	as	he	beat	the	woods	in	queft	of	prey,
	He	chanc'd	to	roufc	his	mother	where	{he	lay.
	She	knew	her	fon,	and	kept	him	in	her	fight,
	And	fondly	gaz'd	:	the	boy	was	in	a	fright,
	And	aim'd	a	pointed	arrow	at	her	breatt	;
	And	would	have	flain	his	mother	in	the	bcaft;
	But	Jove	forbad,	and	fnatch'd	them	through	the	air
	In	whirlwinds	up	to	heaven,	and	fix'd	them	there:
	Where	the	new	cojiftellations	nightly	rife,
	And	add	aluftre	to	the	northern	flcies.
	When	Juno	favv	the	rival	in	her	height,
	Spangled	with	ftar^,	and	circled	round	with	light,
	She	fought	old	Ocean	in	his	deep	abodes,
	And	Tethys;	both	revcr'd	among	the	gods,	[{he,
	They	aflc	what	brings	her	there,"	Ne'er	aflc,"	fays
	"	What	brings	me	here	;	heaven	is	no	place	for	me.
	"	You'll	fee,	when	night	has	cover'd	all	thing,
	"	o'er,
	"	Jove's	fHrry	baftard	and	triumphant	whore
	"	Uiurp	the	heavens	;	you'll	fee	them	proudly
	"	roll
	"	In	their	r.ew	orbs,	an:l	brighten	all	the	pole,


TRANSLATIONS.
	**	And	doft.	thou	thus	betray	myfelf	to	me	'.
	".	Me	to	myfelf	doft	thou	betray	?"	fays	he	:
	ihien	to	a	Touch-ftone	turns	the	faithlefs	fpy,
	And	in	his	name	records	his	infamy.
	THE	STORY	OF	AGLAUROS,	TRANS
	FORMED	INTO	A	STATUE.
	THIS	done,	the	god	flew	up	on	high,	and	pafs'd
	6'er	lofty	Athens,	by	Minerva	grac'd,
	And	wide	Munichia,	whild	his	eyes	furvey
	All	the	vaft	region	that	beneath	him	lay.
	'Twas	now	the	fead,	when	each	Athenian	maid
	Her	yearly	homage	to	Minerva	paid.;
	In	caniders,	with	garlands	cover'd	o'er,
	High	on	their	heads	their	mydic	gifts	they	bore	;
	And	now,	returning	in	a	folemn	train,
	The	troop	of	Chining	virgins	fill'd	the	plain.
	The	god	weil-pleas'd	beheld	the	pompous	fhow,
	And	faw	the	bright	procefllon	pafs	below	;
	Then	veer'd	about,	and	took	a	wheeling	flight,
	And	hover'd	o'er	them	;	as	the	fpreading	kh	e
	That	fmells	the	flaughter'd	vidims	from	on"^
	high,	(.
	Flies	at	a	didance,	if	the	prieds	are	nigh,	(
	And	fails	around,	and	keeps	it	in	her	eye	:	J
	So	kept	the	god	the	virgin	choir	in	view,
	And	in	flow	winding	circles	round	them	flew.
	As	Lucifer	excels	the	meaned	dar,
	Or,	as	the	full	orb'd	Phoebe	Lucifer;
	So	much	did	Hersa	all	the	red	outvy,
	And	gave	a	grace	to	the	folemnity.
	Hermes	was	fir'd,	as	in	the	clouds	he	hung	:
	So	the	cold	bullet,	that	with'	fury	flung
	From	Balearic	engines-mounts	on	high,
	Glows	in	the	whirl,	and	burns	along	the	flcy.
	At	length	he	pitch'd	upon	the	ground,	and	dew'
	The	form	divine,	the	features	of	a	god.
	He	knew	the	virtue	o'er	a	female	heart,
	And	yet	he	drives	to	better	them	by	art.
	He	hangs	his	mantle	loofe,	and	fets	to	(how
	The	golden	edging	on	the	feam	below;
	Adjuds	his	flowing	curls,	and	in	his	hand
	Waves	with	an	air	the	deep-procuring	wand	:
	The	glittering	fandals	to	his	feet	applies,	,
	And	to	each	heel	the	well-frim'd	pinion	tie.
	His	ornaments	with	niced	art	difplay'd,
	He	fecks	th'	apartment	of	the	royal	maid.
	The	roof	was	all	with	polifli'd	Ivory	lin'd,
	That,	richly	mix'd,	in	clouds	of	tortoife	(hin'd.
	Three	rooms	contiguous	in	a	range	were	plac'd	;
	The	midmoft	by	the	beauteous	Herse	grac'd	;
	Her	virgin	fiders	lodg'd	an	cither	fide.
	Aglauros	fird	th*	approaching	god	defcry'd,
	And,	as	he	crols'd	her	chamber,	aflc'd	his	name,
	And	what	his	bufmei's	was,	and	whence	he	came.
	"	I	come,"	reply'd	the	god,	"	from	heaven	to	woo
	**	Your	fitter,	and	to	make	an	aunt	of	you	;
	"	I	am	the	fon	and	meflenger	of	Jove,
	"	My	name	is	Mercury,	my	bufinefs	love	;
	"	Do	you,	kind	danifel,	take	a	lover's	part,
	"	And	gain	admittance	to	your	filler's	heart."
	She	dar'd	him	in	the	face	with	looks	anjaz'd,
	As	when	(he	on	Minerva's	fecret	gaz'd,
	And	afks	a	mighty	treafure	for	her	hire,
	And	till	he	brings	it,	makes	the	gods	retire,
	tfinerva	griev'd	to-fee	the	nymph	fucceed	;
	And	now	remembering	the	late	impious	deed,
	Vhen,	difobedient	to	her	drift	command,
	Sotouch'dthe	ched	with	an	unhallow'd	hand;
	n	big	fwoln	fighs	her	inward	fighs	exprefs'd,
	That	heav'd	the	rifing	,/Egis	on	her	bread	;
	Then	fought	out	envy	in	her	dark	abode,
	Defil'd	with	ropy	gore	and	clots	of	blood'	:
	Shut	from	the	winds,	and	from	the	whblefome	(kie	y
	n	a	deep	vale	the	gloomy	dungeon	lies,
	Difmal	and	cold,	where	not	a	beam	of	light
	nvades	the	winter,	or	didurbs	the	night.
	Directly	to	the	cave	her	courfe	(he	fteer'd	;
	Againd	the	gates	her	martial	lance	(h<;	rear'd	;
	The	gates	flew	open,	and	the	fiend	appear'd.
	A	poifonous	morfel	in	her	teeth	(he	chew'd,
	And	gorg'd	the	fleflt	of	vipers	for	her	food.
	Minerva,	loathing,	turn'd	away	her	eye	;
	The	hideous	monder,	rifing	heavily,
	Came	dalking	forward	with	a	fullen	pace,
	And	left	her	mangled	offals	on	the	place.
	Soon	as	die	faw	the	goddefs	gay	and	bright,
	She	fetch'd	a	groan	at	fuch	a	cheerful	fight.
	Livid	and	meagre	were	her	looks,	her	eye
	In	foul	didorted	glances	turn'd	awry	:
	A	board	of	gall	her	inward	parts	pofiefs'd,
	And	fpread	a	greennefs	o'er	her	canker'd	breafl	?
	Her	teeth	were	brown	withrud;	and	from-	he*'
	tongue,
	fn	dangling	drops,	the	dringy	p'oifon	hung.
	She	never	fmiles	but	when	the	wretched	weep,
	Nor	lulls	her	malice	with'	a	moment's	deep.
	Redlefs	in	fpite	:	while,	watchful	to	dcftroy,
	She	pines	with	ficknefs	at	another's	joy;
	Foe	to	herfelf,	didrefling	and	didreft,
	She	bears	her	own	tormentor	in	her	breaft.
	The	goddefs	gave	(for	flic	abhorr'd	her	fight)
	A	fhort	command	:	"	To	Athens	fpeed	thy	flight	j
	"	On	curd	Aglauros	try	thy	utmod	art,
	"	And	fix	thy	ranked	venoms	in	her	heart."
	This	faid,	her	fpear	(he	pudi'd	againd	the	ground,'
	And,	mounting	from	it	with	an	active	bound,
	Flew	off	to	heaven	:	The	hag	with	eyes	aflcew
	Look'd	up,	and	mutter'd	curfes	as	fhe	fisw	:
	For	fore	(he	fretted,	and	began	to	grieve
	At	the	fuccefs	which	die	herfelf	mud	give.
	Then	takes	her	ftaff,	hung	round	with	wreaths	of
	thorn,
	And	fails	along,	in	a	black	whirlwind	born.
	O'er	fields	and	flowery	meadows	:	where	(he
	deers
	Her	baneful	courfe,	a	mighty	blad	appears,,
	Mildew?	and	blights	;	the	meadows	are	defac'd,.
	The	fields,	the	flowers,	and	the	whole	year,	laid
	wade	:
	On	mortals	next,	and	peopled	towns	flie	falls,
	And	breathe",	a	burning	plague	among	their	wall*.
	When	Athens	(he	beheld,	for	arts	renown'd,
	With	peace	made	happy,	and	withjalcnty	crown'd,
	Scirce	could	the	hideous	fiend	fron,	tears	*"	u	-
	To	find	cut'	nothing	that	cleferv'd	a	tew..


THE	WORKS	OF	ADDIS	ON.
	Th'	apartment	now	fhe	cntcr'd,	where	at	reft
	Aglaurc*	lay,	with	gentle	flecp	oppreft.
	To	execute	Minerva's	dire	command,
	She	ftrok'd	the	virgin	with	her	canktr'd	hand,
	Then	prickly	thorns	into	her	bread	coiivey'd,
	That	flung	to	tnadnefs	the	devoted	maid	:
	Her	fubtle	venom	ftill	improves	the	fmart,
	Frets	in	the	blood,	and	fefters	in	the	heart.
	To	make	the	work	more	fure,	a	fccne	fhe	drew,
	And	plac'd	before	the	dreaming	virgin's	view
	Her	fifter's	marriage,	and	her	glorious	fate	;
	Th'	imaginary	bride	appears	in	ftate	;
	The	bridegroom	with	unwonted	beauty	glows	;
	For	envy	magnifies	whate'er	fhe	{hows.
	Full	of	the	dream,	Aglatiros	pin'd,away
	In	tears	all	night,	in	darknefs	all	the	day	;
	Confum'd	like	ice,	that	juft	begins	to	run,
	When	feebly	fmitten	by	the	diftant	fun	;
	Or	like	unwholefome	weeds,	that	fet	on	fire
	Are	flowly	wafted,	and	in	fmoke	expire.
	Given	up	to	envy	(for	in	every	thought
	The	thorns,	the	venom,	and	the	vifion	wrought)
	Oft	did	(he	call	on	death,	as	oft	decreed,
	Rather	than	fee	her	filler's	wifli	fucceed,
	To	tell	her	awful	father	what	had	paft	:
	At	length	before	the	door	herfelf	fhe	caft;
	And,	fitting	on	the	ground	with	fullcn	pride,
	A	paffage	to	the	love-fickgod	deny'd.
	The	god	carefs'd,	and	for	ai'miflion	pray'd,
	And	footh'd	in	fofteft	words	th'	envenom'd	maid.
	In	vain	he	footh'd;	"	Be	gone!"	the	maid	re
	plies,
	tc	Or	here	I	keep	my	fe^t,	and	never	rife."
	"	Then	keep	thy	feat	for	ever,"	cries	the	god,
	And	touch'd	the	door,	wide	opening	to	his	j	od.
	Fain	would	fhe	rife,	and	flop	him,	but	fhe	found
	Her	trunk	too	heavy	to	forlake	the	ground	;
	Her	joints	are	ail	benumb'd,	her	hands	are	pale,
	And	marble	now	appears	in	every	nail.
	As	when	a	cancer	in	the	body	feeds,
	And	gradual	death	from	limb	to	limb	proceeds	;
	So	does	the	chiilnefs	to	each	vital	part
	Spread	by	degrees,	and	creeps	into	her	hesirt	;
	Till	hardening	every	where,	and	fpeechlcfs	grown,
	She	fitsunmov'd,	and	freezes	to	a	ftone.
	But	ftill	her	envious	hue	and	lullen	mien
	Are	in	the	fedcntary	figure	feen.
	EUROPA'S	RAPE.
	WHEN	now	the	god	his	fury	had	allay'd,
	And	taken	vengeance	of	the	Itubborn	maid,
	From	where	the	bright	Athenian	turrets	rife
	He	mounts	aloft,	and	reafcends	the	ikies.
	Jove	faw	him	enter	the	fublime	abodes,
	And,	as	he	mix'd	among	the	crowd	of	gods,
	Beckon'd	him	out,	and	drew	him	from	the	reft,
	And	in	foft	whifpers	thus	his	will	expreft	:
	"	My	trufty	Heime*,	by	whofe	ready	aid
	"	Thy	Sire's	commands	are	through	the	w
	"	convey'd,
	"	Relume	thy	\vings,	exert	their	utr.ofr.	force,
	*'	And	to	the	wall,	of	Sidon	fpeed	thy	courfe	;
	orld
	"	There	find	a	herd	of	heifers	wandering	o'er
	"	The	neighbouring	hill,	and	drive	them	to	the
	"	fhore."
	Thus	fpokc	the	god,	concealing	his	intent.
	The	rrufty	Hermes	on	his	meffagc	went,
	And	found	the	herd	of	heifers	wandering	o'er
	A	neighbouring	hill,	and	drove	them	to	the
	fhore	;
	Where	the	king's	daughter	with	a	lovely	train
	Of	fellow-nymphs,	was	fportinp	on	the	plain.
	The	dignity	*>f	empire	laid	afide
	(For	love	but	ill	agrees	with	kingly	pride)	;
	The	ruler	of	the	Ikies,	the	thundering	god,
	Who	makes	the	world's	foundations	with	a	nod,
	Among	a	herd	of	lowing	heifers	ran,
	Friflc'd	in	a	bull,	and	bellow'd	o'er	the	plain.
	Large	rolls	of	fat	about	his	fhoulders	clung,
	And	from	his	neck	the	double	dewlap	hung.
	His	{kin	was	whiter	than	the	fnow	thar	lies
	Unfully'd	by	the	breath	of	fouthcrn	fides;
	Small	fhining	horns	on	his	curl'd	forehead	ftand.
	As	turn'd	and	polifh'd	by	the	workman's	hand	;
	His	eye-	balls	roll'd,	not	formidably	bright,
	But	gaz'd	and	languifh'd	with	a	gentle	light.
	His	every	look	was	peaceful,	and	exprcft.
	The	foftnefs	of	the	lover	in	the	beaft.
	Agenor's	royal	daughter,	ns	fhe	play'd
	Among	the	fields	the	milk-white	bull	furrey'd.
	And	view'd	his	fpotlefs	body	with	delight,
	And	at	a	diflance	kept	him	in	her	fight.
	At	length	fhe	pluck'd	the	rifmg	flowers,	and	fed
	The	gentle	beaft,	and	fondly	ftrok'd	his	head.
	He	flood	well	pleas'd	to	touch	the	charming	fair,
	But	hardly	could	confine	his	pleafure	there.
	And	now	he	wantons	o'er	the	neighbouring	ftrand,
	Now	rolUhis	body	on	the	yellow	fand	;
	And	now,	perceiving	all	her	fears	decay'd,
	Comes	toffing	forward	to	the	royal	maid	;
	Gives	her	his	brcaft	to	ftrokc,	and	downward
	turns
	His	grifly	brow,	and	gently	ftoops	his	horns.
	In	flowery	wreaths	the	royal	virgin	dreft
	His	bending	horns,	and	kindly	clapt	his	breaft.
	Till	now	grown	wanton,	and	devoid	of	fear,
	N<:t	knowing	that	he	preft	the	thunderer,
	She	plac'd	htrfelf	upon	his	back,	and	rode
	O'er	fields	and	meadows,	feated	on	the	god.
	He	gently	march'd	along,	and	by	degrees
	Left	the	dry	meadow,	and	approach'd	the	fea;
	Where	now	he	dips	his	hoofs,	and	wets	his	thighs,
	Now	plunges	in,	and	carries	off	the	ptize.
	The	frighted	nymph	looks	backward	on	the	fhore,
	And	hear*	the	tumbling	billows	round	her	roar	j
	But	ftill	flie	holds	him	faft	one	haud	is	bcrne
	Upon	his	bark	;	the	other	grafps	a	horn	:
	Her	train	of	ruffling	garment	flies	behird,
	Swells	in	the	air,	and	hovers	in	the	wind.
	Through	ftorms	andtempeftshc	the	virgin	bor?.
	And	lands	her	fafe	on	the	Didkan	fhore;
	Where	now,	in	his	divined	form	array'd,
	It)	his	true	fliape	he	captivates	the	maid	:
	Who	gazes	on	him,	and	with	wondering	eyes
	Beholds	the	new	majcftic	figure	rife,
	His	glowing	features,	and	celeflial	light,
	Ar.d	all	the	God	diicovei'd	to	her	fight.


TRANSLATIONS.
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	OVID'S	METAMORPHOSES,
	BOOK	III.
	THE	STORY	OF	CADMUS.
	WHEN	now	Agenor	had	his	daughter	loft,
	He	fent	hisfon	to	fearch	on	every	coaft	;
	And	fternly	bid	him	to	his	arms	reftore
	The	darling	maid,	or	fee	his	face	no	more.
	But	live	an	exile	in	a	foreign	clime	;
	Thus	was	the	father	pious	to	a	crime.
	The	reftlefs	youth	fearch'd	all	the	world	around	:
	But	how	can	Jove	in	his	amours	be	found	?
	When.itir'd	at	length	with	unfuccefsful	toil,
	To	fhun	his	angry	fire	and	native	foil,
	He	goes	a	fuppliant	to	the	Delphic	dome	;
	There	afks	the	god	what	new-appointed	home
	Should	end	his	wanderings,	and	his	toils	relieve.
	The	Delphic	oracles	this	anfwer	give	:
	"	Behold	among	the	fields	a	lonely	cow,
	"	Unworn	with	yokes,	unbroken	to	the	plough	;
	"	Mark	well	the	place	where	firft	fhe	lays	her
	"	down,	[town,
	"	There	meafure	out	thy	walls,	and	build	thy
	"	And	from	thy	guide	Boeotia	call	the	land,
	"	In	which	the	deftin'd	walla	and	town	fhall
	"	ftand."
	No	fooner	had	he	left	the	dark	abode,
	Big	with	the	promife	of	the	Delphic	god,
	When	in	the	fields	the	fatal	cow	be	view'd,	f
	Nor	gall'd	with	yokes,	nor	worn	with	fervi-/
	tude	;	f
	Her	gently	at	a	diftance	he	purfu'd	;	J
	And,	as	he	walk'd	aloof,	in	filence	pray'd
	To	the	great	power	whofe	counfels	he	obey'd.
	Her	way	through	flowery	Panope	fhe	t	ok,
	And	now,	Cephifus,	crofs	the	filver	brook	;
	When	to	the	heavens	her	fpacious	front	fhe	rais'd,
	And	bellow'd	thrice,	then	backward	turning	gaz'd
	On	thofe	behind,	till	on	the	deftin'd	place
	She	ftoop'd,	and	couch'd	amid	the	rifing	grafs.
	Cadmus	falutes	the	foil,	and	gladly	hails
	The	new-found	mountains,	and	the	namelefs	vales,
	And	thanks	the	gods,	and	turns	about	his	eye
	TiWee	his	new	dominions	idtnd	him	lie	:
	Then	fends	his	fetvants	to	a	neighbouring	grove
	For	living	ftreams,	a	facrifice	to	Jove.
	O'er	the	wide	plain	there	rofe	a	fhady	wood
	Of	aged	trees	;	in	its	dark	bofom	ftood
	A	bufliy	thicket,	pathlefs	and	unworn,
	O'er	-run	with	brambles,	and	perplex'd	with	thorn.
	Amidft	the	brake	a	hollow	den	was	found,
	With	rocks	and	fhelving	arches	vaulted	round.
	Deep	in	the	dreary	den,	conceal'	d	from	day,
	Sacred	to	Mars,	a	mighty	dragon	lay,
	Bloated	w.'th	poifon	to	a	monftrous	fize;
	fire	broke	in	flafhes	when	he	glanc'd	his	eyes	:
	His	towering	creft	was	glorious	to	behold,
	His	fhoulders	and	his	fides	were	fcal'd	with	gold	;
	Three	tongues	he	brandifh'd	when	he	charg'd
	his	foes	:
	His	teeth	Uood	jaggy	in	three	dreadful	rows.
	The	Tyrian*	in	the	den	for	water	fought,
	And	with	their	urns	explor'd	the	hollow	vault	;
	from	fide	to	fide	their	empty	urns	rebound,
	And	roufe	the	fleepy	ferpent	with	the	found.
	Straight	he	beflirs	him,	and	is	feen	to	rife	;
	And	now	with	dreadful	hiffings	fills	the	fkies,	i
	And	darts	his	forky	tongue,	and	rolls	his	glar-	1
	ing	eyes.
	The	Tyrians	drop	their	veflels	in	the	fright,
	All	pale	and	trembling	at	the	hideous	fight.
	Spire	above	fpire	upreard	in	air	he	ftood,
	And,	gazing	round	him,	verlook'd	the	wood	:
	Then	floating	on	the	ground,	in	circles	roll'd	;
	Then	leap'd	upon	them	in	a	mighty	fold.
	Of	fuch	a	bulk,	and	fuch	a	monftrous	fize,
	The	ferpent	in	the	polar	circle	lies.
	That	ftretches	over	half	the	northern	fkies.
	In	vain	the	Tyrians	on	their	arms	rely,
	In	vain	attempt	to	fight,	in	vain	to	fly	:
	All	their	endeavours	and	their	hopes	are	vain	;
	Some	die	entangled	in	the	winding	train	;
	Some	are	devour'd	;	or	feel	a	loathfome	death,
	Swoln	up	with	blafts	of	peftilential	breath.
	And	now	the	fcorching	fun	was	mounted	h	igk
	In	all	its	luftre	to	the	noon-day	fky	;
	When,	anxious	for	his	friends,	and	fill'd	with
	cares,
	To	fearch	the	woods	th'	impatient	chief	prepares^
	A	lion's	hide	around	his	loins	he	wore,
	The	well-peis'd	javelin	to	the	field	he	bore
	Inur'd	to	blood	;	the	far-deftroying	dart,
	And,	the	beft	weapon,	an	undaunted	heart.
	Soon	as	the	youth	approach'd	the	fatal	place,
	He	faw	his	fervants	breathlefs	on	the	grafs	;
	The	fcaly	foe	amid	their	corpfe	he	view'd,
	Bafking	at	eafe,	and	feafting	in	their	blood.
	"	Such	friends,"	he	cries,	"	deferv'd	a	longer
	ct	date	:
	"	But	Cadmus	wifl	revenge,	or	fhare	their	fate."
	Then	heav'd	a	ftone,	and	rifing	to	the	throw,
	He	feat	it	in	a	whirlwind	at	the	foe	:
	A	tower,	affaulted	by	fo	rude	a	ftroke,
	With	all	its	lofty	battlements	had	fhook	;
	But	nothing	here	th*	unwieldy	rock	avails,
	Rebounded	harmlefs	from	the	plaited	fcales,
	That,	firmly	join'd,	preferv'd	him	from	a	wounJ,
	With	native	armour	crafted	all	aronnd.
	With	more	fuccefs	the	dart	unerring	flew,
	t	Which	at	his	back	the	raging	warrior	threw;
	Amid	the	plaited	fcaled	it	took	its	courfe,
	And	in	the	fpinal	marrow	fpent	its	force.
	The	monfter	hifs'd	aloud,	and	rag'd	in	vain,
	And	writh'd	his	body	to	and	fro	with	pain	;
	And	bit	the	fpear,	and	wrench'd	the	wood	away	;
	The	point	ftill	bnried	in	the	marrow	lay.
	And	now	his	rage,	incrcafing	with	his	pain,
	Reddens	his	eyes,	and	beats	in	every	vein	;
	Churn'd	in	his	teeth	the	foamy	venom	rofe,
	Whilft	from	his	mouth	a	blaft	of	vapours	flowsj
	Such	as	th*	infernal	Stygian	waters	caft	:
	The	plants	around	him	wither	in	the	blaft.
	Now	in	a	maze	of	rings	he	lies	enroll'd,
	Now	all	nnravcl'd,	and	without	a	fold;
	Now,	like	a	torrent,	with	a	mighty	force
	Bears	down	the	ibrefl	in	his	boiftercrus	courfe,


THE	WORKS	OF	ADD	IS	ON.
	Cadmus	gave	back,	and	on	the	lion's	fpoil
	Suftaiu'd	the	fhock,	then	forc'd	him	to	recoil;
	The	pointed	javelin	warded	off"	his	rage	:
	Mad	with	his	pains,	and	furious	to	engage,
	The	ferpent	champs	the	fteel,	and	bite*	the	fpcar,
	Till	blood	and	venom	all	the	point	befmear.
	But	ftill	the	hurt	he	yet	receiv'd	was	flight	;
	For,	whilft	the	champion	with	redoubled	might
	Strikes	home	the	javeliu,	his	retiring	foe
	Shrinks	from	the	wound,	and	difappoints	the	blow.
	The	dauntlefs	hero	ftill	purfues	his	ftroke,
	And	preffes	forward,	till	a	knotty	oak
	itetards	his	foe,	and	flops	him	in	the	rear	;
	Fall	in	his	throat	he	plung'd	the	fatal	fpeaf,
	That	in	th'	extended	neck	a	paffage	found,
	And	pierc'd	the	folid	timber	through	the	wound.
	Fix'd	to	the	reeling	trunk,	with	many	a	ftroke
	Of	his	huge	tail,	he	lafh'd	the	fturdy	oak	;
	Till,	fpent	with	toil,	and	labouring	hard	for
	breath,
	He	now	lay	twifting	in	the	pangs	of	death.
	Cadmus	beheld	him	wallow	in	a	flood
	Of	fwimming	poifon,	intermii'd	with	blond	;
	When	fuddenly	a	fpeech	was	heard	from	high,
	(The	fpeech	was	heard,	nor	was	the	fpeaker	nigh)
	"	Why	doft	thou	thus	with	fecrt	pleafure	fee,
	'	inflating	man	!	what	thou	thyfelf	ffialt	be	?"
	Aftonifli'd	at	the	voice,	he	flood	amaz'd,
	And	all	around	with	inward	horror	gaz'd	:
	When	Pallas	fwift	defcending	from	the	ffcies,
	Pallas,	the	guardian	of	the	bold	and	wife,
	Bids	him	plow	up	the	field,	and	fcatter	round
	The	dragon's	teeth	o'er	all	the	furrow'd	ground	;
	Theh	tells	the	youth	how	to	his	wondering	eyes
	Embattled	armies	from	the	field	fhould	rife.
	He	fbws	the	teeth	at	Pallas's	command,
	And	flings	the	future	people	from	his	hand.
	The	clods	grow	warm,	and	tremble	where	he	fows	:
	And	now	the	pointed	fpears	advance	in	rows	;
	Now	nodding	plumes	appear,	and	fhining	crefts,
	Now	the	broad	fhoulders	and	the	riung	breafts	:
	O'er	all	the	field	the	breathing	harvcft	fwarnas,
	A	growing	hoft,	a	crop	of	men	and	arms.
	So	through	the	parting	ftage	a	figure	rears
	Its	body	up,	and	limb	by	limb	appears
	By	juft	degrees	;	till	all	the	man	arife,
	And	in	his	full	proportion	ftrikcs	the	eyes.
	Cadmus,	furpris'd,	and	ftartled	at	the	fight
	Of	his	new	foes,	prepar'd	himfelf	for	fight	:
	When	one	cry'd	out,	"	Forbear,	fond	man,	forbear
	"	To	mingle	in	.a	blind	promifcuous	war."
	Thisfaid,	he	ftruck	his	brother	to	the	ground,
	Himfelf	expiring	by	another's	wound	;
	Nor	did	the	third	his	conqueft	long	furvive,
	Dying	ere	fcarce	he	had	begun	to	live.
	The	dire	example	ran	through	all	the	field,
	Till	heaps	of	brothers	were	by	brothers	kill'd	;
	The	furrows	fwam	in	blood	:	and	only	five
	Of	all	the	vaft	increafe	were	left	alive.
	Echioh	one,	at	Pallas'	s	command,
	Let	fall	the	guiltlefs	weapon	from	his	hand	;
	And	with	the	reft	a	peaceful	treaty	makes,	-
	Whom	Cadmus	as	his	friends	and	partners	takes	;
	So	founds	a	city	on	the	promis'd	earth,
	And	givfcs	hi?	new	Boeotian	empire	birth.
	Here	Cadmus	reign'd	;	and	now	one	would	hate
	guefs'd
	The	royal	founder	in	his	exile	bleft	:
	Long	did	he	live	within	his	new	abodes,
	Ally'd	by	marriage	to	the	de'athlefs	gods	;
	And,	in	a	fruitful	wife's	embraces	old,
	A	long	increafe	of	children's	children	told	:
	But	no	frail	man,	however	great	or	high,
	Can	be	concluded	bleft	before	he	die.
	A<5heon	was	the	firft	of	all	his	race,
	Who	griev'd	his	grandfire	in	his	borrowed	face	;
	Condcmn'd	by	ftern	Diana	to	bemoan
	The	branching	horns,	and	viiage	not	his	own	;
	To	fhun	his	once-lov'd	dogs,	to	bound	away,
	And	from	their	huntfman	to	become	their	prey.
	And	yet	confider	why	the	change	was	wrought,
	You'll	find	it	his	misfortune,	not	his	fault;
	Or	if	a	fault,	it	was	the	fault	of	chance	:
	For	how	can	guilt	proceed	from	ignorance	?
	THE	TRANSFORMATION	OF	ACTION
	INTO	A	STAG.
	IN	a	fair	chace	a	fhady	mountain	flood,
	Well	ftor'd	with	game,	and	mark'd	with	trails	of
	blood.
	Here	did	the	huntfmen	till	the	heat	of	day
	Purl'ue	the	flag,	and	load	themfclves	with	prey	;
	When	thus	Aflson	calling	to	the	reft	:
	*	My	friends,"	fays	he,	"	our	fpnrt	is	at	the	heft.
	1	The	fun	is	high	advanc'd,	and	downward	fheda,
	'	His	burning	beams	directly	on	our	heads';
	Then	by	confeut	abftain	from	further	fpoils,
	'	Call	off	the	dogs,	and	gather	up	the	toils	;
	'	And	ere	to	morrow's	fun	begins	his	race,
	"	Take	the.	cool	morning	to	renew	the	chace."
	They	all	confent,	and	in	a	cheerful	train	~)
	The	jolly	huntfmen,	loaden	with	the	flain,
	Return	in	triumph	from	the	fultry	plain.	j
	Down	in	a	vale	with	wine	and	cyprcfs	clad,
	Refrefh'd	with	gentle	winds,	and	brown	with	fhade,
	The	chafte	Diana's	private	haunt,	there	flood
	Full	in	the	centre	of	the	darkfome	wood
	A	fpacious	grotto,	all	around	o'er-grown
	With	hoary	mofs,	an	arch'd	with	pumice	done	:
	From	out	its	rocky	ckfts	the	waters	flow,
	And	trickling	fwell	into	a	lake	below.
	Nature	had	every	where	fi>	play'd	her	part,
	That	every	where	fhe	feem'd	to	vie	with	art.
	Here	the	bright	goddefs,	toil'd	and	ch-f'd	with
	heat,
	Was	wont	to	bathe	her	in	the	cool	retreat.
	Here	did	fhe	now	with	all	her	train	rcfort,
	Pa'nting	with	heat,	and	breathkfs	from	the	fport	;
	Her	armour-bearer	laid	her	bow	aiide,
	Some	loo.s'd	her	fandals,	fome	her	veil	unty'J	;
	Each	bufy	nymph	her	proper	part	undreft	;
	While	Crocale,	more	handy	than	the	reft,
	Gather'd	her	flowing	hair,	an	J	in	a	noof'e
	Bound	it	together,	wliillt	her	own	hung	loofi.
	Five	of	the	more	ignoble	fort	by	turns
	Fetch	up	the	wattr,	and	unlade	tleir	urr.s.


TRANSLATIONS.
	Now	all	undreft	the	fhining	goddefs	ftood,
	When	young	Afftaeon,	wilder'd	in	the	wood,
	To	the	cool	grot	by	his	hard	fate	betray'd,
	The	fountains	fill'd	with	naked	nymphs	furvey'd,
	The	frighted	virgins	fhriek'd	at	the	furprife
	(The	foreft	echo'd	with	their	piercing	cries).
	Then	in	a	huddle	round	their	goddefs	preil	:
	She,	proudly	eminent	above	the	reft,
	With	bluihes	glow'd	;	fuch	blufhcs	as	adorn
	The	ruddy	welkin,	or	the	purple	morn	:
	And	though	the	crowdiug	nymph*	her	body	hide,
	Half	backward	fluunk,	and	view'd	him	from	afide.
	Sur^ris'd,	at	firft	flie	would	have	fnatch'd	her	bow,
	But	fees	the	circling	waters	round	her	flow	;
	Thefe	in	the	hollow	of	her	hand	fhe	took,
	And	dafh'd	them	in	his	face,	while	thus	fhe	fpoke	:
	"	Tell,	if	thou	canft,	the	wondrous	fight	difclos'd	;
	"	A	goddefs	naked	to	thy	view	expos'd	"
	This	faid,	the	man	begun	to	disappear
	By	flow	degrees,	and	ended	in	a	deer.
	A	rifing	horn	on	either	brow	he	wears,
	And	ftretches	out	his	neck,	and	pricks	his	ears	;
	Rough	is	his	{kin,	with	fudden	hairs	o'er-grown,
	His	bofom	pants	with	fears	before	unknown.
	Transform'd	at	length,	he	flies	away	in	liafle,
	And	wonder*	why	he	flies	a%ay	fo	faft
	But	as	by	chance,	within	a	neighbouring	brook,
	He	faw	his	branching	horns	and	aiter'd	look,
	Wretched	Acftxon	!	in	a	doleful	tone
	He	try'd	to	fpeak,	but	only	gave	a	groan	;
	And	as	he	wept,	within	the	watery	glafs	}
	He	faw	the	big	round	drops,	with	filent	pace,	>
	Run	trickling	dovvn	a	favage	hairy	face.	}
	What	ftiould	he	do	?	Or	feek	his	old	abodes,
	Or	herd	among	the	deer,	and	fculk	in	woods	?
	Here	fliame	difluades	him,	there	his	fear	prevails,
	And	each	by	turns	his	aching	heart	afiails.
	As	he	thus	ponders,	he	behind	him	fpies
	His	opening	hounds,	and	now	he	hears	their	cries	:
	A	generous	pack,	or	to	maintain	the	chace,
	Or	fnufFthe	vapour	from	the	fcented	grafs.
	He	bounded	off	with	fear,	and	fwiftly	ran
	O'er	craggy	mountains,	and	the	flowery	plain;
	Through	brakes	and	thickets	furc'd	his	way	and
	flew
	Through	many	a	ring,	where	once	he	did	purfue.
	In	vain	he	oft	end^avour'd	to	proclaim
	His	new	misfortune,	and	to	tell	his	name	;
	Nor	vdce	nor	words	the	brutal	tongue	fupplies;'
	From	fliouting	men,	and	hoi
	Deafen'd	and	ftunn'd	with
	to	tell	his	name;
	brutal	tongue	fupplies;"^
	lorns,	and	dogs,	he	flies,	(
	fhh	their	promifcuous	f
	When	now	the	fleeteft	of	the	pack,	that	prefl
	Clofe	at	his	heels,	and	fprung	before	the	reft,
	Had	faften'd	on	him,	fbaight	another	pair
	Hung	on	his	wounded	haunch,	and	held	him	there,
	Till	all	the	pack	came	up,	and	every	hound	T
	Tore	the	fad	huntfnan	grovelling	on	the	ground,	S-
	Who	now	appear'd	but	one	continued	wound,	j
	With	dropping	tears	his	bitter	late	he	moans,
	And	fills	the	mountain	with	his	dying	groans.
	His	fervants	with	a	piteous	look	he	fpies,
	And	turns	about	his	fupplic.uing	eyes.
	His	fervants,	ignorant	of	what	had	chanc'd,
	With	ea^er	hade	and	joyful	fhouts	advanc'd,
	VOL.	VII.
	And	call'd	their	lord	Aclaon	to	the	game;
	He	fhook	his	head	in	anfwer	to	the	name	;
	He	heard,	but	wifli'd	he	had	indeed	been	gone,
	Or	only	to	have	ftood	a	looker-on.
	But,	to	his	grief,	he	finds	himfelf	too	near,
	And	ftels	his	ravenous	dogs	with	fury	tear
	Their	wretched	matter	panting	in	a	deer.
	I
	THE	BIRTH	OF	BACCHUS.
	ACTJCON'S	fufferings,	and	Diana's	rage,
	Did	all	the	thoughts	of	men	and	gods	engage	j
	Some	call'd	the	evils,	which	Diana	wrought,
	Too	great,	and	difproportion'd	to	the	fault	;
	Others	again	efteem'd	Adtxon's	woes
	Fit	for	a	virgin	goddefs	to	impofe.
	The	hearers	into	different	parts	divide,.
	And	reafons	are	produc'd	on	either	fide.
	Juno	alone,	of	all	that	heard	the	news,
	Nor	would	condemn	the	goddefs,	nor	excufe	:
	She	heeded	not	the	juftice	of	the	de^d,
	But	j'>y'd	to	fee	the	race	of	Cadmus	bleed;
	For	ftill	file	kept	Europa	in	her	mind,
	And,	for	her	fake,	detefted	all	her	kind.
	Befides,	to	aggravate	her	hate,	fhe	heard
	How	bemele,	to	Jove's	c:n	brace	preferr'd,
	Was	now	grown	big	with	an	immortal	load,
	And	carry	'd	in	her	womb	a	future	god.
	Thus	terribly	incens'd,	the	goddefs	broke
	To	fudden	fury,	and	abruptly	fpoke	:	g
	"	Are	my	reproaches	of	fo	fmall	a	force	f
	"	'	Fis	time	I	then	purfue	another	courfe	:
	'	It	is	decreed	the	guilty	wretch	fhall	die,
	'	If	I'm	indeed	the	miftrefs	of	the	iky	;
	If	rightly	ftyl'd	among	the	powers	above
	'	The	wife	and	fifter	of	the	thundering	Jove
	'	(	And	none	can	fure	a	fitter's	right	deny)	;
	'	It	is	decreed	the	guilty	wretch	fhall	die.
	'	She	boafts	an	honour	I	can	hardly	claim	;
	'	Pregnant	flie	rifes	to	a	mother's	name	;
	'	While	proud	and	vain	fhe	triumphs	in	her	Jove,
	'	And	fliows	the	glorious	tokens	of	his	love	t
	But	if	I'm	ftill	the	miftrefs	of	the	flcies,
	*	By	her	own	lover	the	fund	beauty	dies."
	This	laid,	defcending	in	a	yellow	cloud,
	Before	the	gates	of	Semcle	fhe	ftood.
	Old	Beroe's	decrepit	ftiape	fhe	wea/s,
	Her	wrinkled	Vifage,	and	her	hoary	hairs;
	Whilft	in	her	trembling	gait	fhe	totters	on,
	And	learns	to	tattle	in	the	nurfe's	tone.
	The	goddefs,	thus	difguis'd	in	age,	beguil'd
	With	pleafing	ftories	her	falfe	fofter-child.
	Much	did	fhe	talk	of	love,	and	when	flie	came
	To	mention	to	the	nymph	her	lover's	name,
	Fetching	a	figh,	and	holding	down	her	head,
	"	'Tis	well,"	fays	fhe,	"	if	all	be	true	that's	faid.
	"	But	truft	me,	child,	I'm	much	inclin'd	to	fear
	"	Some	counterfeit	in	this	your	Jupiter.
	"	Many	an	honeft	well	defigningmaid
	"	Has	been	by	thefe	pretended	gods	betray'd.
	"	But	if	he	he	indeed	the	thundering	Jove,
	"	Bid	him,	when	next	he	courts	the	rites	of	love^
	O


POEM
	Perhaps	the	beauties	of	thy	Spartan	dame,
	Who	(long	1	defrauded	of	the	public	fame)
	Shall,	with	fuperior	majcfty	avow'd,
	Shine	like	a	goddefs	breaking	from	a	cloud;
	Once	more	may	reinftate	her	on	the	dage,
	Her	adlion	graceful,	and	divine	her	rage.
	Arts	have	tlieir	empires,	and,	like	other	dates,
	Their	rife	and	fall	are	govern'd	by	the	fates	:
	They,	when	their	period's	meafar'd	out	by	time,
	Transplant	their	laurels	to	another	clime.
	The	Grecian	mufc	once	fill'd	with	loud	alarms
	The	court	of	heaven,	and	clad	the	gods	in	arms;
	The	trumpet	lilent,	humbly	ihe	effay'd
	The	Doric	reed,	and	fung	beneath	the	fhade	;
	lixtoll'd	a	frugal	life,	and	taught	'he	(wains
	'i	'	obierve	the	feafons,	and	manure	the	plains	;
	Momeiimes	in	warbl&d	hymns	fhe	paid	her	vow,
	Or	wove	Olympic	wreaths	for	Theron's	brow	;
	Sometimes	on	flowery	beds	fhe	lay	fupine,
	And	gave	her	thoughts	a	loofe	to	love	and	wine	;
	Or	in	her	fable	ftole	and	bufkins	drefs'd,
	Show'd	vice	enthron'd,	and	virtuous	kings	op-
	prefs'd.
	The	nymph	ftill	fair,	however	pad	her	bloom,
	From	Greece	at	length	was	led	in	chain-;	to	Rome	:
	\Vhilfl	wars	abroad,	and	civil	difcord	reign'd,
	Silent	the	beauteous	captive	long	remain'd;
	That	interval	employ'd	her	timely	care
	To	ftudy,	and	refine	the	language	there.
	She	views	with	anguifh	on	the	Roman	dage
	The	Grecian	beauties	weep,	the	warriors	rage	:
	But	moft	thofe	fcenes	delight	th'	immortal	maid,
	Which	Scipio	had	revh'd,	and	Rofcius	play'd.
	Thence	to	the	pleadings	of	the	gown	fhe	goes
	(For	Themis	then	could	fpeak	in	polifh'd	profe)	:
	Charm'd	at	the	bar,	amid	th'	attentive	throng,
	bhe	blefs'd	the	Syren-power	of	Tally's	tongue.
	But	when,	Odavius,	thy	fuccefsful	fword
	Was	fheath'd,	and	univerfal	peace	reftor'd,
	Fond	of	a	monarch,	to	the	court	fhe	came,
	And	ch(jfe	a	numerous	choir	to	chant	his	fame.
	Firft	from	the	green	retreats	and	lowly	plains,
	Her	Virgil	foar'd	fublime	in	epic	drains	;
	His	theme	fo	glorious,	and	his	flight	fo	true,
	She	with	Maionian	garlands	grac'd	his	brow;
	Tnught	Horace	then	to	touch	the	Lefbian	lyre,
	And	Sappho's	fweetnel's	join'd	with	Pindar's	fire,
	By	Csefar's	bounty	all	the	tuneful	train
	Enjoy'd,	and	fung	of	Saturn's	goldan	reign;
	No	genius	then	was	left	t	live	on	praife,
	Or	curs'd	the	barren	ornament	of	bays	;
	On	all	her	fons	he	cad	a	kind	regard,
	Nor	could	they	write	fo	faft	as	he	reward.
	The	mule,	indudrious	to	record	his	name
	In	the	bright	annals	of	eternal	fame,
	Profufe	of	favours,	lavifh'd	all	her	ftore,
	And	for	one	rdgn	made	many	ag^s	poor.
	Now	from	the	rugged	North	unnumber'd	fttfarms
	Invade	the	Latian	cor.ds	with	barbarous	arms;
	A	race	unpolilh'd,	but	inur'd	to	toil,
	Rough	as	their	heaven,	and	barren	as	their	foil.
	Thefe	locusts	every	fpringing	art	dcftroy'd,
	And	loft	humanity	before	them	dy'd.
	Picture	no	more	maintain'd	the	doubtful	drife
	Wirh	nature's	fctnes,	nor	gave	the	canvas	life	;
	>Jor	fculpture	exercis'd	her	Ikill,	beneath
	-fer	forming	hand	to	make	the	marble	breathe:
	truck	with	defpair,	they	ftood	devoid	of	thought,
	:fs	lively	than	the	works	themfelves	hud	wrought.
	)n	thole	twin-	fillers	fuch	difaders	came,
	'hough	colours	and	proportions	are	the	fame
	n	every	age	and	clime;	their	beauties	known
	o	every	language,	and	confin'd	by	none.
	lut	fate	lefs	freedom	to	the	mufe	affords,
	nd	checks	her	genius	with	the	choice	of	words	:
	'o	paint	her	thoughts,	the	diction	mult	be	found
	Of	cafy	grandeur,	and	harmonious	found,
	'hus	when	flis	rais'd	her	voice	divinely	great
	fingthe	founder	of	the	Roman	date	;
	The	language	was	adapted	t	the	fong,
	Sweet	and	fublime,	with	native	beauty	ftrong	:
	Jut	when	the	Goths	infulring	troops	appear'd,
	Such	diffonance	the	trembling	virgin	heard	!
	Jhang'd	to	a	fvvan,	from	Tyber's	troubled	dreams
	She	wing'd	her	flight,	and	fought	the	filvet
	Thames.
	Long	in	the	melancholy	grove	fhe	daid,
	And	taught	the	penfive	Druids	in	the	fliade	;
	n	f;lemn	and	inftrusftive	notes	they	fung
	From	whence	the	beauteous	frame	of	nature	fprung.
	Who	polifh'd	all	the	radiant	orbs	above,
	And	in	bright	order	made	the	planets	move	;
	Whence	thunders	roar,	and	frightful	meteors	fly,
	And	comets	roll	unbounded	through	the	fky	;
	Who	wing'd	the	winds,	and	gave	the	dreams	to
	flow,
	And	rais'd	the	rocks,	and	fpread	the	lawns	below	;
	Whence	the	gay	fpring	exults	in	flowery	pride,
	And	autumn	with	the	bleeding	grape	is	dy'd	;
	Whence	fummer	funs	imbrown	the	labouring
	fwains,
	And	fhivcring	winter	pines	in	icy	chains	:
	And	prais'd	the	Power	Supreme,	nor	dar'd	ad
	vance
	So	vain	a	theory	as	that	of	chance.
	But	in	this	ifle	fhe	found	the	nymphs	fo	fair,	~*
	She	chang'd	her	hand,	and	chofe	a	iofter	air,	S-
	And	love	and	beauty	next	became	her	care.	j
	Greece,	her	lov'd	Country,	ouly	could	afford
	A	Venus	and	a	Helen	to	record	;
	A	thoufand	radiant	nymphs	fhe	here	beheld,
	Who	match'd	the	goddefs,	and	the	queen	excell'd.
	"I"'	immortalize	their	loves	fhe	long	cffay'd,
	But	ftill	the	tongue	her	geneious	toil	betray'd.	*
	Chaucer	had	all	that	beauty	could	infpire,
	And	Surrey's	numbers	glow'd	with	warm	defire	:
	Both	now	are	priz'd	by	few,	unknown	to	mod,
	Becaufe	the	thoughts	are	in	the	language	loft.
	Even	Spcnfer's	pearls	in	muddy	waters	lie,
	Yet	foon	their	beams	attract	the	diver's	eye	:
	Rich	Was	their	imagery,	till	time	dcfac'd
	The	curious	works	;	but	Waller	came	at	lad.
	Waller,	the	mufe	with	heavenly	verfe	fupplies,
	Smooth	as	the	fair,	and	fparkling	as	their	eyes;
	"	All	but	the	nymph	.that	fiiould	redrtfs	his	wrong,
	"	Attend	his	paflion,	and	approve	his	fong."
	But	when	this	Orpht-.us	funk,	and	hoary	age
	Supprefs'd	the	lover's	and	ihe	poet's	rage,
	To	Granville	his	melodious	hire	{he	gave,
	Cranville,	whofe	faithful	vene	is	beauty's	Cave	;
	Tt	ii


THE	WORKS	OF	YAtfcEN.
	What	nobler	ebjeft	could	the	worthy	find,
	To	fignalize	the	greatncfs	of	his	mind	:
	Than	to	adorn,	with	fo	auguft	a	frame,
	The	place	that	gave	his	anceftors	a	name	?
	Delightful	fcene	!	thy	patron's	early	care,
	Who	rais'd	thee	up	magnificently	fair	:
	He	form'd	thy	beauties,	and	increas'd	thy	ftore,
	Great	in	thyfelf,	but	in	thy	founder	more.
	From	generous	Hudard,	whofe	victorious
	fword
	Made	Afton	ftoop	beneath	a	foreign	lord,
	Twenty	fucceflive	chiefs	defcended	down	;
	llluftrinus	all,	and	matchlefs	in	renown.
	When	injur'd	barons	durft	by	arms	reftrain
	Their	fovereign'i	pride,	on	the	embattled	plain	;
	And	rival	rofes,	with	impetuous	rage,
	Involv'd	in	blood	the	next	defcending	age	:
	Or	when	abroad	we	nobler	conquefts	fought,
	For	empire	{trove,	for	fame	and	beauty	fought	;
	Their	great	exploits	our	Britiih	annals	grace,
	And	ancient	bards	immortalize	the	race.
	No	lineage	can	a	nobler	fubjeA	yield,
	Nor	oftener	fhar'd	the	triumphs	of	the	field	:
	Renown'd	in	war,	by	arts	endear'd	to	fame,
	Worthy	their	high	defcent,	and	glorious	name.
	But	though	fo	many	pious	worthies	join,
	To	form	the	luftre	of	a	noble	line	:
	Pafs	not,	ungrateful	nymph,	neglected	by
	A	fhade	renown'd	!	a	name	that	cannot	die	I
	His	father's	fame	with	awful	fteps	purfue,
	And	raife	thy	flight	with	the	tranfporting	view.
	When	load	fedition	call'd	him	early	forth,
	To	merit	wreaths,	and	fignalize	his	worth;
	H's	bounteous	mind	fupply'd	the	royal	part
	With	flowing	fortunes,	and	a	faithful	heart.
	His	fword	and	pen	were	drawn	in	juft	defence
	Of	fuffering	prelates,	and	an	injur'd	prince	:
	And	as	fome	midnight	wolf,	by	hunger	prefs'd,
	With	boundlefs	fury	would	the	plains	infeft	;
	But	if	he	hears	the	lion's	awful	voice,
	His	head	he	couches,	and	contracts	his	paws	:
	Thus	raging	faction	murmur'd	in	its	den,
	Reftrain'd	and	aw'd	by	his	fublimer	pen	:
	And	when	rebellion	rear'd	its	guilty	head,
	Before	his	arms	the	Vanquifh'd	monfter	fled.
	Immortal	fhade	!	to	endlefs	ages	reft	!
	With	joys,	that	never	rebel	tafted,	blefs'd	:
	As	champion	for	the	facred'ft	race	of	men,
	Accept	this	tribute	from	a	grateful	pen	;
	Firm	to	the	church,	and	loyal	to	the	crown
	Is	more	than	fame,	and	fanclifits	renown.
	Nor	wonder,	then,	fo	many	graces	join'd,
	To	form	the	perfect	beauties	of	his	mind	:
	He	from	his	anceftors	deriv'd	them	down,
	Improving	virtues	by	defcent	his	own.
	And	firft	thy	Afton's	matchlefs	form	furvey,
	Trom	early	youth	to	nature's	laft	decay	:
	The	lively	features	of	his	beauty	trace,
	And	give	each	lineament	its	native	grace.
	Grandeur	and	fweetnefs	in	his	perfon	join'd,
	Auguft	his	prefence,	and	his	afpc6t	kind	;
	His	lofty	ftature,	and	diftinguifh'd	mien,
	Confeis'd	the	grcatnefs	of	a	foul	within	;
	For	generous	natures	purify	their	clay,
	And	o'er	the	body	fpread	a	lucid	ray	:
	Through	every	part	informing	fpirits	Hy^f
	Difdain	reftraint,	and	fparkle	at	the	eye.
	Such	general	luftre,	fuch	refiftlef*	grace,
	Hi	limbs	adorn'd,	and	trium(	h'd	in	his	face.
	But	as	the	earth	in	her	capacious	veins,
	The	fplendid	treafure	of	her	mines	contains	:
	With	fading	flowers	fhe	paints	the	furface	o'ery
	But	inward	{nines	with	unexhaufted	ftore;
	So	lovely	forms	are	on	mankind	beftow'd,
	Only	to	dignify	the	foul's	abode	:
	Within	the	beams	of	fpaikling	wit	we	find,
	The	charms	of	fenfe,	and	treafures	of	the	mind.
	Indulgent	nature	thus	her	bounty	{how'd,
	Thus	every	{billing	faculty	beftow'd	:
	With	ftores	enrich'd	his	intellectual	feat,
	And	form'd	the	luftre	of	his	mind	complete.
	Where	aged	Cham	in	fam'd	meanders	flow*,
	His	early	youth	a	foft	retirement	chofc	:
	To	reft	beneath	the	venerable	fhade,
	Where	Spenfer	fung,	and	Cowley's	mufc	was	laid*
	Propitious	nature	had	prepar'd	before,
	A	mind	tenacious	of	the	learned	ftore	:
	The	flowing	firings	of	knowledge	to	receive,
	And	take	imprefllons	faft	as	art	could	give.
	Aufpicious	Cham	!	not	all	thy	bnafted	race
	Of	tuneful	youths,	that	celebrate	thy	praife;
	That	in	the	various	fpheres	of	learning	fhine,
	Belov'd	by	Phcebus	and	the	facred	Nine	;
	With	nobler	wreaths	did	e'er	thy	temples	crown,
	Or	add,	L'kc	him,	to	thy	diffus'd	renown,
	And	next	the	flowing	robe	employ	'd	his	care,
	And	bulky	volumes	of	the	painful	bar	:
	Though	wealth	and	fame	the	toilfome	fearch	at
	tend,
	Yet	he	purfued	it	for	a	nobler	end.
	Obfcure	and	intricate	our	laws	appear,	[clear	:
	Perplex'd	with	comments	that	fhould	make	them
	His	juftice	through	the	gloomy	mifts	furvey'd,
	And	reafon	found	by	fubtleties	betray'd;
	With	eloquence	he	fmooth'd	the	rugged	way,
	And	fcatter'd	{hades	with	judgment's	piercing	ray.
	He	nature	in	her	dark	receflies	fought,
	And	with	philofophy	fublim'd	his	thought.
	In	all	the	various	parts	of	learning	ikill'd,
	That	Grecian	fages,	or	the	Roman,	yield	:
	He	from	the	ancients	drain'd	their	richeft	ftore,
	Refining	ftill	with	wit	the	fparkling	ore.
	Nor	did	he	want	the	lyre's	harmonious	found,
	Whofe	pleafing	accents	all	his	labours	crown'd	:
	The	tuneful	Jyre,	that	charms	us	with	delight,
	Repels	our	cares,	and	glads	the	tedious	night	;
	Reftrains	our	pafllons,	calms	our	furious	rage,
	The	joy	of	youth,	and	the	relief	of	age.
	His	piercing	faculties,	ferenely	bright,
	Let	inward	to	the	foul	diftin&er	light	:
	His	fenfes	exquifite,	and	reafon	found,	~\
	Surmounted	all	the	obftacles	they	found,	/
	In	knowledge	vers'd,	in	learning's	depths	pro-	f"
	found.	j
	Nor	were	his	hours	to	books	alone	confin'd,
	His	perfon	was	accomplifh'd	as	his	mind	:
	He	us'd	his	weapons	with	admir'd	fuccefs,
	Excell'd	in	courtihip,	and	a	kind	addrefs.
	Whether	he	urgV.	the	courfer	to	his	fpeed,
	Or	tempo.	'vl	with	his	Ikili,	the	fiery	fixed;


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	773
	When	foaming	*t	the	ring	he	fpurn*	the	fands,
	Repeats	his	ftrokcs,	and	launches	as	he	ftands	:
	With	grateful	gefture	he	did	each	command,
	And	ply'd	his	reins	with	an	inftru&ive	hand.
	Or'whether,	to	the	fportive	dance	inclin'd,
	In	lively	meafureshe	the	concert	join'd:
	None	ever	niov'd	with	more	majcftic	pace,
	Show'd	greater	art,	or	more	becoming	grace.
	His-	flowing	wit,	with	folid	judgment	join'd,
	Talents	united	rarely	in	a	mind,
	Had	all	the	graces	and	engaging	art,
	That	charm	the	car	and	captivate	the	heart.
	No	pointed	fatire,	nor	inorofe	difdain,
	Allay'd	the	pleafure	of	his	words	with	pain	:
	His	inoffenfive	tongue,	from	flander	free,
	From	flattery's	vice,	or	blafted	calumny	;
	Knew	all	the	firings	that	fecret	pafiiens	move,
	Rai'e	admiration,	or	infpire	with	love.
	Sententious	and	inftruclive	his	difcourfe,
	He	urg'd	his	reafons	with	refiftlefs	force.
	A	lively	eloquence	adorn'd	his	thought,
	And	happy	turns	of	wit	occurr'd	unfought:
	Exprcffivc.	words	his	flowing	fenfe	convey'd,
	Juft	were	his	thoughts,	and	powerful	to	perfuade.
	But,	goddefs,	now	a	nobler	fcene	furvey,
	Expand	thy	wings,	thy	brighteft	charms	difplay	I
	What	various	beauties	here	diftra<ft	thy	fight	!
	What	virtues	that	furmount	thy	towering	flight	!
	As	namelefs	ftars,	that	form	the	galaxy,
	With	undiftinguiih'd	lullre	gild	the	fky	;
	So	{hone	the	graces	that	adorn'd	his	mind,
	And	with	concenter'd	rays	their	beauties	join'd	:
	Whofe	lucid	numbers	but	repel	thy	fight,
	And,	thus	united,	form	one	glorious	orb	of	light.
	His	riper	years	to	wifdom	he	apply'd,
	Each	path	purfued,	and	every	conqueft	try'd	:
	Wifdom,	the	darling	attribute	alone,
	By	which	th"	Almighty's	more	diftinftly	known	:
	And,	when	contracted	to	a	narrow	fpan,
	Becomes	the	noblcft	faculty	of	man.
	Through	books	he	trac'd	her	in	the	plcafing
	chafe,
	Ranfack'd	their	{lores,	and	ftill	maintain	"d	his	pace.
	With	crowds,	and	bufy	men,	he	flrove	to	find
	The	flying	fair,	the	object	of	his	mind	:	[guife,
	Through	fpecious	arts,	through	all	their	vain	dif-
	He	faw,	diftinguilh'd,	and	obtain'd	the	prize.
	His	mind,	with	each	fuperior	talent	fraught,
	For	councils	form'd	his	enterprifing	thought	:
	Quick	of	difpatch,	dilcreet	in	every	truir,
	Rigidly	honeft,	and	fevere!y	juft.
	Though	kindnefs	in	his	generous	bofom	reign'd,
	The	dignity	of	pow'r	he	ftill	maintain'd	:
	None	e'er	difcharg'd	affairs	with	more	addrefs,
	lerv'd	better	public	[tofts,	or	fought	them	ieia.
	His	conftancy	appear'd	in	every	ftate,
	Fix'd	and	unmov'd	as	the	decrees	of	fate	:
	No	fluctuating	doubts	his	mind	diftrefs'd,
	Nor	{hook	the	ftrong	foundations	of	nib	brcaft.
	His	refolution	bore	him	ftill	above
	The	rafh	effects	of	enmity	or	love	:
	Firm	en	the	bafts	of	himfelf	he	ftood,
	Of	right	tenacious,	permanent	in	good.
	Hence	flow'da	courage	unallny'd	with	fear,
	A	wicd	undaunted,	and	coofoiuicc	cicr	;
	With	innocence	and	virtue	for	a	guide,
	Succef-iu'.ly	he	ftem'd	th'	impetuous	tide.
	Intrepid	thus	he	revolutions	bore.
	Nor	deviated	from	paths	he	trod	before	:
	The	power	of	fortune	ftill	difdain'd	to	own,
	Nor	courted	fmiles,	nor	funk	beneath	her	frown,
	He	ferv'd	his	country,	with	regards	above
	The	common	views	of	mercenary	love	:
	His	paflion	fuch,	if	not	extended	more,
	As	pious	Romans	to	their	Latium	bore.
	No	fpecious	kindnefs	popularly	feign'd,
	By	intereft	rais'd,	or	with	ambition	ftain'd:
	The	tender	piety	his	actions	fliow'd,
	From	duty	fpmng,	from	fond	affection	flow'd.
	Untainted	with	the	ftain	of	either	vice,
	Of	lavilh	wafte,	or	grafping	avarice	:
	Nor	fquandcr'd	wealth,	nor	with	a	fordid	brea{^
	Condemn'd	to	hoards	the	treafures	he	poffefs'd.
	His	hofpitable	roof,	with	plenty	ftor'd,
	Enjoy'd	the	bleflings	of	a	fmiling	board	:
	Heav'n,	that	had	blefs'd	him	with	a	large	increaC:,
	Gave	him	afoul	deferving	to	pofiefs.
	The	father's	loyalty	defcended	down,
	Endear'd	by	fufferings,	to	his	eldeft	fon.
	As	Hannibal	purfued	the	Roman	Hate,
	With	double	portions	of	his	father's	hate	:
	Such	fix'd	avcrfion	in	his	bofom	fprung,
	And	arm'd	his	foul	againft	our	fa<5ti	ns,	youn	:
	A	murder'd	prince,	and	flaughter'd	parent's	fate,
	On	the	rebellious	race	entail'd	hi-	hate	:
	Firm	to	the	crown	his	duty	he	reraiti'd,
	And	o'er	his	heart	his	rightful	monarch	reign'd.
	View	beauties	yet	of	a	fublimer	kind,
	The	heavenly	offspring	of	a	pious	mind	:
	Charms	that	from	innocence	and	virtue	flow,
	That	to	religion	all	thtir	fplendoisr	owe	;
	Where	no	obfcuring	fpots	their	luftre	hide,
	By	crimes	untainted,	undeforni'd	with	pride.
	Blefs'd	charity,	the	pure	etherial	ray,
	That	heaven	itfelf	does	^o	our	breads	cony	;
	In	larger	portions	to	his	bofom	came.
	And	o'er;	his	foul	diffus'd	a	ftronger	flame.
	In	him	the	wretched	always	found	relief,
	Patron	of	want,	redrefier	of	their	grief	:
	To	him	th'	afflidled	never	fued	in	vain,
	He	felt	their	miferies,	and	eas'd	their	pain.
	In	midft	of	pKnty	free	from	fenfual	vice.
	Nor	more	indulg'd	than	nature	would	fuffice	t
	The	calm	and	equal	temper	of	his	foul
	Did	every	guilty	appetite	.controul;
	Within	their	womb	the	vicious	feeds	fupprefs'i,
	And	ftrangled	forming	paffions	in	his	breaft.
	The	church	in	him	enjoy	'd	a	faithful	fon,
	Whofe	duty	with	his	early	years	begun	:
	A	virtuous	life	his	juft	obedience	fliow'd,
	And	from	religion	his	affcdion	flow	l	d	;
	Long	application	fix'd	his	heart	fecure,
	He	fearch'd	her	doctrines,	and	he	found	them
	pure.
	The	liturgy	employ'd	his	daily	care,
	His	public	worfhip,	and	his	private	prayer	:
	To	all	its	rites	conformity	he	paid,
	The	fervice	lov'd,	and	difcipline	obey'd.
	Such	ftroncr	devotion,	fuch	celeftial	fire,
	Inflam'd	hi*	heart,	and	did	his	breaft	infpir	:
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