231:00,000@@@@@| 231:00,000[' ]| 231:00,000[' ]| 231:01,000[' ]| 231:01,000[' ]| < in King James II's reign, 1687> 231:01,000[' ]| 231:01,001[A ]| Let mighty Caesar not disdain to$9$ view 231:01,002[A ]| These emblems of his power and goodness too: 231:01,003[A ]| A short essay, but fraught with Caesar's fame, 231:01,004[A ]| And shows how distant courts esteem his name. 231:01,005[A ]| Here mayst thou see thy wondrous fortunes traced, 231:01,006[A ]| With sufferings first, and then with empire graced; 231:01,007[A ]| Long tossed with storms on$4$ Faction's swelling tide, 231:01,008[A ]| Thy conduct and thy constancy was tried, 231:01,009[A ]| As Heaven designed thy virtue to$9$ proclaim 231:01,010[A ]| And show the crown deserved before it came. 231:01,011[A ]| Troy's hero thus, when Troy could stand no$2$ more, 231:01,012[A ]| Urged by$4$ the fates to$9$ leave his native shore 231:01,013[A ]| With restless toil on$4$ land and seas was tossed 231:01,014[A ]| Before he arrived the fair Lavinian coast. 231:01,015[A ]| Thus Maro did his mighty hero feign: 231:01,016[A ]| Augustus claimed the character in$4$ vain, 231:01,017[A ]| Which$6#1$ Britain's Caesar only can sustain. 231:01,018[A ]| Permit, dread sir, my muse, though mean, to$9$ own 231:01,019[A ]| A truth to$4$ Albion and to$4$ Europe known. 231:01,020[A ]| You are what Virgil feigned his prince to$9$ be: 231:01,021[A ]| Your valour such and such your piety. 231:01,022[A ]| Now Theseus' deeds we can retrieve for$4$ true, 231:01,023[A ]| And Hercules was but a type of you ~~ 231:01,024[A ]| He made the fierce Lernaean monster bleed; 231:01,025[A ]| From Hydra-faction you have Albion freed. 231:01,026[A ]| The paths of glory trod and danger passed, 231:01,027[A ]| Just Heaven allows a peaceful throne at last: 231:01,028[A ]| At home to$9$ show the indulgence of a god 231:01,029[A ]| And send your peaceful ministers abroad. 231:01,030[A ]| While Palmer hastens to$4$ the Roman court 231:01,031[A ]| (And fraught with worth that$6#2$ honour to$9$ support) 231:01,032[A ]| His glorious train and passing pomp to$9$ view 231:01,033[A ]| (A pomp that$6#1$ even to$4$ Rome itself was new), 231:01,034[A ]| Each age, each sex the Latian turrets filled, 231:01,035[A ]| Each age, each sex in$4$ tears of joy distilled, 231:01,036[A ]| While wonder them to$4$ statues did convert; 231:01,037[A ]| Those seemed to$9$ live that$6#1$ were the works of art, 231:01,038[A ]| Emblems and figures of such life and force 231:01,039[A ]| As, wanting speech, did to$4$ the eye discourse 231:01,040[A ]| And show what was despaired in$4$ ages past, 231:01,041[A ]| An universal language found at last. 231:01,042[A ]| Hail Palmer, hail, illustrious minister, 231:01,043[A ]| To$4$ Caesar, Britain, Fame and Virtue dear; 231:01,044[A ]| Caesar to$9$ represent, great Caesar's voice, 231:01,045[A ]| Named Castlemaine; the British shores rejoice, 231:01,046[A ]| And Tiber's banks applaud great Caesar's choice. 231:01,047[A ]| How therefore could the Muses silent be, 231:01,048[A ]| And none can want a Muse that$6#1$ writes of thee! 231:01,049[A ]| From thine, no$2$ Phoebus tree, my song I will$1$ raise, 231:01,050[A ]| And crowned with palm I will$1$ contemn the bays. 231:02,000@@@@@| 231:02,000[' ]| 231:02,000[' ]| 231:02,001[A ]| To$4$ what a wretched state are poets born, 231:02,002[A ]| Split on$4$ the rocks of envy or of scorn? 231:02,003[A ]| Even to$4$ the best the promised wreath's denied, 231:02,004[A ]| And just contempt attends on$4$ all beside. 231:02,005[A ]| This, one would think, should lessen the temptation, 231:02,006[A ]| But they are poets by$4$ predestination. 231:02,007[A ]| The fatal bait undaunted they pursue 231:02,008[A ]| And claim the laurel as their labour's due. 231:02,009[A ]| But where is the use of merit or of laws 231:02,010[A ]| When ignorance and malice judge the cause? 231:02,011[A ]| Between these, like$4$ Aesop's husband, poets fare, 231:02,012[A ]| This pulls the black and that$6#2$ the silver hair, 231:02,013[A ]| Till they have left the poem bald and bare. 231:02,014[A ]| Behold the dreadful spot they ought to$9$ fear: 231:02,015[A ]| Whole loads of poet-bane are scattered here. 231:02,016[A ]| Wherever it lights the sad effects we find, 231:02,017[A ]| Though on$4$ the tender hearts of woman-kind. 231:02,018[A ]| The men (whose talents they themselves mistake, 231:02,019[A ]| Or misapply for$4$ contradiction sake) 231:02,020[A ]| Spite of their stars, must needs be critics still, 231:02,021[A ]| Nay, though prohibited by$4$ the Irish bill. 231:02,022[A ]| Blessed age when all our actions seem designed 231:02,023[A ]| To$9$ prove a war between reason and mankind! 231:02,024[A ]| Here an affected coquette perks and prunes, 231:02,025[A ]| Though she is below the level of lampoons, 231:02,026[A ]| Venting her fly-blown charms till her own squire 231:02,027[A ]| Is grown too nice and dainty to$9$ admire. 231:02,028[A ]| There a pretending fop (a man of note 231:02,029[A ]| More for$4$ his threadbare jest than gaudy coat) 231:02,030[A ]| Sees every coxcomb's mirth, yet wants the sense 231:02,031[A ]| To$9$ know it is caused by$4$ this impertinence. 231:02,032[A ]| Nor rests the mighty grievance here alone, 231:02,033[A ]| For$3$ not content with follies of our own, 231:02,034[A ]| We plunder the fair sex of what we can, 231:02,035[A ]| Who$6#1$ seldom miss their dear revenge on$4$ man. 231:02,036[A ]| Their property of falsehood we invade 231:02,037[A ]| Whilst they usurp our midnight scouring trade. 231:02,000[' ]| 231:02,038[A ]| Now we expect to$9$ hear our rare blades say 231:02,039[A ]| Damn me I see no$2$ sense in$4$ this dull play; 231:02,040[A ]| Though much of it our abler judges know 231:02,041[A ]| Was famous sense above forty years ago. 231:02,042[A ]| Sometimes we fail to$9$ please for$4$ want of wit 231:02,043[A ]| In$4$ the play, but more for$4$ want of it in$4$ the pit; 231:02,044[A ]| For$3$ many a ruined poet's work it would save 231:02,045[A ]| Had you but half the sense you think you have. 231:02,046[A ]| Poets on$4$ your forefathers palmed dull plays, 231:02,047[A ]| And shrewdly you revenge it in$4$ our days. 231:02,048[A ]| In$4$ troth we fare by$4$ it as your tradesmen do, 231:02,049[A ]| For$3$ whilst they raise estates by$4$ cheating you 231:02,050[A ]| Into acquaintance with their wives you fall 231:02,051[A ]| And get them graceless sons to$9$ spend it all. 231:02,052[A ]| It is plain they are yours because all our arts miscarry, 231:02,053[A ]| For$3$ just like$4$ you, they will$1$ damn before they marry. 231:02,054[A ]| Of honest terms I now almost despair 231:02,055[A ]| Unless retrieved by$4$ some rich yeoman's heir, 231:02,056[A ]| In$4$ grandam's ribbons and his own straight hair. 231:02,057[A ]| What comforts such a lover will$1$ afford, 231:02,058[A ]| Jointure, dear jointure, O the heavenly word! 231:02,059[A ]| But before of you my sparks my leave I take, 231:02,060[A ]| For$4$ your unkindness past these prayers I make ~~ 231:02,061[A ]| So$5#1$ very constant may your misses be 231:02,062[A ]| Till you grow cloyed for$4$ want of jealousy! 231:02,063[A ]| Into such dullness may your poets tire 231:02,064[A ]| Till they shall write such plays as you admire. 231:02,065[A ]| May you, instead of gaming, whoring, drinking, 231:02,066[A ]| Be doomed to$4$ your aversion ~~ books and thinking. 231:02,067[A ]| And for$4$ a last wish ~~ what I am sure you will$1$ call 231:02,068[A ]| The curse of curses ~~ marriage take ye all. 231:03,000@@@@@| 231:03,000[' ]| 231:03,000[' ]| 231:03,001[A ]| Since by$4$ mistakes your best delights are made 231:03,002[A ]| (For$3$ even your wives best please in$4$ masquerade), 231:03,003[A ]| It were worth our while to$9$ have drawn you in$4$ this day 231:03,004[A ]| By$4$ a new name to$4$ our old honest play; 231:03,005[A ]| But he that$6#1$ did this evening's treat prepare 231:03,006[A ]| Bluntly resolved beforehand to$9$ declare 231:03,007[A ]| Your entertainment should be most old fare; 231:03,008[A ]| Yet hopes, since in$4$ rich Shakespeare's soil it grew, 231:03,009[A ]| It will$1$ relish yet with those whose tastes are true, 231:03,010[A ]| And his ambition is to$9$ please a few. 231:03,011[A ]| If then this heap of flowers shall chance to$9$ wear 231:03,012[A ]| Fresh beauty in$4$ the order they now bear 231:03,013[A ]| Even this Shakespeare's praise; each rustic knows 231:03,014[A ]| Amongst plenteous flowers a garland to$9$ compose, 231:03,015[A ]| Which$6#1$ strung by$4$ his coarse hand may fairer show, 231:03,016[A ]| But it was a power divine first made them grow. 231:03,017[A ]| Why should these scenes lie hid, in$4$ which$6#1$ we find 231:03,018[A ]| What may at once divert and teach the mind? 231:03,019[A ]| Morals were always proper for$4$ the stage, 231:03,020[A ]| But are even necessary in$4$ this age. 231:03,021[A ]| Poets must take the church's teaching trade 231:03,022[A ]| Since priests their province of intrigue invade; 231:03,023[A ]| But we the worst in$4$ this exchange have got, 231:03,024[A ]| In$4$ vain our poets preach while churchmen plot. 231:03,000[' ]| 231:03,025[A ]| Inconstancy, the reigning sin of the age, 231:03,026[A ]| Will$1$ scarce endure true lovers on$4$ the stage. 231:03,027[A ]| You hardly even in$4$ plays with such dispense, 231:03,028[A ]| And poets kill them in$4$ their own defence. 231:03,029[A ]| Yet one bold proof I was resolved to$9$ give 231:03,030[A ]| That$3$ I could three hours constancy outlive. 231:03,031[A ]| You fear, perhaps, whilst on$4$ the stage we are made 231:03,032[A ]| Such saints, we shall indeed take up$5$ the trade; 231:03,033[A ]| Sometimes we threaten ~~ but our virtue may 231:03,034[A ]| For$4$ truth I fear with your pit-valour weigh: 231:03,035[A ]| For$3$ (not to$9$ flatter either) I much doubt 231:03,036[A ]| When we are off the stage, and you are out, 231:03,037[A ]| We are not quite so$5#1$ coy, nor you so$5#1$ stout. 231:03,038[A ]| We talk of nunneries, but, to$9$ be sincere, 231:03,039[A ]| Whoever lives to$9$ see us cloistered there 231:03,040[A ]| May hope to$9$ meet our critics at Tangier. 231:03,041[A ]| For$4$ shame give over this inglorious trade 231:03,042[A ]| Of worrying poets and go maul the Alcade. 231:03,043[A ]| Well, since you are all for$4$ blustering in$4$ the pit, 231:03,044[A ]| This play's reviver humbly does admit 231:03,045[A ]| Your absolute power to$9$ damn his part of it; 231:03,046[A ]| But still so$5#1$ many master-touches shine 231:03,047[A ]| Of that$6#2$ vast hand that$6#1$ first laid this design, 231:03,048[A ]| That$3$, in$4$ great Shakespeare's right, he is bold to$9$ say: 231:03,049[A ]| If you like$1$ nothing you have seen today, 231:03,050[A ]| The play your judgement damns, not you the play. 231:04,000@@@@@| 231:04,000[' ]| 231:04,000[' ]| 231:04,001[A ]| Before the altar the devoted maid 231:04,002[A ]| (With garlands crowned and in$4$ white robes arrayed) 231:04,003[A ]| Appears all mild to$9$ yield her destined life, 231:04,004[A ]| And, waiting the slow sacrificers knife, 231:04,005[A ]| A virgin blush her aspect purpled over, 231:04,006[A ]| As young and never beheld by$4$ crowds before 231:04,007[A ]| (Such tincture crimsoned alabaster shows 231:04,008[A ]| Or lilies shaded by$4$ a neighbouring rose); 231:04,009[A ]| Yet generous resolution does display 231:04,010[A ]| That$6#1$ with her modesty bears equal sway. 231:04,011[A ]| She, only she, appears without surprise, 231:04,012[A ]| And views the weeping crowd with cheerful eyes. 231:04,013[A ]| Some call to$4$ mind the public service done 231:04,014[A ]| And battle lately by$4$ her father won, 231:04,015[A ]| His blood's expense in$4$ field to$9$ save the state 231:04,016[A ]| And with it the unhappy victor's fate, 231:04,017[A ]| Of age's last reserve and hopes bereft, 231:04,018[A ]| His ancient house and lineage heirless left. 231:04,019[A ]| The younger sort bewail her blooming charms 231:04,020[A ]| And grudge so$5#1$ fair a prize to$4$ death's cold arms. 231:04,021[A ]| The nymph for$4$ whom the noblest youths had pined. 231:04,022[A ]| A booty to$4$ the thankless grave assigned; 231:04,023[A ]| For$3$ now, as chance would play the tyrants's part 231:04,024[A ]| And fret their wounds with fresh supplies of smart, 231:04,025[A ]| Those beauties nature had before conferred, 231:04,026[A ]| Sublimed and to$4$ advantage all appeared; 231:04,027[A ]| Their grief was now to$4$ consternation turned. 231:04,028[A ]| They now mourn silent, as before they burned. 231:04,029[A ]| Of this the virgin does advantage take, 231:04,030[A ]| And her afflicted father thus bespake: 231:04,031@b | To$4$ Ammon's court, great sir, these plaints remit, 231:04,032@b | These plaints are only for$4$ the vanquished fit. 231:04,033@b | Myself to$4$ death's cold arms I freely give, 231:04,034@b | While you to$9$ shield our state and altars live. 231:04,035@b | You rate my useless life at price too high 231:04,036@b | To$9$ make me yours, and Israel's victim die. 231:04,037@b | More than my merits or my hopes could claim, 231:04,038@b | To$9$ purchase with few years immortal fame. 231:04,039@b | With comfort to$4$ your palace, sir, repair, 231:04,040@b | To$9$ cherish her that$6#1$ is now your only care: 231:04,041@b | My tender mother's sorrow to$9$ assuage, 231:04,042@b | For$3$ only you can check the tyrant's rage. 231:04,043@b | Forget your worthless daughter, and survive 231:04,044@b | By$4$ your example to$9$ keep her alive. 231:04,045@b | You else resign your laurels to$4$ the foe, 231:04,046@b | And conquered Ammon triumphs in$4$ your woe. 231:04,047@b | Or have you lavished all your love away 231:04,048@b | On$4$ my past years ~~ 231:04,049@b | Reserved no$2$ kindness for$4$ my latest day? 231:04,050@b | If my past life did you in$4$ ought offend, 231:04,051@b | In$4$ death at least I would my fault amend 231:04,052@b | And to$4$ the shades a guiltless soul descend. 231:04,053@c | O torture! 231:04,053[A ]| the distracted father cries 231:04,054[A ]| With arms extended and uplifted eyes, 231:04,055@c | Too much, ye conscious skies, for$4$ man to$9$ bear! 231:04,056@c | For$3$ this is torment that$6#1$ exceeds despair. 231:04,057[A ]| The weeping crowd around he then surveyed: 231:04,058@c | O if the death of this illustrious maid 231:04,059@c | You wretched make, her death you only see, 231:04,060@c | What must the murderer her father be? 231:04,061@c | In$4$ innocence your sorrow finds relief; 231:04,062@c | I bear the double load of guilt and grief. 231:05,000@@@@@| 231:05,000[' ]| 231:05,000[' ]| 231:05,000[' ]| 231:05,001[A ]| Accept great son of art this faint effect 231:05,002[A ]| Of a most active and unfeigned respect: 231:05,003[A ]| Numbers that$6#1$ yield (alas) too just survey 231:05,004[A ]| Of physic's growth and poetry's decay; 231:05,005[A ]| That$6#1$ show a generous muse impaired by$4$ me, 231:05,006[A ]| As much as the author's skill is outdone by$4$ thee. 231:05,007[A ]| This Indian conqueror's fatal march he sung 231:05,008[A ]| To$4$ the same lyre his own Apollo strung; 231:05,009[A ]| Whose notes yet failed the monster to$9$ assuage, 231:05,010[A ]| Revenging here invading Spaniard's rage. 231:05,011[A ]| Dear was the conquest of a new-found world, 231:05,012[A ]| Whose plague, ever since, through all the old is hurled. 231:05,013[A ]| Had Frascatorius, who$6#1$ in$4$ numbers told 231:05,014[A ]| (Numbers more rich than those new lands of hold) 231:05,015[A ]| This great destroyer's progress, seen this age. 231:05,016[A ]| And thy success against the tyrant's rage, 231:05,017[A ]| Bembus had then been no$2$ immortal name, 231:05,018[A ]| Thou and thy art had challenged all his flame! 231:05,019[A ]| Thou drivest the usurper to$4$ his last retreats, 231:05,020[A ]| Repairing as thou goest the ruined seats. 231:05,021[A ]| Thus, while the foe is by$4$ thy art removed, 231:05,022[A ]| The holds are strengthened and the soil improved. 231:05,023[A ]| Thy happy conquest does at once expel 231:05,024[A ]| The invader's force and inbred factions quell. 231:05,025[A ]| Thy patients' and Augusta's fate is the same, 231:05,026[A ]| To$9$ rise more fair and lasting for$4$ the flame. 231:05,027[A ]| While meaner artists this bold task essay, 231:05,028[A ]| In$4$ the little world of man they lose their way. 231:05,029[A ]| Thou knowst the secret passes to$4$ each part, 231:05,030[A ]| And, skilled in$4$ nature, canst not fail in$4$ art. 231:06,000@@@@@| 231:06,000[' ]| 231:06,000[' ]| <"A poetical history of the French disease" > 231:06,000[' ]| 231:06,001[A ]| Through what adventures this unknown disease 231:06,002[A ]| So$5#1$ lately did astonished Europe seize, 231:06,003[A ]| Through Asian coasts and Libyan cities ran, 231:06,004[A ]| And from what seeds the malady began, 231:06,005[A ]| Our song shall tell. To$4$ Naples first it came 231:06,006[A ]| From France and justly took from France its name, 231:06,007[A ]| Companion of the war ~~ 231:06,008[A ]| The methods next of cure we shall express, 231:06,009[A ]| The wondrous wit of mortals in$4$ distress; 231:06,010[A ]| But when their skill too faint resistance made, 231:06,011[A ]| We will$1$ show the gods descending to$4$ their aid. 231:06,012[A ]| To$9$ reach the secret causes we must rise 231:06,013[A ]| Above the clouds and travel over the skies. 231:06,014[A ]| The daring subject let us then pursue, 231:06,015[A ]| Transported with an argument so$5#1$ new, 231:06,016[A ]| While springing groves and tuneful birds invite 231:06,017[A ]| And muses that$6#1$ in$4$ wondrous themes delight. 231:06,018[A ]| Oh Bembus, ornament of Italy, 231:06,019[A ]| If yet from cares of state thou canst be free, 231:06,020[A ]| If Leo's councils yet can spare thy skill 231:06,021[A ]| And let the business of the world stand still, 231:06,022[A ]| O steal a visit to$4$ those cool retreats, 231:06,023[A ]| The muses dearest, most frequented seats; 231:06,024[A ]| And gentle Bembus, do not there disdain 231:06,025[A ]| A member of the Aesculapian train, 231:06,026[A ]| Attempting physic's practice to$9$ rehearse, 231:06,027[A ]| And clothing low experiments in$4$ verse. 231:06,028[A ]| A god instructs, these mysteries of old 231:06,029[A ]| By$4$ great Apollo's self in$4$ equal strains were told. 231:06,030[A ]| The smallest objects oft attract our eyes, 231:06,031[A ]| But here beneath a small appearance lies 231:06,032[A ]| A source that$6#1$ greatest wonder will$1$ create 231:06,033[A ]| Of nature much and very much of fate. 231:06,034[A ]| But thou, Urania, who$6#1$ alone canst trace 231:06,035[A ]| First causes, measure out the starry space, 231:06,036[A ]| That$6#1$ knowst the planets' number, force and use 231:06,037[A ]| And what effects the varied orbs produce: 231:06,038[A ]| So$3$ may the spheres thy heavenly course admire, 231:06,039[A ]| The stars with envy at thy beams retire; 231:06,040[A ]| As thou a while shalt condescend to$9$ dwell 231:06,041[A ]| With me on$4$ earth, and make this grove thy cell; 231:06,042[A ]| While Zephyrus can my head with myrtle bound 231:06,043[A ]| And imitating rocks my song resound. 231:06,044[A ]| Say, goddess, to$4$ what cause we shall at last 231:06,045[A ]| Assign this plague, unknown to$4$ ages past; 231:06,046[A ]| If from the Western climes it was wafted over 231:06,047[A ]| When daring Spaniards left their native shore, 231:06,048[A ]| Resolved beyond the Atlantic to$9$ descry 231:06,049[A ]| Conjectured worlds, or in$4$ this search to$9$ die, 231:06,050[A ]| For$3$ fame reports this grief perpetual there 231:06,051[A ]| From skies infected and polluted air, 231:06,052[A ]| From whence it is grown so$5#1$ epidemical, 231:06,053[A ]| Whole cities victims to$4$ its fury fall; 231:06,054[A ]| Few escape, for$4$ what relief where vital breath, 231:06,055[A ]| The gate of life, is made the road of death? 231:06,056[A ]| If then by$4$ traffic thence this plague was brought, 231:06,057[A ]| How dearly, dearly was that$6#2$ traffic bought! 231:06,058[A ]| This prodigy of sickness, weak at first 231:06,059[A ]| (Like$4$ infant tyrants and in$4$ secret nursed) 231:06,060[A ]| When once confirmed, with sudden rage breaks forth, 231:06,061[A ]| And scatters desolation through the earth. 231:06,062[A ]| So$3$ while the shepherd travelling through the dark 231:06,063[A ]| Strikes his dim torch, some unsuspected spark 231:06,064[A ]| Falls in$4$ the stubble where it smothers long 231:06,065[A ]| But by$4$ degrees becomes at last so$5#1$ strong 231:06,066[A ]| That$3$ now it spreads over all the neighbouring soil, 231:06,067[A ]| Devours at once the ploughman's hope and toil; 231:06,068[A ]| The sacred grove next sacrifice must be, 231:06,069[A ]| Nor Jove can save his dedicated tree; 231:06,070[A ]| The grove foments its rage, from whence it flies 231:06,071[A ]| In$4$ curling flames, and seems to$9$ fire the skies. 231:06,072[A ]| Yet observation rightly taken draws 231:06,073[A ]| This new distemper from some newer cause; 231:06,074[A ]| Nor reason can allow that$3$ this disease 231:06,075[A ]| Came first by$4$ commerce from beyond the seas; 231:06,076[A ]| Since instances in$4$ divers lands are shown 231:06,077[A ]| To$4$ whom all Indian traffic is unknown: 231:06,078[A ]| Nor could the infection from the western clime 231:06,079[A ]| Seize distant nations at the self-same time; 231:06,080[A ]| And in$4$ remoter parts begin its reign 231:06,081[A ]| As fierce and early as it did in$4$ Spain. 231:06,082[A ]| What slaughter in$4$ our Italy was made 231:06,083[A ]| Where Tiber's tribute to$4$ the ocean is paid; 231:06,084[A ]| Where Po does through a hundred cities glide, 231:06,085[A ]| And pours as many streams into the tide. 231:06,086[A ]| All at one season, all without relief, 231:06,087[A ]| Received and languished with the common grief. 231:06,088[A ]| Nor can the infection first be charged on$4$ Spain 231:06,089[A ]| That$6#1$ sought new worlds beyond the Western main, 231:06,090[A ]| Since from Pyrenees' foot to$4$ Italy 231:06,091[A ]| It shed its bane on$4$ France while Spain was free. 231:06,092[A ]| As soon the fertile Rhine its fury found, 231:06,093[A ]| And regions with eternal winter bound: 231:06,094[A ]| Nor yet did southern climes its vengeance shun, 231:06,095[A ]| But felt a flame more scorching than the sun. 231:06,096[A ]| The palms of Ida now neglected stood, 231:06,097[A ]| And Egypt languished while her Nile overflowed; 231:06,098[A ]| From when it is plain this pest must be assigned 231:06,099[A ]| To$4$ some more powerful cause, and hard to$9$ find. 231:06,100[A ]| In$4$ all productions of wise Nature's hand, 231:06,101[A ]| Whether conceived in$4$ air, on$4$ sea, or land, 231:06,102[A ]| No$2$ constant method does direct her way, 231:06,103[A ]| But various beings various laws obey; 231:06,104[A ]| Such things as from few principles arise, 231:06,105[A ]| In$4$ every place and season meet our eyes; 231:06,106[A ]| But what are framed of principles abstruse, 231:06,107[A ]| Such places only and such times produce. 231:06,108[A ]| Effects of yet a more stupendous birth, 231:06,109[A ]| And such as Nature must with pangs bring forth, 231:06,110[A ]| Where violent and various seeds unite, 231:06,111[A ]| Break slowly from the bosom of the night. 231:06,112[A ]| Long in$4$ the womb of fate the embryo is worn: 231:06,113[A ]| Whole ages pass before the monster is born. 231:06,114[A ]| Diseases thus which$6#1$ various seeds compound, 231:06,115[A ]| As various in$4$ their birth and date are found. 231:06,116[A ]| Some always seen, some long in$4$ darkness hurled, 231:06,117[A ]| That$6#1$ break their chains at last to$9$ scourge the world. 231:06,118[A ]| To$4$ which$6#1$ black list this plague must be assigned, 231:06,119[A ]| Night's foulest birth and terror of mankind. 231:06,120[A ]| Nor must we yet think this escape the first, 231:06,121[A ]| Since former ages with the like$0$ were cursed. 231:06,122[A ]| Long since he scattered his infernal flame 231:06,123[A ]| And always being had, though not a name. 231:06,124[A ]| At least what name it bore is now unfound: 231:06,125[A ]| Both name and things in$4$ time's abyss lie drowned. 231:06,126[A ]| How vainly then do we project to$9$ keep 231:06,127[A ]| Our names remembered when our bodies sleep, 231:06,128[A ]| Since late succession searching their descent 231:06,129[A ]| Shall neither find our dust or monument? 231:06,130[A ]| Yet where the western ocean finds its bound 231:06,131[A ]| (The world so$5#1$ lately by$4$ the Spaniards found), 231:06,132[A ]| Beneath this pest the wretched natives groan, 231:06,133[A ]| In$4$ every nation there and always known. 231:06,134[A ]| Such dire effects depend upon$4$ a clime, 231:06,135[A ]| On$4$ varying skies and long revolving time. 231:06,136[A ]| The temper of their air this plague brought forth, 231:06,137[A ]| The soil itself disposed for$4$ such a birth. 231:06,138[A ]| All things conspired to$9$ raise the tyrant there, 231:06,139[A ]| But time alone could fix his conquest here. 231:06,140[A ]| If therefore more distinctly we would know 231:06,141[A ]| Each source from whence this deadly bane did flow, 231:06,142[A ]| His progress in$4$ the earth we must survey, 231:06,143[A ]| How many cities groan beneath his sway. 231:06,144[A ]| And when his great advancement we have traced, 231:06,145[A ]| We must allow his principles as vast 231:06,146[A ]| (The earth nor sea the ingredients could prepare) 231:06,147[A ]| And wholly must ascribe it to$4$ the air: 231:06,148[A ]| The tyrant's seat, his magazine, is there. 231:06,149[A ]| The air that$6#1$ does both earth and sea surround, 231:06,150[A ]| As easily can earth and sea confound; 231:06,151[A ]| What fence for$4$ bodies, when at every pore 231:06,152[A ]| The soft invader has an open door? 231:06,153[A ]| What fence, where poison is drawn with vital breath, 231:06,154[A ]| And Father Air the author proves of death? 231:06,155[A ]| Of subtle substance that$6#1$ with ease receives 231:06,156[A ]| Infection which$6#1$ as easily it gives. 231:06,157[A ]| Now by$4$ what means this dire contagion first 231:06,158[A ]| Was formed aloft, by$4$ what ingredients nursed, 231:06,159[A ]| Our song shall tell; and in$4$ this wondrous course 231:06,160[A ]| Revolving times and varying planets' force. 231:06,000[A ]| 231:06,161[A ]| First then, the sun with all his train of stars, 231:06,162[A ]| Amongst our elements raise endless wars; 231:06,163[A ]| And, when the planets from their stations range, 231:06,164[A ]| Our orb is influenced, and feels the change. 231:06,165[A ]| The chiefest instance is the sun's retreat: 231:06,166[A ]| No$2$ sooner he withdraws his vital heat 231:06,167[A ]| But fruitless fields with snow are covered over, 231:06,168[A ]| The pretty fountains run and talk no$2$ more. 231:06,169[A ]| Yet, when his chariot to$4$ the Crab returns, 231:06,170[A ]| The air, the earth, the very ocean burns. 231:06,171[A ]| The queen of night can boast no$2$ less a sway, 231:06,172[A ]| At least all humid things her power obey. 231:06,173[A ]| Malignant Saturn's star as much can claim, 231:06,174[A ]| With friendly Jove's, bright Mars and Venus' flame 231:06,175[A ]| And all the host of lights without a name. 231:06,176[A ]| Our elements beneath their influence lie, 231:06,177[A ]| Slaves to$4$ the very rabble of the sky. 231:06,178[A ]| But most when many meet in$4$ one abode, 231:06,179[A ]| Or when some planet enters a new road, 231:06,180[A ]| Far distant from the course he used to$9$ run, 231:06,181[A ]| Some mighty work of fate is to$9$ be done. 231:06,182[A ]| Long tracts of time indeed must first be spent 231:06,183[A ]| Before completion of the vast event; 231:06,184[A ]| But when the revolution once is made, 231:06,185[A ]| What mischiefs earth and sea at once invade! 231:06,186[A ]| Poor mortals then shall all extremes sustain, 231:06,187[A ]| While heaven dissolves in$4$ deluges of rain, 231:06,188[A ]| Which$6#1$ from the mountains with impetuous force 231:06,189[A ]| And headlong rage, trees, rocks and towns shall force. 231:06,190[A ]| Over-swelling Ganges then shall sweep the plain, 231:06,191[A ]| And peaceful Po outroar the stormy main. 231:06,192[A ]| In$4$ other parts the springs as low shall lie 231:06,193[A ]| And nymphs with tears exhausted streams supply. 231:06,194[A ]| Where neither drought nor deluges destroy, 231:06,195[A ]| The winds their utmost fury shall employ; 231:06,196[A ]| While hurricanes whole cities shall overthrow, 231:06,197[A ]| Or earthquakes gorge them in$4$ the depths below. 231:06,198[A ]| Perhaps the season shall arrive (if fate 231:06,199[A ]| And nature once agree upon$4$ the date) 231:06,200[A ]| When this most cultivated earth shall be 231:06,201[A ]| Unpeopled quite, or drenched beneath the sea; 231:06,202[A ]| When even the sun another course shall steer, 231:06,203[A ]| And other seasons constitute the year. 231:06,204[A ]| The wondering north shall see the springing vine, 231:06,205[A ]| And Moors admire at snow beneath the line. 231:06,206[A ]| New species then of creatures shall arise: 231:06,207[A ]| A new creation nature's self surprise. 231:06,208[A ]| Then youth shall lend fresh vigour to$4$ the earth, 231:06,209[A ]| And give a second breed of giants birth, 231:06,210[A ]| By$4$ whom a new assault shall be performed, 231:06,211[A ]| Hills heaped on$4$ hills and heaven once more be stormed. 231:06,212[A ]| Since Nature is then so$5#1$ liable to$9$ change, 231:06,213[A ]| Why should we think this late contagion strange? 231:06,214[A ]| Or that$3$ the planets where such mischiefs grow 231:06,215[A ]| Should shed their poison on$4$ the earth below? 231:06,216[A ]| Two hundred rollings years are passed away 231:06,217[A ]| Since Mars and Saturn in$4$ conjunction lay 231:06,218[A ]| When through the East an unknown fever raged 231:06,219[A ]| Of strange effects and by$4$ no$2$ arts assuaged. 231:06,220[A ]| From suffocated lungs with pain they drew 231:06,221[A ]| Their breath, and blood for$4$ spittle did ensue. 231:06,222[A ]| Four days the wretches with this plague were grieved 231:06,223[A ]| (O dismal sight!) and then by$4$ death relieved. 231:06,224[A ]| From thence to$4$ Persia the contagion came, 231:06,225[A ]| Of whom the Assyrians catched the spreading flame; 231:06,226[A ]| Euphrates next and Tigris did complain, 231:06,227[A ]| Arabia too styled happy now in$4$ vain; 231:06,228[A ]| Then Phrygia mourned, from whence it crossed the sea 231:06,229[A ]| (Too small to$9$ quench its flame) to$4$ Italy. 231:06,230[A ]| Then from this lower orb with me remove, 231:06,231[A ]| To$9$ view the starry palaces above; 231:06,232[A ]| Through all the roads of wandering planets rove 231:06,233[A ]| To$9$ search in$4$ what position they have stood, 231:06,234[A ]| And what conjectures were from them made good. 231:06,235[A ]| To$9$ find what signs did former times direct, 231:06,236[A ]| And what the present age is to$9$ expect. 231:06,237[A ]| From hence perhaps we shall with ease descry 231:06,238[A ]| The source of this stupendous malady. 231:06,239[A ]| Behold how Cancer with portenous harms 231:06,240[A ]| Before heaven's gate unfolds his threatening arms. 231:06,241[A ]| Prodigious ills must needs from thence ensue 231:06,242[A ]| In$4$ which$6#1$ one house we may distinctly view 231:06,243[A ]| A numerous cabal of stars conspire 231:06,244[A ]| To$9$ hurl at once on$4$ air their baneful fire. 231:06,245[A ]| All this the reverend artist did descry 231:06,246[A ]| Who$6#1$ nightly watched the motions of the sky: 231:06,247@b | Ye gods 231:06,247[A ]| (he cried) 231:06,247@b | what does your rage prepare; 231:06,248@b | What unknown plague engenders in$4$ the air? 231:06,249@b | Besides, I see dire wars on$4$ Europe shed, 231:06,250@b | Ausonian fields with native gore overspread. 231:06,251[A ]| Thus sung the sage, and to$9$ prevent debate 231:06,252[A ]| In$4$ writing left the story of our fate. 231:06,253[A ]| When any certain course of years is run, 231:06,254[A ]| Before the next revolution be begun, 231:06,255[A ]| Heaven's method is for$4$ Jove in$4$ all his state 231:06,256[A ]| To$9$ weigh events and to$9$ determine fate; 231:06,257[A ]| To$9$ search the book of destiny, and show 231:06,258[A ]| What change shall rise in$4$ heaven or earth below. 231:06,259[A ]| Behold him then, in$4$ awful robes arrayed, 231:06,260[A ]| And calling his known council to$4$ his aid. 231:06,261[A ]| Saturn and Mars the thundering summons call: 231:06,262[A ]| The Crab's portentous arms unlock the hall. 231:06,263[A ]| Mark with what various mien the gods repair; 231:06,264[A ]| First Mars with sparkling eyes and flaming hair, 231:06,265[A ]| So$5#1$ furious and addicted to$4$ alarms, 231:06,266[A ]| He dreams of battles, though in$4$ Venus' arms. 231:06,267[A ]| But see with what august and peaceful brow 231:06,268[A ]| (Of gold his chariot if the fates allow) 231:06,269[A ]| Great Jove appears, who$6#1$ does to$4$ all extend 231:06,270[A ]| Impartial justice, heaven and nature's friend. 231:06,271[A ]| Old Saturn last with heavy pace comes on$5$, 231:06,272[A ]| Loath to$9$ obey the summons of his son; 231:06,273[A ]| Oft going stopped, oft pondered in$4$ his mind 231:06,274[A ]| Heaven's empire lost, oft to$9$ return inclined; 231:06,275[A ]| Thus, much distracted, and arriving late, 231:06,276[A ]| Sits grudging down beside the chair of state. 231:06,277[A ]| Jove now unfolds what fate's dark laws contain, 231:06,278[A ]| Which$6#1$ Jove alone has wisdom to$9$ explain; 231:06,279[A ]| Sees ripening mischiefs ready to$9$ be hurled, 231:06,280[A ]| And much condoles the sufferings of the world. 231:06,281[A ]| Unfolded views death's adamantine gates, 231:06,282[A ]| War, slaughters, factions and subverted states. 231:06,283[A ]| But most astonished at a new disease 231:06,284[A ]| That$6#1$ must forthwith on$4$ helpless mortals seize. 231:06,285[A ]| These secrets he unfolds, and shakes the skies: 231:06,286[A ]| The gods condole and from the council rise. 231:06,287[A ]| Hell's agent thus no$2$ sooner quits his cage 231:06,288[A ]| But on$4$ the starting spheres he hurls his rage. 231:06,289[A ]| The purer orbs disdain the infernal foe, 231:06,290[A ]| And shake the taint upon$4$ the air below. 231:06,291[A ]| The grosser air receives the baneful seeds, 231:06,292[A ]| Converting to$4$ the poison which$6#1$ it feeds. 231:06,293[A ]| Whether the sun from earth this vapour drew 231:06,294[A ]| In$4$ late conjunction with his fiery crew, 231:06,295[A ]| Or from fermenting seas by$4$ Neptune sent 231:06,296[A ]| In$4$ envy to$4$ the higher element, 231:06,297[A ]| Is hard to$9$ say, or if more powers combined 231:06,298[A ]| Sent forth this prodigy to$9$ fright mankind. 231:06,299[A ]| The offices of nature to$9$ define 231:06,300[A ]| And to$4$ each cause a true effect assign 231:06,301[A ]| Must be a task both hard and doubtful too, 231:06,302[A ]| Since various consequences oft ensue, 231:06,303[A ]| Nor nature always to$4$ herself is true. 231:06,304[A ]| Some principles shall on$4$ the instant work, 231:06,305[A ]| Whilst others shall for$4$ tedious ages lurk. 231:06,306[A ]| Besides, the power of chance shall oft prevail 231:06,307[A ]| On$4$ nature's force and cause events to$9$ fail. 231:06,308[A ]| Nor is the influence of maladies 231:06,309[A ]| Less various than the seeds from whence they rise. 231:06,310[A ]| Sometimes the infected air hurts trees alone, 231:06,311[A ]| To$4$ grass and tender flowers pernicious known. 231:06,312[A ]| The blast sometimes destroys the furrowed soil 231:06,313[A ]| With mildewed ears, not worth the reaper's toil. 231:06,314[A ]| Or if some dale with grain seems more enriched, 231:06,315[A ]| It moulds and rots before the sheaves are pitched. 231:06,316[A ]| When earth yields store, yet oft some strange disease 231:06,317[A ]| Shall fall and only on$4$ poor cattle seize. 231:06,318[A ]| Here it shall sweep the stock, while there it sheds 231:06,319[A ]| Its fury only on$4$ devoted heads. 231:06,320[A ]| My own remembrance to$4$ this hour retains 231:06,321[A ]| An autumn drowned with never ceasing rains: 231:06,322[A ]| Yet this malignant luxury, the breed 231:06,323[A ]| Of goats alone did rue, the rest were freed. 231:06,324[A ]| See how at break of day their number is told; 231:06,325[A ]| See how the keeper drives them from the fold. 231:06,326[A ]| Behold him next beneath a hanging rock, 231:06,327[A ]| And cheering with his reed the browsing flock; 231:06,328[A ]| While them he charms, nor is himself less pleased, 231:06,329[A ]| With a sharp, sudden cough some darling kid is seized: 231:06,330[A ]| The cough his knell, for$3$ with a giddy round 231:06,331[A ]| He whirls and straight falls dead upon$4$ the ground. 231:06,332[A ]| This fever, thus to$4$ goats and kids severe, 231:06,333[A ]| While autumn held, confined his vengeance there. 231:06,334[A ]| Next spring, both lowing herd and bleating flock 231:06,335[A ]| At once it seized, spared none but swept the stock. 231:06,336[A ]| With such uncertainty from tainted skies 231:06,337[A ]| In$4$ bodies placed on$4$ earth effects arise. 231:06,338[A ]| Since then by$4$ dear experiment we find 231:06,339[A ]| Diseases various in$4$ their rise and kind. 231:06,340[A ]| Of this contagion let us take a view, 231:06,341[A ]| More terrible for$4$ being strange and new, 231:06,342[A ]| That$6#1$ with the proudest sons of slaughter vies, 231:06,343[A ]| And claims no$2$ lower kindred than the skies; 231:06,344[A ]| And as he did aloft conceive his flame, 231:06,345[A ]| The proud destroyer seeks no$2$ common game. 231:06,346[A ]| He scorns the well-plumed sporters of the flood; 231:06,347[A ]| He scorns the well-plumed singers of the wood; 231:06,348[A ]| He scorns the wanton browsers of the rock; 231:06,349[A ]| Disdains the lowing herd and bleating flock; 231:06,350[A ]| With wolf or bear despises to$9$ engage, 231:06,351[A ]| Nor can the generous horse provoke his rage; 231:06,352[A ]| The lords of nature only he annoys, 231:06,353[A ]| And human frame, heaven's images, destroys. 231:06,354[A ]| The blood's black viscous parts he seizes first 231:06,355[A ]| By$4$ whose malignant aliments he is nursed; 231:06,356[A ]| And before he can the fierce assault begin, 231:06,357[A ]| Factions of humours take his part within. 231:06,358[A ]| The strongest holds of nature thus he gains, 231:06,359[A ]| Quartering his cruel troops throughout the veins, 231:06,360[A ]| While some more noble seat the tyrant's throne contains. 231:06,361[A ]| Such principles brought this distemper forth; 231:06,362[A ]| Such aliments maintained the dreadful birth. 231:06,363[A ]| His certain signs and symptoms to$9$ rehearse 231:06,364[A ]| Is the next task of our instructing verse. 231:06,365[A ]| O may it prove of such a lasting date 231:06,366[A ]| To$9$ conquer time and triumph over fate. 231:06,367[A ]| Apollo's self inspires the useful song, 231:06,368[A ]| And all that$6#1$ to$4$ Apollo does belong, 231:06,369[A ]| Like$4$ him, should ever live and be forever young. 231:06,370[A ]| How shall posterity admire our skill, 231:06,371[A ]| Taught by$4$ the muse to$9$ know the lurking ill; 231:06,372[A ]| And when his dreadful visage they behold, 231:06,373[A ]| Cry, this is the disease whose signs of old 231:06,374[A ]| The inspired physician in$4$ bright numbers told. 231:06,375[A ]| For$3$ though the infernal pest should quit the earth, 231:06,376[A ]| Absconding in$4$ the hell that$6#1$ gave it birth, 231:06,377[A ]| Yet after lazy revolutions passed, 231:06,378[A ]| The unsuspected prodigy at last 231:06,379[A ]| Shall from the womb of night once more be hurled, 231:06,380[A ]| To$9$ infect the skies and to$9$ amaze the world. 231:06,381[A ]| What therefore seems most wondrous in$4$ his course 231:06,382[A ]| Is that$3$ he should so$5#1$ long conceal his force; 231:06,383[A ]| For$3$ when the foe his secret way has made 231:06,384[A ]| And in$4$ our entrails strong detachments laid, 231:06,385[A ]| Yet oft the moon four monthly rounds shall steer 231:06,386[A ]| Before convincing symptoms shall appear: 231:06,387[A ]| So$5#1$ long the malady shall lurk within 231:06,388[A ]| And grow confirmed before the danger is seen, 231:06,389[A ]| Yet with disturbance to$4$ the wretch diseased 231:06,390[A ]| Who$6#1$ with unwonted heaviness is seized; 231:06,391[A ]| With dropping spirits his affairs pursues, 231:06,392[A ]| And all his limbs their offices refuse. 231:06,393[A ]| The cheerful glories of his eyes decay 231:06,394[A ]| And from his cheeks the roses fade away; 231:06,395[A ]| A leaden hue over all his face is spread 231:06,396[A ]| And greater weights depress his drooping head; 231:06,397[A ]| Till by$4$ degrees the secret parts shall show 231:06,398[A ]| By$4$ open proofs the undermining foe, 231:06,399[A ]| Who$6#1$ now his dreadful ensigns shall display, 231:06,400[A ]| Devour and harass in$4$ the sight of day. 231:06,401[A ]| Again, when cheerful light has left the skies 231:06,402[A ]| And night's ungrateful shades and vapours rise, 231:06,403[A ]| When nature to$4$ our spirits sounds retreat 231:06,404[A ]| And to$4$ the vitals calls her straggling heat, 231:06,405[A ]| When the outworks are no$2$ more of warmth possessed, 231:06,406[A ]| Bloodless and with a load of humours pressed, 231:06,407[A ]| When every kind relief is retired within, 231:06,408[A ]| It is then the execrable pains begin. 231:06,409[A ]| Arms shoulders, legs with restless aches vexed 231:06,410[A ]| And with convulsions every nerve perplexed. 231:06,411[A ]| For$3$ when through all our veins the infection is spread 231:06,412[A ]| And by$4$ whatever should feed the body fed, 231:06,413[A ]| When nature strives the vitals to$9$ defend, 231:06,414[A ]| And all destructive humours outward send, 231:06,415[A ]| These being viscous, gross and loath to$9$ start, 231:06,416[A ]| In$4$ its dull march shall torture every part; 231:06,417[A ]| Whence to$4$ the bloodless nerves dire pains ensue, 231:06,418[A ]| At once contracted and extended too. 231:06,419[A ]| The thinner parts will$1$ yet not stick so$5#1$ fast, 231:06,420[A ]| But to$4$ the surface of the skin are cast, 231:06,421[A ]| Which$6#1$ in$4$ foul blotches over the body spread, 231:06,422[A ]| Profane the bosom and deform the head; 231:06,423[A ]| Here pustules in$4$ the form of acorns swelled, 231:06,424[A ]| In$4$ form alone, for$3$ these with stench are filled 231:06,425[A ]| Whose ripeness is corruption, that$6#1$ in$4$ time 231:06,426[A ]| Disdain confinement and discharge the slime. 231:06,427[A ]| Yet oft the foe would turn his forces back, 231:06,428[A ]| The brawn and inmost muscles to$9$ attack, 231:06,429[A ]| And pierce so$5#1$ deep, that$3$ the bare bones have been 231:06,430[A ]| Between the dreadful fleshy breaches seen. 231:06,431[A ]| When on$4$ the vocal parts his rage was spent 231:06,432[A ]| Imperfect sounds for$4$ tuneful speech was sent. 231:06,433[A ]| As on$4$ a springing plant, you have beheld 231:06,434[A ]| The juice that$6#1$ through the tender bark has swelled, 231:06,435[A ]| That$6#1$ from the sap's more viscous part did come, 231:06,436[A ]| Till by$4$ the sun condensed into a gum, 231:06,437[A ]| So$3$ when this bane is once received within, 231:06,438[A ]| With such eruptions he shall force the skin; 231:06,439[A ]| And when the humour for$4$ a time has flowed, 231:06,440[A ]| Grow fixed at last and harden to$4$ a node. 231:06,441[A ]| Hence some young swain, as on$4$ the rocks he stood 231:06,442[A ]| To$9$ view his picture in$4$ the crystal flood, 231:06,443[A ]| And finding there his lovely cheeks deformed, 231:06,444[A ]| Against the stars, against the gods he stormed. 231:06,445[A ]| Meanwhile the sable wings of night are spread 231:06,446[A ]| And balmy sleep on$4$ every creature shed. 231:06,447[A ]| These wretches only no$2$ repose could take, 231:06,448[A ]| By$4$ this tormenting fiend still kept awake; 231:06,449[A ]| Impatient till the morn restored the light, 231:06,450[A ]| Then cursed her beams and wished again for$4$ night. 231:06,451[A ]| Ceres in$4$ vain her blessings did afford: 231:06,452[A ]| In$4$ vain the flowing goblet crowned the board. 231:06,453[A ]| No$2$ comfort they in$4$ large possessions had 231:06,454[A ]| Of farms or towns, but even in$4$ banquets sad. 231:06,455[A ]| In$4$ vain the streams, and meads they did frequent: 231:06,456[A ]| The dismal thought pursued wherever they went; 231:06,457[A ]| And when for$4$ prospect they would climb the hill, 231:06,458[A ]| The dire remembrance hagged their fancy still. 231:06,459[A ]| In$4$ vain the gods themselves they did invoke, 231:06,460[A ]| Adorned their shrines and made their altars smoke: 231:06,461[A ]| They bribed and prayed, yet still reliefless lay, 231:06,462[A ]| Their offered gums consumed less fast than they. 231:06,463[A ]| Shall I relate what I myself beheld, 231:06,464[A ]| Where Ollius stream with gentle plenty swelled? 231:06,465[A ]| In$4$ those fair meads where Ollius cuts his way, 231:06,466[A ]| A youth of godlike form I did survey, 231:06,467[A ]| By$4$ all the world besides unparalleled, 231:06,468[A ]| And even in$4$ Italy by$4$ none excelled. 231:06,469[A ]| First signs of manhood on$4$ his cheeks were shown, 231:06,470[A ]| A tender harvest, and but thinly sown, 231:06,471[A ]| Besides those charms that$6#1$ did his person grace, 231:06,472[A ]| Descended from a rich and noble race. 231:06,473[A ]| What transport in$4$ spectators did he breed, 231:06,474[A ]| Mounted and managing the fiery steed; 231:06,475[A ]| What joy at once and terror did we feel 231:06,476[A ]| When he prepared for$4$ field and shone in$4$ steel; 231:06,477[A ]| Of equal strength and skill for$4$ exercise, 231:06,478[A ]| All conflicts tried, but never lost a prize. 231:06,479[A ]| Oft in$4$ the chase his courser he would forego, 231:06,480[A ]| Trust his own feet and turn the swiftest roe. 231:06,481[A ]| For$4$ him each nymph, for$4$ him each goddess strove, 231:06,482[A ]| Of hill, of plain, of meadow, stream and grove; 231:06,483[A ]| Nor can we doubt that$3$ in$4$ this numerous train, 231:06,484[A ]| Someone (neglected) did to$4$ heaven complain, 231:06,485[A ]| Who$6#1$ though in$4$ vain she loved, yet did not curse in$4$ vain. 231:06,486[A ]| For$3$ whilst the youth did to$4$ his strength confide, 231:06,487[A ]| And nerves in$4$ every task of hardship tried, 231:06,488[A ]| This finished piece, this celebrated frame, 231:06,489[A ]| The mansion of a loathed disease became: 231:06,490[A ]| But of such baneful and malignant kind 231:06,491[A ]| As ages past never knew, and future never shall find. 231:06,492[A ]| Now might you see his spring of youth decay; 231:06,493[A ]| The verdure die, the blossoms fall away: 231:06,494[A ]| The foul infection over his body spread, 231:06,495[A ]| Profanes his bosom and deforms his head. 231:06,496[A ]| His wretched limbs with filth and stench overflow, 231:06,497[A ]| While flesh divides and shows the bones below. 231:06,498[A ]| Dire ulcers (can the gods permit them?) prey 231:06,499[A ]| On$4$ his fair eye-balls and devour their day, 231:06,500[A ]| Whilst the neat pyramid below falls mouldering quite away. 231:06,501[A ]| Him neighbouring Alps bewailed with constant dew: 231:06,502[A ]| Ollius no$2$ more his wonted passage knew. 231:06,503[A ]| Hills, valleys, rocks, streams, groves, his face bemoaned, 231:06,504[A ]| Sebinus lake from deepest caverns groaned. 231:06,505[A ]| From hence malicious Saturn's force is known, 231:06,506[A ]| From whose malignant orb this plague was thrown; 231:06,507[A ]| To$4$ whom more cruel Mars assistance lent, 231:06,508[A ]| And clubbed his influence to$4$ the dire event. 231:06,509[A ]| Nor could the malice of the stars suffice 231:06,510[A ]| To$9$ make such execrable mischief rise; 231:06,511[A ]| For$3$ certainly before this disease began 231:06,512[A ]| Through hell's dark courts the cursing furies ran, 231:06,513[A ]| Where to$4$ astonished ghosts they did relate 231:06,514[A ]| In$4$ dreadful songs the burthen of our fate; 231:06,515[A ]| The Stygian pool did to$4$ the bottom rake 231:06,516[A ]| And from its dregs the cursed ingredients take, 231:06,517[A ]| Which$6#1$ scattered since through Europe wide and far 231:06,518[A ]| Bred pestilence and more consuming war. 231:06,000[A ]| 231:06,000[A ]| 231:07,000@@@@@| 231:07,000[' ]| 231:07,000[' ]| 231:07,001[A ]| How justly now might I aspire 231:07,002[A ]| To$4$ mighty Pindar's force and fire! 231:07,003[A ]| When gods and god-like kings he did rehearse 231:07,004[A ]| And crowned them with immortal verse, 231:07,005[A ]| Worth all their statues, by$4$ the skilfullest hand, 231:07,006[A ]| That$6#1$ only could for$4$ short-lived ages stand. 231:07,007[A ]| But the possession of the golden lyre, 231:07,008[A ]| Where all the charms of harmony conspire, 231:07,009[A ]| The muse to$4$ Pindar did confine: 231:07,010[A ]| Pindar alone she does permit 231:07,011[A ]| In$4$ wit's sublimest orb to$9$ sit 231:07,012[A ]| And, like$4$ the sun, without a rival shine. 231:07,013[A ]| Zeal therefore shall perform the muse's part 231:07,014[A ]| And poetry's deficiencies supply; 231:07,015[A ]| Zeal that$6#1$ shall vie with art 231:07,016[A ]| And mount the song as high. 231:07,017[A ]| Besides, my theme, so$5#1$ charming, so$5#1$ divine, 231:07,018[A ]| Without a muse shall raise poetic fire; 231:07,019[A ]| A queen that$6#1$ can beyond a muse inspire, 231:07,020[A ]| A queen more sacred than the nine. 231:07,021[A ]| O best of sovereigns, from your lofty sphere 231:07,022[A ]| Vouchsafe your trembling bard to$9$ cheer, 231:07,023[A ]| Vouchsafe your votary to$9$ hear; 231:07,024[A ]| Who$6#1$ in$4$ sincere though slender lays 231:07,025[A ]| Attempts the triumphs of your praise, 231:07,026[A ]| And to$9$ attempt is all ~~ 231:07,027[A ]| For$3$ what rash mortal will$1$ pretend 231:07,028[A ]| In$4$ words to$9$ comprehend 231:07,029[A ]| Virtues where speech no$2$ aid affords, 231:07,030[A ]| Graces beyond the narrow bounds of words, 231:07,031[A ]| Or number royal gifts that$6#1$ number's power transcend? 231:07,032[A ]| To$4$ you (her sacred guardian here) 231:07,033[A ]| Happy Britannia ever will$1$ address 231:07,034[A ]| And with repeated vows confess 231:07,035[A ]| That$3$, in$4$ her sovereign sphere, 231:07,036[A ]| Your equal never rose nor shall hereafter rise. 231:07,037[A ]| The best and greatest prize 231:07,038[A ]| That$6#1$ fate ever gave, or ever shall bestow; 231:07,039[A ]| And yet, for$4$ ought we mortals know, 231:07,040[A ]| Another golden season may be seen, 231:07,041[A ]| A second golden age, but never such a queen! 231:07,042[A ]| A queen whom all united virtues crown, 231:07,043[A ]| That$6#1$ singly gave her ancestors renown: 231:07,044[A ]| She does their precious ore engross 231:07,045[A ]| Without the least remains of dross, 231:07,046[A ]| So$5#1$ sublimated, so$5#1$ refined, 231:07,047[A ]| That$3$ now those sons of light, 231:07,048[A ]| So$5#1$ glorious in$4$ their night, 231:07,049[A ]| Languish like$4$ stars by$4$ the sun's beams outshined. 231:07,050[A ]| Amidst these triumphs of her state, 231:07,051[A ]| Advance to$4$ such a dangerous height, 231:07,052[A ]| And jealous of her future fate, 231:07,053[A ]| Posterity is now Britannia's care. 231:07,054[A ]| For$4$ them she prays ~~ What therefore is her prayer? 231:07,055[A ]| Not for$4$ increase of wealth, more Blenheim spoils, 231:07,056[A ]| More trophies of her hero's toils, 231:07,057[A ]| To$9$ hear her naval thunder roar, 231:07,058[A ]| Alarming all the Atlantic shore; 231:07,059[A ]| Great Anna there new garlands win, 231:07,060[A ]| New conquests there begin, 231:07,061[A ]| Where Hercules gave over. 231:07,062[A ]| Successfully for$4$ these she has addressed 231:07,063[A ]| But sums her wishes now in$4$ one request, 231:07,064[A ]| And does for$4$ that$6#2$ with utmost ardour call: 231:07,065[A ]| The mighty blessing that$6#1$ includes them all. 231:07,066[A ]| That$3$ such a princess, so$5#1$ beloved 231:07,067[A ]| By$4$ heaven, by$4$ Britain and by$4$ all approved, 231:07,068[A ]| Whom every nation wish their own, 231:07,069[A ]| To$9$ bless her people long may long possess her throne. 231:07,070[A ]| Long may my queen survive to$9$ be 231:07,071[A ]| By$4$ justice, prudence, constancy, 231:07,072[A ]| The true vice-gerent of the deity; 231:07,073[A ]| To$9$ cherish peace, support allies, 231:07,074[A ]| And haughty tyrants to$9$ chastise; 231:07,075[A ]| The griefs of Europe to$9$ redress, 231:07,076[A ]| The universal patroness. 231:07,077[A ]| Live Anna, for$4$ the public welfare live; 231:07,078[A ]| And live to$9$ share the blessings that$6#1$ you give. 231:07,079[A ]| In$4$ your protection safe our law remains, 231:07,080[A ]| Sweet liberty , with you, her ancient rights regains; 231:07,081[A ]| With you religion is crowned, with you religion reigns. 231:07,082[A ]| Then since assured, wherever you go 231:07,083[A ]| Of everlasting welcome there, 231:07,084[A ]| May your return to$4$ native skies be slow. 231:07,085[A ]| This is the general prayer. 231:07,086[A ]| While you remain, our world is blessed; 231:07,087[A ]| When you remove ~~ I leave the rest 231:07,088[A ]| To$9$ be in$4$ sighs expressed. 231:08,000@@@@@| 231:08,000[' ]| 231:08,000[' ]| 231:08,001[A ]| I am sick of Rome, and wish myself conveyed 231:08,002[A ]| Where freezing seas obstruct the merchant's trade, 231:08,003[A ]| When hypocrites read lectures, and a sot, 231:08,004[A ]| Because into a gown and pulpit got, 231:08,005[A ]| Though surfeit-gorged, and reeking from the stews, 231:08,006[A ]| Nothing but abstinence for$4$ his theme will$1$ choose. 231:08,007[A ]| The rakehells too pretend to$4$ learning ~~ Why? 231:08,008[A ]| Chrysippus' statue decks their library. 231:08,009[A ]| Who$6#1$ makes his closet finest is most read: 231:08,010[A ]| The dolt that$6#1$ with an Aristotle's head 231:08,011[A ]| Carved to$4$ the life has once adorned his shelf, 231:08,012[A ]| Straight sets up$5$ for$4$ a Stagyrite himself. 231:08,013[A ]| Precise their look but, to$4$ the brothel come, 231:08,014[A ]| You will$1$ know the price of philosophic bum. 231:08,015[A ]| You would swear, if you their bristled hides surveyed, 231:08,016[A ]| That$3$ for$4$ a bear's caresses they are made; 231:08,017[A ]| Yet of their obscene part they take such care, 231:08,018[A ]| That$3$ (like$4$ baboons) they still keep podex bare. 231:08,019[A ]| To$9$ see it so$5#1$ sleek and trimmed the surgeon smiles 231:08,020[A ]| And scarcely can for$4$ laughing lance the piles. 231:08,021[A ]| Since silence seems to$9$ carry wisdom's power, 231:08,022[A ]| The affected rogues, like$4$ clocks, speak once an hour. 231:08,023[A ]| Those grizzled locks which$6#1$ nature did provide 231:08,024[A ]| In$4$ plenteous growth their asses ears to$9$ hide, 231:08,025[A ]| The formal slaves reduce to$4$ a degree 231:08,026[A ]| Short of their eye-brows ~~ Now I honour thee, 231:08,027[A ]| Thee Peribonius, thou professed he-whore, 231:08,028[A ]| And all thy crimes impute to$4$ nature's score: 231:08,029[A ]| Thou, as in$4$ harlot's dress thou art attired, 231:08,030[A ]| For$4$ ought I know, with harlot's itch art fired. 231:08,031[A ]| Thy form seems for$4$ the pathic trade designed, 231:08,032[A ]| And generously thou dost own thy kind. 231:08,033[A ]| But what of those lewd miscreants must become, 231:08,034[A ]| Who$6#1$ preach morality and shake the bum? 231:08,035[A ]| Vallius cries, 231:08,035@b | shall I fear Sextus' doom, 231:08,036@b | Whose haunches are the common sink of Rome? 231:08,037[A ]| Let him cry blackamoor-devil, whose skin is white, 231:08,038[A ]| And bandy-legs, who$6#1$ treads himself upright; 231:08,039[A ]| Let him reprove that$6#1$ is innocent ~~ in$4$ vain, 231:08,040[A ]| The Gracchi of sedition must complain. 231:08,041[A ]| It would make you swear the planets from their spheres, 231:08,042[A ]| Should Verres peach thieves, Milo murderers, 231:08,043[A ]| Clodius tax bawds, Cethegus Catiline, 231:08,044[A ]| Or Scylla's pupils Scylla's rules decline. 231:08,045[A ]| Yet we have seen a modern magistrate 231:08,046[A ]| Restore those rigid laws that$6#1$ did create 231:08,047[A ]| In$4$ Mars and Venus dread himself the while 231:08,048[A ]| With impious drugs and potions did beguile 231:08,049[A ]| The teeming Julia's womb, and thence did wrest 231:08,050[A ]| Crude births that$6#1$ yet the incestuous sire confessed. 231:08,051[A ]| How shall such hypocrites reform the state 231:08,052[A ]| On$4$ whom the brothels can recriminate? 231:08,053[A ]| Of this we have an instance great and new 231:08,054[A ]| In$4$ a cock-zealot of this preaching crew, 231:08,055[A ]| Whose late harangue the gaping rabble drew. 231:08,056[A ]| His theme, as fate would have it, was fornication, 231:08,057[A ]| And as in$4$ the fury of his declamation 231:08,058[A ]| He cried, 231:08,058@b | Why sleeps the Julian law, that$6#1$ awed 231:08,059@b | This vice? ~~ 231:08,059[A ]| Laronia, an industrious bawd 231:08,060[A ]| (As bawds will$1$ run to$4$ lectures), nettled much 231:08,061[A ]| To$9$ have her copy-hold so$5#1$ nearly touched, 231:08,062[A ]| With a disdainful smile replied, 231:08,062@c | Blessed times 231:08,063@c | That$6#1$ made thee censor of the age's crimes! 231:08,064@c | Rome now must needs reform and vice be stopped 231:08,065@c | Since a third Cato from the clouds is dropped. 231:08,066@c | But tell me, sir, what perfume strikes the air 231:08,067@c | From your most reverend neck overgrown with hair? 231:08,068@c | For$3$ modestly, we may presume, I trow, 231:08,069@c | It is not your natural grain ~~ The price I would know, 231:08,070@c | And where it is sold. Direct me to$4$ the street 231:08,071@c | And shop, for$3$ I with no$2$ such essence meet. 231:08,072@c | Let me entreat you sir, for$4$ your own sake 231:08,073@c | Use caution, and permit the laws to$9$ take 231:08,074@c | A harmless nap, lest the Scantinian wake. 231:08,075@c | Our wise forefathers took their measures right, 231:08,076@c | Nor wreaked on$4$ fornicators, all their spite, 231:08,077@c | But left a limbo for$4$ the sodomite. 231:08,078@c | If you commission-courts must needs erect 231:08,079@c | For$4$ manners, put the test to$4$ your own sect. 231:08,080@c | But you by$4$ number think yourselves secure, 231:08,081@c | While our thin squadron must the brunt endure. 231:08,082@c | With grief I must confess our muster is few 231:08,083@c | And much with civil broils impaired, while you 231:08,084@c | Are to$4$ the devil and to$4$ each other true. 231:08,085@c | Your penal laws against us are enlarged, 231:08,086@c | On$4$ whom no$2$ crimes, like$4$ what you act, are charged. 231:08,087@c | Flavia may now and then turn up$5$ for$4$ bread, 231:08,088@c | But chastely with Catulla lies a bed. 231:08,089@c | Your Hispo acts both sexes' parts, before 231:08,090@c | A fornicator and behind a whore. 231:08,091@c | We never invade your walks; the clients' cause 231:08,092@c | We leave to$4$ your confounding and the laws. 231:08,093@c | If now and then an Amazonian dame 231:08,094@c | Dares fight a public prize, it is sure less shame 231:08,095@c | Than to$9$ behold your unnerved sex set in$5$ 231:08,096@c | To$4$ needle-work and like$4$ a damsel spin. 231:08,097@c | How Hister's bondman his sole heir became, 231:08,098@c | And his conniving spouse so$5#1$ rich a dame, 231:08,099@c | Is known, that$6#2$ wife with wealth must needs be sped 231:08,100@c | Who$6#1$ is content to$9$ make a third in$4$ bed. 231:08,101@c | You nymphs that$6#1$ would to$4$ coach and six arrive, 231:08,102@c | Marry, keep counsel, and you are sure to$9$ thrive! 231:08,103@c | Yet these obnoxious men, without remorse, 231:08,104@c | Against our tribe will$1$ put the laws in$4$ force, 231:08,105@c | Clip the dove's wing and give the vulture course. 231:08,106[A ]| Thus spoke the matron ~~ The convicted crew 231:08,107[A ]| From so$5#1$ direct a charge like$4$ lightning flew. 231:08,108[A ]| It must be so$5#2$ ~~ Nor, vain Metellus, shall 231:08,109[A ]| From Rome's tribunal thy harangues prevail 231:08,110[A ]| Against harlotry while thou art clad so$5#1$ thin 231:08,111[A ]| That$3$ through thy cobweb-robe we see thy skin 231:08,112[A ]| As thou declaimest ~~ Fabulla is, you say, 231:08,113[A ]| A whore ~~ I own it; so$3$ is Carsinia; 231:08,114[A ]| Rank prostitutes, therefore without remorse 231:08,115[A ]| Punish the strumpets: give the law its course. 231:08,116[A ]| But when you have sentenced them, Metellus, know 231:08,117[A ]| They would blush to$9$ appear so$5#1$ loosely dressed as you. 231:08,118[A ]| You say the dog-star reigns, whose sultry fire 231:08,119[A ]| Melts you to$4$ death even in$4$ that$6#2$ light attire. 231:08,120[A ]| Go naked then, it were better to$9$ be mad 231:08,121[A ]| (Which$6#1$ has a privilege) than so$5#1$ lewdly clad! 231:08,122[A ]| How would our mountain sires, returned from plough 231:08,123[A ]| Or battle, such a silken judge allow? 231:08,124[A ]| Canst thou restore old manners, or retrench 231:08,125[A ]| Rome's pride, who$6#1$ comest transparent to$4$ the bench? 231:08,126[A ]| This mode, in$4$ which$6#1$ thou singly dost appear, 231:08,127[A ]| By$4$ thy example shall get footing here, 231:08,128[A ]| Till it has quite depraved the Roman stock 231:08,129[A ]| As one infected sheep confounds the flock. 231:08,130[A ]| Nor will$1$ this crime, Metellus, be thy worst: 231:08,131[A ]| No$2$ man ever reached the heights of vice at first. 231:08,132[A ]| For$3$ Vice like$4$ virtue by$4$ degrees must grow; 231:08,133[A ]| Thus, from this wanton dress, Metellus, thou 231:08,134[A ]| With those polluted priests at last shall join 231:08,135[A ]| Who$6#1$ female chaplets round their temples twine, 231:08,136[A ]| And with perverted rites profane the goddess' shrine; 231:08,137[A ]| Where such vile practices between males are passed 231:08,138[A ]| As makes our matrons lewd nocturnals chaste. 231:08,139[A ]| Cotyttus orgies scarce are more obscene, 231:08,140[A ]| For$3$ thus the effeminate priests themselves demean. 231:08,141[A ]| With jet-black pencils one his eye-brows dyes 231:08,142[A ]| And adds new fire to$4$ his lascivious eyes: 231:08,143[A ]| Another in$4$ a glass-priapus swills, 231:08,144[A ]| While twisted gold his plaited tresses fills; 231:08,145[A ]| A female robe, and to$9$ complete the farce 231:08,146[A ]| His servant not by$4$ Jove but Juno swears. 231:08,147[A ]| One holds a mirror, pathic Otho's shield, 231:08,148[A ]| In$4$ which$6#1$ he viewed before he marched to$4$ field, 231:08,149[A ]| Nor Ajax with more pride his seven-fold targe did wield. 231:08,150[A ]| Oh noble subject for$4$ new annals fit, 231:08,151[A ]| In$4$ musty fame's records unmentioned yet! 231:08,152[A ]| A looking-glass must load the imperial car, 231:08,153[A ]| The most important carriage of the war! 231:08,154[A ]| Galba to$9$ kill he thought a general's part 231:08,155[A ]| But, as a courtier, used the nicest art 231:08,156[A ]| To$9$ keep his skin from tan. Before the fight 231:08,157[A ]| Would paint, and set his soiled complexion right; 231:08,158[A ]| A softness which$6#1$ Semiramis never knew, 231:08,159[A ]| When once she had the field and foe in$4$ view, 231:08,160[A ]| Nor Egypt's queen when she from Actium flew. 231:08,161[A ]| No$2$ chaste discourse their festivals afford, 231:08,162[A ]| Obsceneness is the language of their board: 231:08,163[A ]| Soft lisping tones, taught by$4$ some bald-pate priest, 231:08,164[A ]| For$4$ skilful palate, master of the feast. 231:08,165[A ]| A pack of prostitutes, unnerved and rife 231:08,166[A ]| For$4$ the operation of a Phrygian knife; 231:08,167[A ]| For$3$ from such pathics it were but just to$9$ take 231:08,168[A ]| Those manly parts of which$6#1$ no$2$ use they make. 231:08,169[A ]| Gracchus, it is said, gave to$4$ his trumpeter 231:08,170[A ]| Four hundred sesterces ~~ For$4$ what? ~~ in$4$ dower. 231:08,171[A ]| The motion is liked, the parties are agreed 231:08,172[A ]| And for$4$ performance seal a formal deed; 231:08,173[A ]| Guests are bespoke, a wedding supper made, 231:08,174[A ]| The wonted joy is wished, that$6#2$ done ~~ 231:08,175[A ]| The he-bride in$4$ his bridegroom's arms is laid! 231:08,176[A ]| O peers of Rome! need these stupendous times 231:08,177[A ]| A censer or aruspex for$4$ such crimes? 231:08,178[A ]| The prodigy less monstrous would appear 231:08,179[A ]| If women calves, or heifers lambs should bear! 231:08,180[A ]| In$4$ bridal robe and veil the pathic is dressed, 231:08,181[A ]| Who$6#1$ bore the ponderous shield at Mars his feast. 231:08,182[A ]| Father of Rome, say what detested clime 231:08,183[A ]| Taught Latian shepherds so$5#1$ abhorred a crime? 231:08,184[A ]| Say, thundering Mars, from whence the nettle sprung 231:08,185[A ]| Whose venom first thy noble offspring stung? 231:08,186[A ]| Behold! a man by$4$ birth and fortune great 231:08,187[A ]| Weds with a man; yet from the etherial seat 231:08,188[A ]| No$2$ rattling of thy brazen wheels we hear 231:08,189[A ]| Nor is earth pierced with thy avenging spear! 231:08,190[A ]| Oh! if thy jurisdiction (Mars) falls short 231:08,191[A ]| To$9$ punish mischiefs of so$5#1$ vast import, 231:08,192[A ]| Complain to$4$ Jove, and move the higher court. 231:08,193[A ]| For$4$ shame redress this scandal, or resign 231:08,194[A ]| The province to$4$ some power that$6#1$ is more divine. 231:08,195[A ]| Tomorrow early in$4$ Quirinus' vale 231:08,196[A ]| I must attend ~~ Why? ~~ Thereby hangs a tale: 231:08,197[A ]| A male friend is to$9$ be married to$4$ a male. 231:08,198[A ]| It is true the wedding is carried privately, 231:08,199[A ]| The parties being at present somewhat shy; 231:08,200[A ]| But that$3$ they own the match, before long you will$1$ hear, 231:08,201[A ]| And see it in$4$ the public register. 231:08,202[A ]| But one sore grief does these he-brides perplex: 231:08,203[A ]| Though they debase, they cannot change their sex; 231:08,204[A ]| Nor yet, by$4$ help of all their wicked art, 231:08,205[A ]| Bring offspring to$9$ secure their husband's heart. 231:08,206[A ]| Nature too much in$4$ the dire embrace is forced 231:08,207[A ]| But never joins influence with desires so$5#1$ cursed: 231:08,208[A ]| Incestuous births, and monsters may appear, 231:08,209[A ]| But teeming males, not earth nor hell can bear. 231:08,210[A ]| Yet Gracchus, thou degenerate son of fame, 231:08,211[A ]| Thy pranks are stigmatised with greater blame: 231:08,212[A ]| Theirs was a private, thine an open shame, 231:08,213[A ]| Who$6#1$ like$4$ a fencer on$4$ a public stage 231:08,214[A ]| Hast made thyself the scandal of the age. 231:08,215[A ]| Nor can Rome's noblest blood with thine compare 231:08,216[A ]| While thou makest pastime for$4$ the theatre. 231:08,217[A ]| To$4$ what dire cause can we assign these crimes 231:08,218[A ]| But to$4$ that$6#2$ reigning atheism of the times? 231:08,219[A ]| Ghosts, Stygian lakes and frogs with croaking note, 231:08,220[A ]| And Charon wafting souls in$4$ leaky boat 231:08,221[A ]| Are now thought fables, to$9$ fright fools conceived, 231:08,222[A ]| Or children, and by$4$ children scarce believed. 231:08,223[A ]| Yet, give thou credit, what can we suppose 231:08,224[A ]| The temperate Curii and the Scipios, 231:08,225[A ]| What will$1$ Fabricius and Camillus think 231:08,226[A ]| When they behold, from their Elysium's brink, 231:08,227[A ]| An atheist's soul to$4$ last perdition sink? 231:08,228[A ]| How will$1$ they from the assaulted banks rebound 231:08,229[A ]| And wish for$4$ sacred rites to$9$ purge the unhallowed ground. 231:08,230[A ]| In$4$ vain, O Rome, thou dost thy conquest boast 231:08,231[A ]| Beyond the Orcades short-nighted coast, 231:08,232[A ]| Since free the conquered provinces remain 231:08,233[A ]| From crimes that$6#1$ thy imperial city stain 231:08,234[A ]| Yet rumour speaks, if we may credit fame, 231:08,235[A ]| Of one Armenian youth who$6#1$, since he came, 231:08,236[A ]| Has learned the impious trade and does exceed 231:08,237[A ]| The lewdest pathics of our Roman breed. 231:08,238[A ]| Blessings of commerce! he was sent, it is said, 231:08,239[A ]| For$4$ breeding hither, and he is fairly bred. 231:08,240[A ]| Fly foreign youths from our polluted streets 231:08,241[A ]| And, before unmanned, regain your native seats, 231:08,242[A ]| Lest while for$4$ traffic here too long you say 231:08,243[A ]| You learn at last to$9$ trade the Italian way; 231:08,244[A ]| And, with cursed merchandise returning home, 231:08,245[A ]| Stock all your country with the figs of Rome. 232:01,000@@@@@| 232:01,000[' ]| 232:01,001[A ]| What though the unwearied sun 232:01,002[A ]| Already has his race begun, 232:01,003[A ]| Already summoned to$4$ their pleasant toil 232:01,004[A ]| The inhabitants of the open soil? 232:01,005[A ]| What comfort in$4$ his lustre can I find, 232:01,006[A ]| If yet no$2$ cheerful glimpse begin 232:01,007[A ]| A glorious morn within, 232:01,008[A ]| But mists and darkness still oppress my mind? 232:01,009[A ]| What entertainment can it be 232:01,010[A ]| To$9$ hear the tuneful birds from every tree 232:01,011[A ]| With grateful songs the rising day salute, 232:01,012[A ]| Unless my fancy with the music suit? 232:01,013[A ]| I shall, alas, as soon rejoice 232:01,014[A ]| At the ominous raven's doleful voice 232:01,015[A ]| Or be diverted with the bell 232:01,016[A ]| That$6#1$ rings my own, or dearer friends untimely knell. 232:01,017[A ]| Whilst in$4$ my breast the weather's fair 232:01,018[A ]| I never enquire the temper of the air: 232:01,019[A ]| So$3$ reason over my appetites bear sway 232:01,020[A ]| I am unconcerned what planet rules the day. 232:01,021[A ]| If hushed and silent my fierce passions lie, 232:01,022[A ]| The loudest gusts that$6#1$ rend the sky 232:01,023[A ]| Invite repose and make my sleep more sound. 232:01,024[A ]| The tempest in$4$ my breast 232:01,025[A ]| Alone can break my rest: 232:01,026[A ]| Even hurricanes abroad are found 232:01,027[A ]| To$9$ damage less than smallest winds hatched underground. 232:02,000@@@@@| 232:02,000[' ]| 232:02,001[A ]| Shame on$4$ thy beard! That$6#1$ canst a bugbear dread; 232:02,002[A ]| Fear death whom though so$5#1$ oft hast seen, 232:02,003[A ]| So$5#1$ oft his guest at funerals been; 232:02,004[A ]| Thyself in$4$ the better half already dead! 232:02,005[A ]| It is strange to$9$ see that$6#2$ frozen head 232:02,006[A ]| Such plenteous moisture shed. 232:02,007[A ]| Whence can this stream be fed? 232:02,008[A ]| The tears were just which$6#1$ at thy birth did flow, 232:02,009[A ]| For$3$ then, alas, thou hadst to$9$ engage 232:02,010[A ]| Life's inconveniences; but now 232:02,011[A ]| Thou are allowed to$9$ quit the tragic stage. 232:02,012[A ]| Now to$9$ be careful to$9$ prolong the scene 232:02,013[A ]| And act thy miseries over again 232:02,014[A ]| Is folly not to$9$ be forgiven in$4$ even thy doting age. 232:02,015[A ]| Full fourscore years (bless us a dreadful space) 232:02,016[A ]| The world has used thee ill; 232:02,017[A ]| Abused thee to$4$ thy face. 232:02,018[A ]| And, dotard, canst thou still 232:02,019[A ]| Solicit her embrace? 232:02,020[A ]| In$4$ vain thou covetest to$9$ enjoy 232:02,021[A ]| This haughty dame, when age and pains 232:02,022[A ]| Have shrunk thy nerves and chilled thy veins, 232:02,023[A ]| Who$6#1$ to$4$ thy flourishing years was so$5#1$ reserved and coy. 232:02,024[A ]| Can cramps, catarrhs and palsies be 232:02,025[A ]| Such ravishing company 232:02,026[A ]| That$3$ thou shouldst mourn the loss of their society? 232:02,027[A ]| What pleasures can the grave deprive 232:02,028[A ]| Thy senses of? What inconvenience give 232:02,029[A ]| Which$6#1$ thou art exempted from alive? 232:02,030[A ]| At worst thou canst but have 232:02,031[A ]| Cold lodging in$4$ the grave; 232:02,032[A ]| Nor liest thou warmer now though covered over 232:02,033[A ]| In$4$ fur till thy faint limbs can bear no$2$ more. 232:02,034[A ]| Thou sleepst each night in$4$ so$5#1$ much cere-cloth bound 232:02,035[A ]| Thou wouldst need no$2$ more wert thou to$9$ take thy lodging underground. 232:02,036[A ]| Go, lay thy frivolous hopes of health aside; 232:02,037[A ]| No$2$ longer potions tame, 232:02,038[A ]| No$2$ more incisions make: 232:02,039[A ]| Let thy dull flesh no$2$ more be scarified. 232:02,040[A ]| Resign, resign thy fated breath, 232:02,041[A ]| Consult with no$2$ physician more, but death. 232:02,042[A ]| When all thy surgeons' instruments prove vain, 232:02,043[A ]| His never-failing dart 232:02,044[A ]| Will$1$ bleed thee gently at thy heart 232:02,045[A ]| And let out life, the source of all thy pain! 232:02,046[A ]| Let then thy funeral pile be made 232:02,047[A ]| With rosemary and cypress graced, 232:02,048[A ]| Aloft on$4$ it thy carcase placed; 232:02,049[A ]| Beside thee there thy crutches laid: 232:02,050[A ]| Those utensils will$1$ thus oblige thee more, 232:02,051[A ]| Fomenting the kind flame, than when they bore 232:02,053[A ]| Thy crazy and decrepit limbs before! 232:03,000@@@@@| 232:03,000[' ]| 232:03,001[A ]| Strange magic of thy wit and style 232:03,002[A ]| Which$6#1$ to$4$ their griefs mankind can reconcile! 232:03,003[A ]| Whilst thy Philander's tuneful voice we hear 232:03,004[A ]| Condoling our disastrous state, 232:03,005[A ]| Touched with a sense of our hard fate 232:03,006[A ]| We sigh perhaps, or drop a tear; 232:03,007[A ]| But he the mournful song so$5#1$ sweetly sings 232:03,008[A ]| That$3$ more of pleasure than regret it brings. 232:03,009[A ]| With such becoming grief 232:03,010[A ]| The Trojan chief 232:03,011[A ]| Troy's conflagration did relate, 232:03,012[A ]| Whilst even the sufferers in$4$ the fire drew near 232:03,013[A ]| And with a greedy ear 232:03,014[A ]| Devoured the story of their own subverted state. 232:03,015[A ]| Kind heaven (as to$4$ her darling son) to$4$ thee 232:03,016[A ]| A double portion did impart, 232:03,017[A ]| A gift of painting and of poesie. 232:03,018[A ]| But for$4$ the rivals in$4$ the painter's art, 232:03,019[A ]| If well they represent, they can effect 232:03,020[A ]| No$2$ more, nor can we more expect. 232:03,021[A ]| But more than this thy happy pencils give: 232:03,022[A ]| Thy drafts are more than representative; 232:03,023[A ]| For$3$, if we will$1$ credit our own eyes, they live! 232:03,024[A ]| Ah! worthy friend, couldst thou maintain the state 232:03,025[A ]| Of what with so$5#1$ much ease thou dost create, 232:03,026[A ]| We might reflect on$4$ death with scorn. 232:03,027[A ]| But pictures, like$4$ the originals, decay: 232:03,028[A ]| Of colours those consist, and these of clay, 232:03,029[A ]| Alike composed of dust to$4$ dust alike return! 232:03,030[A ]| Yet it is our happiness to$9$ see 232:03,031[A ]| Oblivion, death and adverse destiny 232:03,032[A ]| Encountered, vanquished and disarmed by$4$ thee. 232:03,033[A ]| For$3$ if thy pencils fail, 232:03,034[A ]| Change thy artillery 232:03,035[A ]| And thou art secure of victory. 232:03,036[A ]| Employ thy quill, and thou shalt still prevail. 232:03,037[A ]| The grand destroyer, greedy time, reveres 232:03,038[A ]| Thy fancy's imagery, and spares 232:03,039[A ]| The meanest things that$6#1$ bear 232:03,040[A ]| The impression of thy pen. 232:03,041[A ]| Though coarse and cheap their natural metal were, 232:03,042[A ]| Stamped with thy verse, he knows they are sacred, then 232:03,043[A ]| He knows them by$4$ that$6#2$ character to$9$ be 232:03,044[A ]| Predestinate, and set apart for$4$ immortality. 232:03,045[A ]| If native lustre in$4$ thy themes appear, 232:03,046[A ]| Improved by$4$ thee it shines more clear: 232:03,047[A ]| Or if thy subject's void of native light, 232:03,048[A ]| Thy fancy need but dart a beam 232:03,049[A ]| To$9$ gild thy theme, 232:03,050[A ]| And make the rude mass beautiful and bright. 232:03,051[A ]| Thou variest oft thy strains, but still 232:03,052[A ]| Success attends each strain: 232:03,053[A ]| Thy verse is always lofty as the hill 232:03,054[A ]| Or pleasant as the plain. 232:03,055[A ]| How well thy muse the pastoral song improves 232:03,056[A ]| Whose nymphs and swains are in$4$ their loves 232:03,057[A ]| As innocent and yet as kind as doves. 232:03,058[A ]| But most she moves our wonder and delight 232:03,059[A ]| When she performs her loose Pindaric flight. 232:03,060[A ]| Oft to$4$ their outmost reach she will$1$ extend 232:03,061[A ]| Her towering wings to$9$ soar on$4$ high 232:03,062[A ]| And then by$4$ just degrees descend. 232:03,063[A ]| Oft in$4$ a swift, straight course she glides, 232:03,064[A ]| Obliquely oft the air divides 232:03,065[A ]| And of with wanton play hangs hovering in$4$ the sky. 232:03,066[A ]| Whilst sense of duty into my artless muse 232:03,067[A ]| The ambition would infuse 232:03,068[A ]| To$9$ mingle with those nymphs that$6#1$ homage pay 232:03,069[A ]| And wait on$4$ thine in$4$ her triumphant way; 232:03,070[A ]| Defect of merit checks her forward pride 232:03,071[A ]| And makes her dread to$9$ approach thy chariot side. 232:03,072[A ]| For$3$ it were at least a rude indecency 232:03,073[A ]| (If not profane) to$9$ appear 232:03,074[A ]| At this solemnity 232:03,075[A ]| Crowned with no$2$ laurel wreath when others are. 232:03,076[A ]| But this she will$1$ presume to$9$ do, 232:03,077[A ]| At distance to$9$ attend the show; 232:03,078[A ]| Officiously to$9$ gather up$5$ 232:03,079[A ]| The scattered bays, if any drop 232:03,080[A ]| From others' temples, and with those 232:03,081[A ]| A plain plebeian coronet compose. 232:03,082[A ]| This as your livery she would wear to$9$ hide 232:03,083[A ]| Her nakedness, not gratify her pride! 232:03,084[A ]| Such was the verdant dress 232:03,085[A ]| Which$6#1$ the offending pair did frame 232:03,086[A ]| Of plaited leaves, not to$9$ express 232:03,087[A ]| Their pride in$4$ the novel garb but to$9$ conceal their shame. 232:04,000@@@@@| 232:04,000[' ]| 232:04,001[A ]| From, a tall precipice on$4$ the sea side 232:04,002[A ]| A reverend hermit viewed the spreading tide: 232:04,003[A ]| The flood was curled with a becoming wave 232:04,004[A ]| But no$2$ presage of rising tempests gave. 232:04,005[A ]| A goodly ship was coasting by$4$ the place, 232:04,006[A ]| Like$4$ a proud courser foaming in$4$ her pace. 232:04,007[A ]| With flattering courtship, the lascivious gales 232:04,008[A ]| Her streamers curled and wantoned in$4$ her sails. 232:04,009[A ]| The waves divide to$9$ give the pageant way, 232:04,010[A ]| Then close, and with raised heads, the pomp survey. 232:04,011[A ]| Whilst the grave man this spectacle intends 232:04,012[A ]| (Pleased with the sight) a sudden storm descends. 232:04,013[A ]| The winds grow rude and rend the shaken boat: 232:04,014[A ]| On$4$ the swollen flood the tattered streamers float. 232:04,015[A ]| So$3$ blossoms with too violent a breeze 232:04,016[A ]| Are torn, and scattered round their shaken trees. 232:04,017[A ]| Then to$4$ his cell returned, the anchorite 232:04,018[A ]| Draws sage remarks from this disastrous sight 232:04,019[A ]| Of earthly grandeur, weighs the uncertain state 232:04,020[A ]| Which$6#1$ in$4$ its gaudiest bloom and proudest height 232:04,021[A ]| Stands most exposed to$4$ the shock of sudden fate. 232:05,000@@@@@| 232:05,000[' ]| 232:05,001[A ]| Nymph Faranett, supposed to$9$ be 232:05,002[A ]| The gentlest, most indulgent she 232:05,003[A ]| (For$4$ what offence I can not say) 232:05,004[A ]| A day and night and half a day 232:05,005[A ]| Banished her shepherd from her sight: 232:05,006[A ]| Sure his default could not be light, 232:05,007[A ]| Or this compassionate judge had never 232:05,008[A ]| Imposed a penance so$5#1$ severe. 232:05,009[A ]| And, lest she should anon revoke 232:05,010[A ]| What in$4$ her warmer rage she spoke, 232:05,011[A ]| She bound the sentence with an oath, 232:05,012[A ]| Protested by$4$ her faith and troth, 232:05,013[A ]| Nought should compound for$4$ his offence 232:05,014[A ]| But the full term of abstinence. 232:05,015[A ]| But when his penance glass were run, 232:05,016[A ]| His hours of castigation done, 232:05,017[A ]| Should he defer one minute's space 232:05,018[A ]| To$9$ appear and be restored to$4$ grace, 232:05,019[A ]| With sparkling, threatening eyes she swore 232:05,020[A ]| That$3$ failure would incense her more 232:05,021[A ]| Than all his trespasses before. 232:06,000@@@@@| 232:06,000[' ]| 232:06,001[A ]| The sun, far sunk in$4$ his descent, 232:06,002[A ]| Laid now his tyrant rays aside, 232:06,003[A ]| When Laura to$4$ the garden went 232:06,004[A ]| To$9$ triumph over nature's pride. 232:06,005[A ]| The rose buds blushed with deeper dye, 232:06,006[A ]| The envying lilies paler grew, 232:06,007[A ]| The violets drooped with fear to$9$ spy 232:06,008[A ]| On$4$ Laura's veins a richer blue. 232:06,009[A ]| She stooped and gathered as she went, 232:06,010[A ]| But while she slaughtered sweetly smiled, 232:06,011[A ]| As angels though for$4$ ruin sent, 232:06,012[A ]| Appear with looks serene and mild. 232:06,013[A ]| But now, grown weary with her toil, 232:06,014[A ]| She sits and flowery wreaths she frames; 232:06,015[A ]| Thus with proud trophies made of the spoil, 232:06,016[A ]| Her conquest over the flowers proclaims. 232:07,000@@@@@| 232:07,000[' ]| 232:07,001[A ]| Usurping passions held a long contest 232:07,002[A ]| For$4$ the supreme dominion of my breast; 232:07,003[A ]| But whilst in$4$ mutual broils the tyrants raged, 232:07,004[A ]| Whosoever by$4$ the battle gained, 232:07,005[A ]| I still the certain loss sustained; 232:07,006[A ]| For$3$ they never failed whenever they engaged 232:07,007[A ]| To$9$ waste the province where the war was waged. 232:07,008[A ]| Whilst such wild havoc in$4$ my breast was made, 232:07,009[A ]| Reason first came to$9$ tender me his aid; 232:07,010[A ]| And sure with that$6#2$ puissant prince allied, 232:07,011[A ]| Had I but played the man in$4$ the fight, 232:07,012[A ]| My passions had been put to$4$ flight. 232:07,013[A ]| But I not only to$9$ assist denied 232:07,014[A ]| But treacherously fell off to$4$ the enemy's side. 232:07,015[A ]| Then from the powers of love redress I craved 232:07,016[A ]| But was by$4$ that$6#2$ alliance worse enslaved; 232:07,017[A ]| For$3$ though Love's forces quickly did degrade 232:07,018[A ]| These proud usurpers of my breast, 232:07,019[A ]| Yet was I not hereby redressed, 232:07,020[A ]| For$3$ Love himself proved false when victor made 232:07,021[A ]| And seized the province which$6#1$ he came to$9$ aid. 232:07,022[A ]| But heavier now the bondage I sustain 232:07,023[A ]| Than during my tumultuous passions' reign. 232:07,024[A ]| It were now no$2$ small presumption to$9$ implore 232:07,025[A ]| The indulgent fates to$9$ set me free 232:07,026[A ]| As in$4$ my native liberty. 232:07,027[A ]| No$7$! so$3$ it please their kind powers to$9$ restore 232:07,028[A ]| My former tyrants I demand no$2$ more. 232:08,000@@@@@| 232:08,000[' ]| 232:08,001[A ]| In$4$ the narrowest walk of a close grove 232:08,002[A ]| Whom should I chance to$9$ meet but Love? 232:08,003[A ]| I seized the elf and said ~~ 232:08,003@a | At last 232:08,004@a | I have caught thee, and I will$1$ hold thee fast. 232:08,005@a | Now by$4$ thy mother's doves and sparrows, 232:08,006@a | I will$1$ rob thee of the bow and arrows; 232:08,007@a | I will$1$ chain thee up$5$ and clip thy wings, 232:08,008@a | Or strangle thee in$4$ thy own strings, 232:08,009@a | If thou refuse me to$9$ relate 232:08,010@a | The grounds of my Olinda's hate. 232:08,011[A ]| Then thus the boy replied: 232:08,011@b | Fond swain, 232:08,012@b | Vex not yourself and me in$4$ vain: 232:08,013@b | Your love as noble is and brave 232:08,014@b | As ever this bow and quiver gave; 232:08,015@b | But that$3$ Olinda slights your flame 232:08,016@b | Nor thou, nor I, nor she is to$9$ blame. 232:08,017@b | Weigh circumstances, and you will$1$ find 232:08,018@b | She is of necessity unkind: 232:08,019@b | She is mortal, therefore never can 232:08,020@b | Commiserate a suffering swain; 232:08,021@b | For$3$ such refined perfections shine 232:08,022@b | In$4$ her, that$3$ could she but incline 232:08,023@b | To$9$ pity men, she were divine. 232:09,000@@@@@| 232:09,000[' ]| 232:09,001[A ]| Her keen disdain pierced deep my breast: 232:09,002[A ]| The gaping orifice dismissed 232:09,003[A ]| The dearest drops my heart contained. 232:09,004[A ]| I ventured to$4$ her and complained 232:09,005[A ]| To$9$ ease my smart and still my fears; 232:09,006[A ]| She wept and bathed my wound with tears. 232:09,007[A ]| Blood will$1$ have blood, they say, and be 232:09,008[A ]| Repaid in$4$ kind. It is false in$4$ me. 232:09,009[A ]| For$3$, Sylvia, wound me yet more deep, 232:09,010[A ]| If after you vouchsafe to$9$ weep. 232:09,011[A ]| So$5#1$ much I prize your tears, I will$1$ own 232:09,012[A ]| You have not satisfied alone 232:09,013[A ]| But so$5#1$ overrecompensed my wrongs, that$3$ I, 232:09,014[A ]| Bleeding to$4$ death, shall Sylvia's debtor die. 232:10,000@@@@@| 232:10,000[' ]| 232:10,001[A ]| On$4$ a stream's bank I saw her stand, 232:10,002[A ]| A pliant angle in$4$ her hand. 232:10,003[A ]| I marked how she disguised the hook 232:10,004[A ]| And cast her bait into the brook. 232:10,005[A ]| The sport succeeded to$4$ her wish, 232:10,006[A ]| For$3$ straight she hung a ponderous fish; 232:10,007[A ]| But too too eager on$4$ her prey, 232:10,008[A ]| Refused to$9$ give the captive play 232:10,009[A ]| Till, tired, himself he would resign; 232:10,010[A ]| But trusting to$4$ her slender line, 232:10,011[A ]| The struggling animal, enraged 232:10,012[A ]| With the rude check, soon disengaged 232:10,013[A ]| His wounded jaws, but whilst he thus regains 232:10,014[A ]| His liberty, the bearded wire remains 232:10,015[A ]| And galls his tender gills with restless pains. 232:10,016[A ]| Is it not enough inhumane maid 232:10,017[A ]| That$3$ we are by$4$ thy wiles betrayed, 232:10,018[A ]| But you your treachery must employ 232:10,019[A ]| The flood's inhabitants to$9$ destroy? 232:10,020[A ]| This fish has my hard fortune shared, 232:10,021[A ]| When first by$4$ thy false charms ensnared; 232:10,022[A ]| For$3$ so$3$ I gorged the bait you threw; 232:10,023[A ]| Whilst (on$4$ your game too eager) you 232:10,024[A ]| Came violently to$9$ seize your prey, 232:10,025[A ]| Which$6#1$ with hard struggling broke away. 232:10,026[A ]| But to$4$ what purpose am I free, 232:10,027[A ]| Living in$4$ painful liberty? 232:10,028[A ]| In$4$ vain I boast that$3$ I survive the dart 232:10,029[A ]| Whose venomed pile lies festering in$4$ my heart, 232:10,030[A ]| And (though it kill not) galls with restless smart. 232:11,000@@@@@| 232:11,000[' ]| 232:11,001[A ]| How grossly do the learned and wise 232:11,002[A ]| Mistake in$4$ Love's state policies! 232:11,003[A ]| If I and Celia chance to$9$ jar, 232:11,004[A ]| They take our feuds for$4$ open war; 232:11,005[A ]| So$5#1$ little they perceive the power 232:11,006[A ]| Of quarrels to$9$ improve amour. 232:11,007[A ]| Do we not see how perfect are 232:11,008[A ]| The loves of every turtle pair, 232:11,009[A ]| Yet they like$4$ us disguise their bliss 232:11,010[A ]| Cooing and murmuring while they kiss! 232:11,011[A ]| Love's fire like$4$ lightning shines as fair 232:11,012[A ]| In$4$ storms as in$4$ serener air. 232:11,013[A ]| Let none, my Celia, judge the mode 232:11,014[A ]| Of our amour, and call it odd 232:11,015[A ]| But such as love to$4$ our degree 232:11,016[A ]| (If any more such lovers be!), 232:11,017[A ]| Whose wedded love persists the same, 232:11,018[A ]| As when we burned in$4$ virgin flame. 232:11,019[A ]| Sometimes like$4$ parting streams we stray 232:11,020[A ]| And seem to$9$ rove a sundry way, 232:11,021[A ]| But meet before long and so$5#1$ united move 232:11,022[A ]| Till we are lost in$4$ a full sea of love. 232:12,000@@@@@| 232:12,000[' ]| 232:12,001[A ]| Stay, Julia, let me watch that$6#2$ tear, 232:12,002[A ]| Lest the rich drop glide from thine eye; 232:12,003[A ]| The meteor sparkles in$4$ its sphere 232:12,004[A ]| But fallen to$4$ impure earth, it will$1$ die; 232:12,005[A ]| Yet where it is it can not stay, 232:12,006[A ]| For$3$ see the sunbeams come in$4$ swarms to$9$ prey 232:12,007[A ]| And sip the rich delicious juice away. 232:12,008[A ]| Into this vial let it fall ~~ 232:12,009[A ]| See, Julia, how it sparkles through: 232:12,010[A ]| Well may those eyes prevail on$4$ all, 232:12,011[A ]| Whose tears have killing glances too. 232:12,012[A ]| If solid as a gem it were, 232:12,013[A ]| No$2$ gem could vie with this transparent tear; 232:12,014[A ]| The eye that$6#1$ wept it only could compare. 232:12,015[A ]| It shall be so$5#2$, I will$1$ convert 232:12,016[A ]| This tear to$4$ a gem, it is feasible: 232:12,017[A ]| For$3$ laid near Julia's frozen heart, 232:12,018[A ]| It will$1$ to$4$ a diamond congeal. 232:12,019[A ]| And yet if I consider well, 232:12,020[A ]| These tears of Julia's can forebode no$2$ ill: 232:12,021[A ]| The frost is breaking when such drops distil. 232:13,000@@@@@| 232:13,000[' ]| 232:13,001[A ]| Dissolved in$4$ sleep, near a complaining stream, 232:13,002[A ]| My fancy strove with an important dream. 232:13,003[A ]| Methought I was with violence borne away 232:13,004[A ]| Through a dark vault whose cavern did convey 232:13,005[A ]| To$4$ death's sad courts; the brazen gates I passed, 232:13,006[A ]| Which$6#1$ on$4$ my entrance were again made fast. 232:13,007[A ]| The dismal cell with horror I surveyed, 232:13,008[A ]| For$3$ dead men's bones in$4$ piles were round me laid, 232:13,009[A ]| And skulls of largest size the pavement made. 232:13,010[A ]| The sun to$4$ this dark mansion darts no$2$ ray, 232:13,011[A ]| But glimmering lamps make an imperfect day. 232:13,012[A ]| By$4$ their faint light I searched the cave around, 232:13,013[A ]| And in$4$ each nook amazing objects found. 232:13,014[A ]| In$4$ a long row stood glasses stored with sand, 232:13,015[A ]| Which$6#1$ of some mortals years the tale contained: 232:13,016[A ]| His or her name the bloody letters spelled 232:13,017[A ]| The number of whose years the hour-glass held. 232:13,018[A ]| Grim fate stood by$5$ to$9$ watch the hindmost grain 232:13,019[A ]| And cut the slender thread of life in$4$ twain; 232:13,020[A ]| Then down the tablet dropped to$4$ a stream below, 232:13,021[A ]| Supposed from the Lethean lake to$9$ flow. 232:13,022[A ]| A while it floated till, borne underground, 232:13,023[A ]| It was in$4$ the abyss of deep oblivion drowned. 232:13,024[A ]| Whilst into fate's arcanas thus I pried, 232:13,025[A ]| My own name on$4$ a tablet I descried. 232:13,026[A ]| But oh the pants and agonies that$6#1$ rent 232:13,027[A ]| My panting breast to$9$ find my glass near spent! 232:13,028[A ]| The tragic scene begins. (Forgive me fate 232:13,029[A ]| That$3$ thy occult proceedings I relate.) 232:13,030[A ]| Straight was I summoned to$9$ receive my doom, 232:13,031[A ]| For$3$ death with horrid grace approached the room, 232:13,032[A ]| Arrayed majestic in$4$ a mourning robe, 232:13,033[A ]| A dart his sceptre and a skull his globe. 232:13,034[A ]| He sat, the attendants on$4$ his person stood, 232:13,035[A ]| All armed for$4$ slaughter and distained with blood. 232:13,036[A ]| Diseases next were placed, a numerous train, 232:13,037[A ]| Producing each a bed-roll of his slain. 232:13,038[A ]| No$2$ sooner were my scattered thoughts restored, 232:13,039[A ]| But I with mental prayers heaven's aid implored; 232:13,040[A ]| Then thus with hollow voice the tyrant spoke: 232:13,041@b | In$4$ vain, fond youth, heaven's succour you invoke. 232:13,042@b | Stand to$4$ the bar and hear the inditement read; 232:13,043@b | For$3$, before thou diest, thou art allowed to$9$ plead. 232:13,044@b | Thy charge is deep, but for$4$ thyself reply. 232:13,045@a | Oh I am guilty and deserve to$9$ die! 232:13,046@a | My years in$4$ vanity's pursuit I spent, 232:13,047@a | Too oft transgressed, too rarely did repent; 232:13,048@a | Some vices (heaven assisting) I suppressed, 232:13,049@a | And lasting war proclaimed with all the rest; 232:13,050@a | But oft in$4$ the combat I shrunk back and fled, 232:13,051@a | By$4$ passions oft surprised and captive led. 232:13,052@a | But are this court's proceedings so$5#1$ severe 232:13,053@a | That$3$ youth can challenge no$2$ indulgence here? 232:13,054@a | Had fate my life to$4$ manlier years promoved, 232:13,055@a | Perhaps my skill and courage had improved. 232:13,056@b | Mortal, thy doom already is decreed 232:13,057[A ]| (The judge replied) 232:13,057@b | and sentence must proceed! 232:13,058@b | This court's records with instances abound 232:13,059@b | Of younger brows than thine with laurel crowned. 232:13,060@b | Approach, ye ministers of fate, and bear 232:13,061@b | The offender hence to$4$ the region of despair; 232:13,062@b | In$4$ liquid flames of sulphur let him roll, 232:13,063@b | In$4$ sharpest agonies of a hell-wrecked soul: 232:13,064@b | Thus let him howl eternity away, 232:13,065@b | Refreshed with no$2$ short glimpse of heavenly day. 232:13,066[A ]| Confusion now my tortured bosom filled, 232:13,067[A ]| Cold sweat adown my lifeless joints distilled. 232:13,068[A ]| A guard of demons at the tyrant's call 232:13,069[A ]| With hideous yellings rushed into the hall, 232:13,070[A ]| Monstrous of shape, of size, prodigious tall. 232:13,071[A ]| In$4$ this distress behold a heavenly ray 232:13,072[A ]| Around me did his cheerful light display. 232:13,073[A ]| The lamps grew pale and shrunk into their case, 232:13,074[A ]| The frighted demons vanished from the place; 232:13,075[A ]| The haughty tyrant's self confused appeared. 232:13,076[A ]| Amongst the dead bones a rattling noise was heard, 232:13,077[A ]| As summoned to$4$ the universal doom 232:13,078[A ]| They justled with each other in$4$ their tomb. 232:13,079[A ]| Not daring yet to$9$ hope relief, I spied 232:13,080[A ]| My guardian angel smiling by$4$ my side; 232:13,081[A ]| A silent joy through all my vitals ran, 232:13,082[A ]| Whilst thus in$4$ charming language he began. 232:13,083@c | Rejoice my charge, for$3$ from heaven's court I come 232:13,084@c | With gracious orders to$9$ revoke thy doom. 232:13,085@c | Thy sun is set, the life-glass almost run, 232:13,086@c | Thy virtue's race imperfectly begun. 232:13,087@c | But heaven in$4$ pity to$4$ thy sickly pace 232:13,088@c | Has licensed me or to$9$ contract the space, 232:13,089@c | Or on$4$ my wing thy lingering spirit convey 232:13,090@c | To$4$ blissful mansions of eternal day. 232:13,091[A ]| To$4$ heaven and Him my humblest thanks I paid, 232:13,092[A ]| And begged to$9$ be to$4$ those glad seats conveyed; 232:13,093@c | But first admit the lot of all mankind 232:13,094@c | And leave, 232:13,094[A ]| said he, 232:13,094@c | that$6#2$ load of earth behind. 232:13,095[A ]| Prisoners absolved less gladly quit their chain 232:13,096[A ]| Than I this flesh that$6#1$ did my spirit detain. 232:13,097[A ]| But when my soul her naked self surveyed, 232:13,098[A ]| Leprous and foul by$4$ sin's contagion made, 232:13,099[A ]| She blushed and sought to$9$ cover her disgrace, 232:13,100[A ]| Retreating back into her fleshly case. 232:13,101[A ]| The guardian-spirit her fond attempt withstood, 232:13,102[A ]| And straight with hyssop dipped in$4$ sacred blood, 232:13,103[A ]| Baptised her; and behold, whilst I enquired 232:13,104[A ]| The intent of the ceremony, I grew inspired 232:13,105[A ]| With mental joys, and now descried no$2$ more 232:13,106[A ]| Those blemishes that$6#1$ stained my soul before: 232:13,107[A ]| Thought of new worlds my mind had so$5#1$ ingrossed 232:13,108[A ]| That$3$ all remembrance of the old it lost. 232:13,109[A ]| That$6#2$ body, too, which$6#1$ once I fondly thought 232:13,110[A ]| Could never be from my remembrance wrought, 232:13,111[A ]| Had now quite escaped my memory, till I spied 232:13,112[A ]| The pale and lifeless engine by$4$ my side. 232:13,113@a | Bless me, 232:13,113[A ]| said I, 232:13,113@a | what ghastly thing lies there: 232:13,114@a | Was this the mansion where so$5#1$ many a year 232:13,115@a | I lingered between successive hope and fear? 232:13,116@a | Was this the thing I took such care to$9$ improve, 232:13,117@a | Taught it to$9$ cringe and in$4$ just measures move? 232:13,118@a | The thing that$6#1$ lately did in$4$ business sweat, 232:13,119@a | That$6#1$ talked so$5#1$ much of being rich and great? 232:13,120@a | That$6#1$ sought with verse to$9$ make its love renowned, 232:13,121@a | And hoped before long to$9$ see its passion crowned? 232:13,122@a | Behold where the designing machine lies, 232:13,123@a | Prey to$4$ those insects it did once despise. 232:13,124@a | Suppose that$6#2$ body now lay covered over 232:13,125@a | In$4$ perfumes brought from Ormus' spicy shore, 232:13,126@a | What courteous female would vouchsafe the grace 232:13,127@a | To$9$ curl those locks or kiss that$6#2$ ghastly face? 232:13,128@a | Why is the corpse so$5#1$ long detained from ground, 232:13,129@a | It is more than time those hands and feet were bound. 232:13,130@a | Close the dull eyes, support the falling chin, 232:13,131@a | With grassy turfs suppress the swelling skin. 232:13,132@a | Go, let the funeral peal be rung aloud, 232:13,133@a | In$4$ winding sheets the offensive carcase shroud 232:13,134@a | And in$4$ some nook the useless lumber crowd. 232:13,135[A ]| Insulting thus I spake, and more had said 232:13,136[A ]| But was by$4$ my assistant angel stayed. 232:13,137@c | My charge, 232:13,137[A ]| said he, 232:13,137@c | these gloomy shades withdrawn, 232:13,138@c | Behold of everlasting say the dawn. 232:13,139@c | At the entrance to$4$ the Elysian land (a grace 232:13,140@c | Conferred on$4$ souls when first they arrive the place) 232:13,141@c | The blissful throng are met to$9$ welcome thee 232:13,142@c | To$4$ their fair world of immortality. 232:13,143[A ]| He said, and straight his threatening wand upheaved: 232:13,144[A ]| The neighbouring walls obeyed the stroke and cleaved. 232:13,145[A ]| Such was the blow given by$4$ the Hebrew guide, 232:13,146[A ]| When forcing his foot-passage through the tide. 232:13,147[A ]| The waters there congealed and stood in$4$ walls, 232:13,148[A ]| The building here like$4$ breaking water falls. 232:13,149[A ]| But now the parting stones brought heaven in$4$ view, 232:13,150[A ]| When (fatal chance!) my rapturous dream withdrew, 232:13,151[A ]| The grateful slumber from my temples fell, 232:13,152[A ]| Round me I viewed the grove, and thought it hell! 232:13,153[A ]| Aloud I called my guide: obligingly, 232:13,154[A ]| The echoing rocks kept up$5$ the expiring cry, 232:13,155[A ]| But the false vision fled without reply 233:00,000@@@@@| 233:00,000[' ]| 233:01,000[' ]| 233:01,001[A ]| As when the famed artificer of Greece 233:01,002[A ]| With wondrous art but ill success 233:01,003[A ]| Contrived his own and captive son's escape 233:01,004[A ]| By$4$ wings which$6#1$ he with inspired craft did shape, 233:01,005[A ]| He taught the youth how safely he might glide 233:01,006[A ]| And keep a mean between the sun and tide, 233:01,007[A ]| So$3$ you, learned friend, with equal art 233:01,008[A ]| To$4$ me the wings of poesy impart: 233:01,009[A ]| Before me through the spacious sphere 233:01,010[A ]| A steady course you steer; 233:01,011[A ]| There you securely wonders act 233:01,012[A ]| And the eyes of all attract, 233:01,013[A ]| Whilst I unfortunate 233:01,014[A ]| Like$4$ Icarus die but with less glorious fate! 233:01,015[A ]| He soaring fell, I flag below, 233:01,016[A ]| Where with damp wings, disabled to$9$ pursue, 233:01,017[A ]| I yield me lost, and plunging down 233:01,018[A ]| In$4$ deep oblivion drown. 233:02,000@@@@@| 233:02,000[' ]| 233:02,001[A ]| Dispatch and to$4$ the myrtle grove convey 233:02,002[A ]| Whatever with the natural palate suits: 233:02,003[A ]| The dairy's store with salads, roots and fruits. 233:02,004[A ]| I mean to$9$ play the epicure today! 233:02,005[A ]| Let nought be wanting to$9$ complete 233:02,006[A ]| Our bloodless treat; 233:02,007[A ]| But bloodless let it be, for$3$ I have decreed 233:02,008[A ]| The grape alone for$4$ this repast shall bleed. 233:02,009[A ]| Sit worthy friends ~~ but before we feed 233:02,010[A ]| Let Love be expelled the company. 233:02,011[A ]| Let no$2$ man's mirth here interrupted be 233:02,012[A ]| With thought of any scornful little she! 233:02,013[A ]| Fall to$4$ my friends. Trust me the cheer is good! 233:02,014[A ]| Ah! if our bliss we understood, 233:02,015[A ]| How should we bless the indulgent fates! 233:02,016[A ]| Indulgent fates, that$6#1$ with content have stored 233:02,017[A ]| Our rural board; 233:02,018[A ]| A rarity never found amongst the cates 233:02,019[A ]| Of most voluptuous potentates. 233:03,000@@@@@| 233:03,000[' ]| 233:03,001[A ]| By$4$ what wild frenzy was I led 233:03,002[A ]| That$3$ with a muse I needs must wed? 233:03,003[A ]| Whose dower consists of popular fame, 233:03,004[A ]| The short possession of a name! 233:03,005[A ]| Yet with what trouble and debate 233:03,006[A ]| The owner holds this poor estate, 233:03,007[A ]| Where after long expense and toil 233:03,008[A ]| He starves on$4$ the ungrateful soil. 233:03,009[A ]| The fields and groves which$6#1$ poets feign 233:03,010[A ]| The curious fancy entertain, 233:03,011[A ]| But yields no$2$ nourishing grain or fruit 233:03,012[A ]| The craving stomach to$9$ recruit. 233:03,013[A ]| With thirsty tongue the rhymer sings 233:03,014[A ]| Of nectar and Olympian springs. 233:03,015[A ]| And such I fear the fairy ground 233:03,016[A ]| Of their Elysium will$1$ be found; 233:03,017[A ]| A mere fools' paradise and fit 233:03,018[A ]| For$4$ such as will$1$ be men of wit. 233:03,019[A ]| Yet fain would I that$6#2$ rhymer know 233:03,020[A ]| That$6#1$ raves not of the shades below, 233:03,021[A ]| Whose verse describes not there each hill, 233:03,022[A ]| Each flowery vale and wandering rill, 233:03,023[A ]| With such precise particular care, 233:03,024[A ]| As he had been a native there; 233:03,025[A ]| When, maugre all his art and pains, 233:03,026[A ]| What are his gay Elysian plains 233:03,027[A ]| But an imaginary cheat, 233:03,028[A ]| Utopias formed in$4$ the wild conceit, 233:03,029[A ]| When with poetic calenture 233:03,030[A ]| It is seized, and death alone can cure. 233:04,000@@@@@| 233:04,000[' ]| 233:04,001[A ]| How well these frozen floods now represent 233:04,002[A ]| Those crystal waters of the firmament. 233:04,003[A ]| Though hurricanes should rage, they could not now 233:04,004[A ]| So$5#1$ much as curl the solid water's brow; 233:04,005[A ]| Proud fleets, whose stubborn cables scarce withstood 233:04,006[A ]| The impetuous shock of the unstable flood, 233:04,007[A ]| In$4$ watery ligaments are restrained 233:04,008[A ]| More strict than when in$4$ binding ooze detained. 233:04,009[A ]| But though their services at present fail, 233:04,010[A ]| Ourselves without the aid of tide or gale 233:04,011[A ]| On$4$ keels of polished steel securely sail. 233:04,012[A ]| From every creek to$4$ every point we rove 233:04,013[A ]| And in$4$ our lawless passage swifter move 233:04,014[A ]| Than fish beneath us or than fowl above. 233:05,000@@@@@| 233:05,000[' ]| 233:05,001[A ]| Dull mortals, with the same preposterous breath 233:05,002[A ]| We bless Love's darts and curse the shafts of death. 233:05,003[A ]| The author of our ills a god we style 233:05,004[A ]| But the redresser of those wrongs revile. 233:05,005[A ]| Yet, gentle death, though rudely treated, still 233:05,006[A ]| Persists in$4$ generous charity to$9$ kill 233:05,007[A ]| And cure the ungrateful even against their will$0$! 233:05,008[A ]| Ah, should he once in$4$ just resentment give 233:05,009[A ]| Our wishes and permit us ever live, 233:05,010[A ]| What should age do when soul and body jar 233:05,011[A ]| And loathe each other like$4$ an ill-wed pair? 233:05,012[A ]| Can envious fiends a penalty invent 233:05,013[A ]| That$6#1$ shall than loathed embraces more torment? 233:05,014[A ]| But friendly death absolves us from this curse 233:05,015[A ]| And, when the parties clash, makes a divorce. 233:06,000@@@@@| 233:06,000[' ]| 233:06,001[A ]| From Aurora's spicy bed 233:06,002[A ]| Phoebus rears his sacred head, 233:06,003[A ]| His coursers advancing, 233:06,004[A ]| Curvetting and prancing. 233:06,005[A ]| Phoebus strives in$4$ vain to$9$ tame them 233:06,006[A ]| With ambrosia fed too high. 233:06,007[A ]| Phoebus ought not now to$9$ blame them, 233:06,008[A ]| Wild and eager to$9$ survey 233:06,009[A ]| The fairest pageant of the sea. 233:06,010[A ]| Tritons and Nereids come pay your devotion 233:06,011[A ]| To$4$ the new rising star of the ocean. 233:06,012[A ]| Look down ye orbs and see 233:06,013[A ]| A new divinity 233:06,014[A ]| Whose lustre does outshine 233:06,015[A ]| Your fainter beams and half eclipses mine. 233:06,016[A ]| Give Phoebus leave to$9$ prophesy, 233:06,017[A ]| Phoebus that$6#1$ all events can see. 233:06,018[A ]| Ten thousand, thousand harms 233:06,019[A ]| From such prevailing charms 233:06,020[A ]| To$4$ gods and men must instantly ensue. 233:06,021[A ]| And if the deities above 233:06,022[A ]| Are victims of the powers of love, 233:06,023[A ]| What must wretched mortals do? 233:06,024[A ]| Fear not Phoebus, fear not me, 233:06,025[A ]| A harmless deity. 233:06,026[A ]| These are my guards ye view. 233:06,027[A ]| What can these blind archers do? 233:06,028[A ]| Blind they are, but strike the heart. 233:06,029[A ]| What Phoebus says is always true: 233:06,030[A ]| They wound indeed but it is a pleasing smart. 233:06,031[A ]| Earth and skies address their duty 233:06,032[A ]| To$4$ the sovereign queen of beauty, 233:06,033[A ]| All resigning 233:06,034[A ]| None repining 233:06,035[A ]| At her undisputed sway. 233:06,036[A ]| To$4$ Phoebus and Venus our homage we will$1$ pay: 233:06,037[A ]| Her charms bless the night as his beams blest the day. 233:06,038[A ]| See the spring in$4$ all her glory 233:06,039[A ]| Welcomes Venus to$4$ the shore. 233:06,040[A ]| Smiling hours are now before you, 233:06,041[A ]| Hours that$6#1$ may return no$2$ more. 233:06,042[A ]| Our youth and form declare 233:06,043[A ]| For$4$ what we were designed. 233:06,044[A ]| It was nature made us fair 233:06,045[A ]| And you must make us kind. 233:06,046[A ]| He that$6#1$ fails of addressing, 233:06,047[A ]| It is but just he should fail of possessing. 233:06,048[A ]| Jolly shepherds come away 233:06,049[A ]| To$9$ celebrate this genial day, 233:06,050[A ]| And take the friendly hours you vow to$9$ pay. 233:06,051[A ]| Now make trial 233:06,052[A ]| And take no$2$ denial, 233:06,053[A ]| Now carry your game ~~ or forever give over. 233:06,054[A ]| Let us love and happy live, 233:06,055[A ]| Possess those smiling hours, 233:06,056[A ]| The more auspicious powers 233:06,057[A ]| And gentle planets give. 233:06,058[A ]| Prepare those soft returns to$9$ meet 233:06,059[A ]| That$6#1$ makes love's torments sweet. 233:06,060[A ]| Tell, tell me, prithee Dolly, 233:06,061[A ]| And leave thy melancholy, 233:06,062[A ]| Why on$4$ the plains the nymphs and swains 233:06,063[A ]| This morning are so$5#1$ jolly? 233:06,064[A ]| By$4$ zephyr's gentle blowing 233:06,065[A ]| And Venus graces flowing. 233:06,066[A ]| The sun has been to$9$ court our queen 233:06,067[A ]| And tired the spring with wooing. 233:06,068[A ]| The sun does gild our bowers, 233:06,069[A ]| The spring does yield us flowers: 233:06,070[A ]| She sends the vine, 233:06,071[A ]| He makes the wine, 233:06,072[A ]| To$9$ charm our happy hours. 233:06,073[A ]| She gives our flocks their feeding, 233:06,074[A ]| He makes them fit for$4$ breeding. 233:06,075[A ]| She decks the plain 233:06,076[A ]| He fills the grain, 233:06,077[A ]| And makes it worth the weeding. 233:06,078[A ]| But the jolly nymph Thetis that$6#1$ long his love sought 233:06,079[A ]| Has flustered him now with a large morning's draught. 233:06,080[A ]| Let us go and divert him whilst he is mellow: 233:06,081[A ]| You know in$4$ his cups he is a hot-headed fellow. 233:07,000@@@@@| 233:07,000[' ]| 233:07,001[A ]| All that$6#1$ we know the angels do above, 233:07,002[A ]| I have read, is that$3$ they sing and that$3$ they love. 233:07,003[A ]| The vocal part we have tonight performed, 233:07,004[A ]| And if by$4$ love our hearts not yet are warmed, 233:07,005[A ]| Great providence has still more bounteous been 233:07,006[A ]| To$9$ save us from those grand deceivers, men. 233:07,007[A ]| Here blessed with innocence and peace of mind, 233:07,008[A ]| Not only bred to$4$ virtue but inclined, 233:07,009[A ]| We flourish and defy all human kind. 233:07,010[A ]| Art's curious garden thus we learn to$9$ know, 233:07,011[A ]| And here secure from nipping blasts we grow. 233:07,012[A ]| Let the vain fop range over yon vile, lewd town, 233:07,013[A ]| Learn play-house wit and vow it is all his own; 233:07,014[A ]| Let him cock, huff, strut, ogle, lie and swear, 233:07,015[A ]| How he is admired by$4$ such and such a player: 233:07,016[A ]| All is one to$4$ us, his charms have here no$2$ power; 233:07,017[A ]| Our hearts have just the temper as before. 233:07,018[A ]| Besides, to$9$ show we live with strictest rules, 233:07,019[A ]| Our nunnery door is charmed to$9$ shut out fools. 233:07,020[A ]| No$2$ love toy here can pass to$4$ private view, 233:07,021[A ]| Nor china orange crammed with billet-doux. 233:07,022[A ]| Rome may allow strange tricks to$9$ please her sons, 233:07,023[A ]| But we are protestants and English nuns. 233:07,024[A ]| Like$4$ nimble fawns and birds that$6#1$ bless the spring, 233:07,025[A ]| Unscared by$4$ turning times we dance and sing. 233:07,026[A ]| We hope to$9$ please, but if some critic here 233:07,027[A ]| Fond of his wit designs to$9$ be severe, 233:07,028[A ]| Let not his patience be worn out too soon 233:07,029[A ]| And in$4$ few years we shall be all in$4$ tune. 233:08,000@@@@@| 233:08,000[' ]| 233:08,000[A ]| 233:08,000[A ]| 233:08,001[A ]| Malignant humour, poison to$4$ my blood! 233:08,002[A ]| Bane of those active spirits that$6#1$ glide 233:08,003[A ]| And sport within the circling tide, 233:08,004[A ]| As fish expire in$4$ an infected flood. 233:08,005[A ]| When all the horizon of my soul is clear, 233:08,006[A ]| And I suspect no$2$ change of weather near, 233:08,007[A ]| Straight like$4$ a sudden storm I find 233:08,008[A ]| Thy black fumes gathering in$4$ my mind, 233:08,009[A ]| Transforming all Egyptian darkness there, 233:08,010[A ]| Darkness where nought occurs to$4$ sight 233:08,011[A ]| But flashes more amazing than the night 233:08,012[A ]| And fiery spectres gliding through the troubled air. 233:08,013[A ]| Sleep that$6#1$ in$4$ other maladies brings ease, 233:08,014[A ]| Feeds and enrages this disease; 233:08,015[A ]| For$3$ when my weary lids I close 233:08,016[A ]| And slumber, it is without repose. 233:08,017[A ]| This fury still into my dreams will$1$ creep 233:08,018[A ]| To$9$ hag my timorous fancy while I sleep. 233:08,019[A ]| Through charnel houses then I am led, 233:08,020[A ]| Those gloomy mansions of the dead, 233:08,021[A ]| Where pensive ghosts by$4$ their loved relics stay 233:08,022[A ]| And curse the approaching day. 233:08,023[A ]| By$4$ merciless foes pursued and taken, 233:08,024[A ]| Oft ship-wrecked on$4$ the main, 233:08,025[A ]| Beneath the floods I seem to$9$ dive; 233:08,026[A ]| Oft in$4$ wild Sarra's desert forced to$9$ engage 233:08,027[A ]| Some savage monster's rage; 233:08,028[A ]| Oft, Typhon-like, beneath a mountain's weight I strive. 233:08,029[A ]| Might I the book of fate peruse 233:08,030[A ]| To$9$ read the lot for$4$ me designed 233:08,031[A ]| I should, perhaps, auspicious find 233:08,032[A ]| Those planets I accuse. 233:08,033[A ]| But whilst for$4$ information I 233:08,034[A ]| Consul the false astrology 233:08,035[A ]| Of melancholy fear, 233:08,036[A ]| Dark and overcast my future days appear. 233:08,037[A ]| All possible misfortunes while I dread, 233:08,038[A ]| I draw all possible misfortunes on$4$ my head. 233:08,039[A ]| Whilst this solicitous fear of future ill 233:08,040[A ]| My credulous thought employs, 233:08,041[A ]| Though false its augury yet it destroys 233:08,042[A ]| My present rest, and still 233:08,043[A ]| Diverts me from pursuit of certain joys 233:08,044[A ]| Who$6#1$ seeks for$4$ happiness with nicest care 233:08,045[A ]| Must watch its seasons and frequent its haunt. 233:08,046[A ]| Delight is a rich tender plant 233:08,047[A ]| That$6#1$ springs not in$4$ all soils and all the year. 233:08,048[A ]| It is like$4$ the manna which$6#1$ in$4$ plenty lay, 233:08,049[A ]| If early sought around 233:08,050[A ]| Each Hebrew's tent but, if till heat of day 233:08,051[A ]| Their search they did delay, 233:08,052[A ]| The ambrosial food was nowhere to$9$ be found. 233:09,000@@@@@| 233:09,000[A ]| 233:09,001[A ]| Certes, of all well-meaning fools, thy fate 233:09,003[A ]| Hadst thou, Domitian-like, in$4$ catching flies 233:09,004[A ]| Employed thy privacy, thou hadst passed for$4$ wise. 233:09,005[A ]| For$3$ what should hinder thee, but thou mayst catch 233:09,006[A ]| As fast as he, and be the emperor's match. 233:09,007[A ]| But whilst thy solitary hours are spent 233:09,008[A ]| In$4$ scribbling tedious systems to$9$ prevent 233:09,009[A ]| The world's mistakes, its follies to$9$ reform, 233:09,010[A ]| Thou mayst as well pretend to$9$ lay a storm. 233:09,011[A ]| Go, cut the Caspian lake a road to$4$ the ocean, 233:09,012[A ]| Contrive an engine with perpetual motion, 233:09,013[A ]| Make Machiavellians of the Red-Bull rout, 233:09,014[A ]| Jilts constant, brokers honest, bawds devout. 233:09,015[A ]| If these adventures seem unfeasible, 233:09,016[A ]| At least enough to$9$ pose Don*Sidrophel, 233:09,017[A ]| Then think how frantically thou didst devise 233:09,018[A ]| To$9$ make this hair-brained world grow staid and wise. 233:09,019[A ]| In$4$ youth and prime when likest to$9$ improve 233:09,020[A ]| No$2$ precepts this besotted world could move; 233:09,021[A ]| And wilt thou at these years begin to$9$ school 233:09,022[A ]| (Dull moralist) the crazy doting fool? 233:09,023[A ]| Go, dreaming stoic, once again retire; 233:09,024[A ]| And, since thou art ambitious to$9$ acquire 233:09,025[A ]| Repute for$4$ judgement, set thy works on$4$ fire. 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| <1677 book. Would you like more of the Frascatorius translation, or > 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:10,000@@@@@| 233:10,000[' ]| 233:10,001[A ]| Thy picture drawn, foul beldame! Thine? 233:10,002[A ]| What frenzy haunts thy mind, 233:10,003[A ]| And drives thee on$4$ this vile design 233:10,004[A ]| To$9$ affront all womankind? 233:10,005[A ]| For$3$, whilst thy swarthy, cankered face 233:10,006[A ]| Posterity shall view, 233:10,007[A ]| They will$1$ loathe the fairest of the race 233:10,008[A ]| For$4$ sharing sex with you. 233:10,009[A ]| To$4$ some forlorn church-yard repair 233:10,010[A ]| And haggard thou shalt see 233:10,011[A ]| The sternest goblin will$1$ not dare 233:10,012[A ]| To$9$ stand the sight of thee. 233:10,013[A ]| Those ghosts that$6#1$ strike with panic-fear 233:10,014[A ]| The breasts of stoutest braves, 233:10,015[A ]| At thy approach will$1$ disappear 233:10,016[A ]| And burrow in$4$ their graves. 233:10,017[A ]| Fix thy effigies on$4$ the shield 233:10,018[A ]| Of some bold knight in$4$ arms, 233:10,019[A ]| It will$1$ aid him more to$9$ win the field 233:10,020[A ]| Than all his lady's charms. 233:10,021[A ]| Don*Perseus with his Gorgon's face 233:10,022[A ]| That$6#2$ combatant would flee; 233:10,023[A ]| For$3$ hag Medusa (no$2$ disgrace) 233:10,024[A ]| A beauty were to$4$ thee. 233:11,000@@@@@| 233:11,000[' ]| 233:11,001[A ]| Reclaim, rash friend, your wild resolves to$9$ engage 233:11,002[A ]| A captious and ill-natured age. 233:11,003[A ]| It is not enough the verse you write be good, 233:11,004[A ]| To$9$ take it must be understood; 233:11,005[A ]| And to$9$ instruct the world, where you excel, 233:11,006[A ]| Is harder much than writing well. 233:11,007[A ]| They are different tasks, to$9$ write well and to$9$ please, 233:11,008[A ]| The last ~~ alas ~~ a work of ease. 233:11,009[A ]| Whilst Midas umpire sits, let none admire 233:11,010[A ]| Pan's pipe preferred to$4$ Phoebus lyre, 233:11,011[A ]| The gaudiest painting takes the vulgar sight, 233:11,012[A ]| Whilst artful pieces less delight. 233:11,013[A ]| In$4$ vain is nature represented well: 233:11,014[A ]| If it be not gay it will$1$ never sell. 233:11,015[A ]| Hark in$4$ your ear (It is a strange mystery, 233:11,016[A ]| But a grand truth), if popular you would be, 233:11,017[A ]| Faith spare your pains and write extempore. 233:12,000@@@@@| 233:12,000[' ]| 233:12,001[A ]| An ignorant am I 233:12,002[A ]| And glory in$4$ the name. 233:12,003[A ]| I wot not what of yore 233:12,004[A ]| Rash furiosos did, 233:12,005[A ]| Nor what the dreaming sages said. 233:12,006[A ]| I can not run a list of old Rome's triumphs over. 233:12,007[A ]| It was knowledge first to$4$ ruin led us on$5$; 233:12,008[A ]| For$3$ with this mortal itch possessed 233:12,009[A ]| The happy pair transgressed: 233:12,010[A ]| Needs must they know, they knew and were undone! 233:12,011[A ]| And to$4$ this hour our misery's sole relief 233:12,012[A ]| Consists in$4$ ignorance of our grief! 233:12,013[A ]| Then plodding mortal cease 233:12,014[A ]| To$9$ boast your dear bought faculties; 233:12,015[A ]| For$3$ since with knowledge sorrow must increase, 233:12,016[A ]| Let such as on$4$ those terms can science prize 233:12,017[A ]| Improve in$4$ science; but for$4$ me, 233:12,018[A ]| So$3$ I may ignorant and happy be 233:12,019[A ]| I will$1$ never repine or look with envious eyes 233:12,020[A ]| On$4$ the unhappy learned and miserable wise. 233:12,000[A ]| 233:13,000@@@@@| 233:13,000[' ]| 233:13,001[A ]| Appear my Kib-welkin, dear spirit appear 233:13,002[A ]| In$4$ the shape 233:13,003[A ]| Of an ape, 233:13,004[A ]| A fire-spitting dragon, or clump-footed bear. 233:13,005[A ]| Madge has whooped me twice from her ivy-bound oak, 233:13,006[A ]| And twice have I heard the dull night-raven croak. 233:13,007[A ]| Let me stride thee my welkin and post it away 233:13,008[A ]| Before the moon 233:13,009[A ]| Reach her noon 233:13,010[A ]| For$3$ the night is the wayward sister's day. 233:13,011[A ]| Through the air let us take our fantastical round, 233:13,012[A ]| And sip of the dew 233:13,013[A ]| While it is new, 233:13,014[A ]| Before the honey-drops fall to$4$ the ground. 233:13,015[A ]| But, when we are mounted and in$4$ our career, 233:13,016[A ]| Make neither halt nor stay, 233:13,017[A ]| And to$4$ none give the way, 233:13,018[A ]| Though Hecate herself should be rounding the air. 233:13,019[A ]| For$4$ once I will$1$ encounter 233:13,020[A ]| And try to$9$ dismount her, 233:13,021[A ]| Pitch her heels over head 233:13,022[A ]| To$4$ some quagmire below and reign queen in$4$ her stead. 233:13,023[A ]| Bustle, bustle my Kib, and be sure before we part 233:13,024[A ]| Thou shall suck at the dug that$6#1$ is next to$4$ my heart. 233:14,000@@@@@| 233:14,000[' ]| 233:14,001[A ]| Precisely I remember all, it was night, 233:14,002[A ]| Calm sky, and the full moon shone bright, 233:14,003[A ]| When first you swore that$3$ bleating flocks should feed 233:14,004[A ]| With wolves, nor other keepers need; 233:14,005[A ]| That$3$ boisterous winds, hushed in$4$ eternal sleep, 233:14,006[A ]| Should cease to$9$ revel on$4$ the deep; 233:14,007[A ]| You vowed that$3$ these, and prodigies more strange 233:14,008[A ]| Should fall before your fixed heart could change. 233:14,009[A ]| Yet (womanlike) to$4$ your new favourite now 233:14,010[A ]| Unswear as oft as you did vow! 233:14,011[A ]| Ah, if I could (and sure if half a man, 233:14,012[A ]| Or somewhat less than half, I can) 233:14,013[A ]| Could I in$4$ just resentment quit your chain 233:14,014[A ]| And with more caution choose again, 233:14,015[A ]| Nymph, you would repent my wrongs, when flying fame 233:14,016[A ]| Should publish to$4$ your grief and shame 233:14,017[A ]| How your wronged swain had found a nymph more true, 233:14,018[A ]| And equal in$4$ her charms to$4$ you. 233:14,019[A ]| But treacherous rival, you that$6#1$ reap my toils 233:14,020[A ]| And pride yourself in$4$ my stolen spoils, 233:14,021[A ]| Should fates and stars adopt you for$4$ their own, 233:14,022[A ]| And shower their richest blessings down, 233:14,023[A ]| Nought should secure you from the sure presage 233:14,024[A ]| Of an offended poet's rage. 233:14,025[A ]| The time shall come (and to$9$ enhance your fear, 233:14,026[A ]| Know, wretch, that$6#2$ fatal time is near) 233:14,027[A ]| When you shall perish by$4$ the inconstancy 233:14,028[A ]| Of her that$6#1$ first learned breach of faith from thee, 233:14,029[A ]| Whilst from the safe shore your sad wreck I see. 233:15,000@@@@@| 233:15,000[' ]| 233:15,001[' ]| To$4$ his four-footed subjects through the nation 233:15,002[' ]| The king of brutes thus issues proclamation: 233:15,003[B ]| Being well informed we have incurred disgrace 233:15,004[B ]| By$4$ harbouring in$4$ our realm a scandalous race, 233:15,005[B ]| A sect that$6#1$ have no$2$ tails, these presents are 233:15,006[B ]| To$9$ enjoin such miscreants, all and singular, 233:15,007[B ]| Straight to$9$ depart our land, or on$4$ demur, 233:15,008[B ]| Our law's grand-treason penalties incur. 233:15,009[' ]| Sly Reynard straight sifts out this state design, 233:15,010[' ]| Turns goods and chattels all to$4$ ready coin. 233:15,011[' ]| The unprojecting neighbourhood admire, 233:15,012[' ]| And flock the occasion of his march to$9$ enquire. 233:15,013[' ]| Where amongst the rest the ceremonious ape 233:15,014[' ]| Accosts him with grimace and formal scrape. 233:15,015[C ]| Bon*jour monsieur, you pass for$4$ a prime wit 233:15,016[C ]| But in$4$ this project give small proof of it. 233:15,017[C ]| We of the cur-tailed tribe by$4$ express command 233:15,018[C ]| Of our great cham prepare to$9$ quit the land; 233:15,019[C ]| But why sir should you budge, whose posterns bear 233:15,020[C ]| A swashing train well furred to$9$ guard your rear? 233:15,021[C ]| Had nature lent me but an inch of dock, 233:15,022[C ]| A tuft to$9$ shade or scut to$9$ grace my nock, 233:15,023[C ]| I should presume I had no$2$ obligation 233:15,024[C ]| From the late act to$9$ take this peregrination. 233:15,025[' ]| To$4$ this the fox ~~ 233:15,025[D ]| You have spoke an oracle: 233:15,026[D ]| Doubtless your gravity reads Machiavill. 233:15,027[D ]| I must confess I have no$2$ pretence to$9$ rail, 233:15,028[D ]| Or curse my stars for$4$ stinting me in$4$ tail; 233:15,029[D ]| But, grant my train might with a comet's measure, 233:15,030[D ]| Suppose withal that$3$ it were his highness' pleasure 233:15,031[D ]| To$9$ say I have none, which$6#1$, if he once assert, 233:15,032[D ]| Never doubt but he has sycophants will$1$ swear it. 233:15,033[D ]| Thus charged, should I attempt my own defence 233:15,034[D ]| (To$9$ give his lawless tyranny pretence), 233:15,035[D ]| It is odds but I am docked upon$4$ the spot 233:15,036[D ]| And then for$4$ want of tail poor Reynard goes to$4$ pot. 233:16,000@@@@@| 233:16,000[' ]| 233:16,001[A ]| Come, Coridon, sit by$4$ me gentle swain; 233:16,002[A ]| Thy cheek is pale: Speak shepherd, where is thy pain? 233:16,003[A ]| Say, Claius, priest of our great Pan (for$3$ you 233:16,004[A ]| Of human science the utmost limits know), 233:16,005[A ]| Is physic's power to$4$ the body's use confined? 233:16,006[A ]| Have you no$2$ medicine for$4$ a troubled mind? 233:16,007[A ]| Yes, for$3$ as balsams raging pains appease, 233:16,008[A ]| Sage counsels to$4$ distempered souls give ease, 233:16,009[A ]| Even love is no$2$ incurable disease. 233:16,010[A ]| Ha, swain, what means that$6#2$ sudden blush and start? 233:16,011[A ]| Have I guessed right and touched the tender part? 233:16,012[A ]| I would conceal it, but have not learned to$9$ feign ~~ 233:16,013[A ]| You have guessed, and while you named it, waked my pain. 233:16,014[A ]| To$9$ effect the cure we will$1$ take the safest course, 233:16,015[A ]| And trace the malady to$4$ its first source: 233:16,016[A ]| Say then what female gins and baits were laid, 233:16,017[A ]| Or was your fond soul by$4$ itself betrayed? 233:16,018[A ]| When from severer business I withdrew, 233:16,019[A ]| Between love and me a fatal friendship grew: 233:16,020[A ]| Such was my ignorance and his craft, my breast 233:16,021[A ]| Admitted the impostor for$4$ its guest; 233:16,022[A ]| With my heart's blood our covenant we sealed, 233:16,023[A ]| A solemn contract never to$9$ be repealed. 233:16,024[A ]| Then all delights young sorcerers enjoy 233:16,025[A ]| A while did my deluded soul employ, 233:16,026[A ]| Love fed my waking thoughts with glorious themes, 233:16,027[A ]| And blessed my slumbers with transporting dreams. 233:16,028[A ]| When at an awful distance I surveyed 233:16,029[A ]| My nymph, transported to$4$ myself I said: 233:16,030[A ]| Ah, charming fair, oh excellence divine, 233:16,031[A ]| Whilst love would whispering answer ~~ swain, she is thine. 233:16,032[A ]| Thus, whilst from far our high-placed hopes appear, 233:16,033[A ]| The gulfs between concealed, we deem them near. 233:16,034[A ]| Yet boldly through all obstacles I pressed. 233:16,035[A ]| Why therefore shepherd are you not possessed? 233:16,036[A ]| Force not the unwilling secret from my breast; 233:16,037[A ]| There let it lurk in$4$ sympathising night, 233:16,038[A ]| And never roam from its dark cell to$9$ fright. 233:16,039[A ]| Let it suffice that$3$ on$4$ a barren soil 233:16,040[A ]| I have lost of many years the expense and toil. 233:16,041[A ]| Does the false nymph ~~ 233:16,042[A ]| The wages you so$5#1$ dearly earned refuse? 233:16,043[A ]| Myself I can not, will$1$ not her accuse. 233:16,044[A ]| But my relief must from your counsels rise: 233:16,045[A ]| Examine not, good Claius, but advise. 233:16,046[A ]| Bring your best art (for$3$ it will$1$ your best require) 233:16,047[A ]| To$9$ unspell my soul from love's tormenting fire. 233:16,048[A ]| Call reason to$4$ your aid, you will$1$ put to$4$ flight 233:16,049[A ]| The foe not to$9$ be quelled by$4$ other might. 233:16,050[A ]| Of happiest love's delights sum up$5$ the account, 233:16,051[A ]| And learn to$4$ what the total will$1$ amount; 233:16,052[A ]| Then in$4$ the balance love's vexations weigh, 233:16,053[A ]| How certain these, and how uncertain they. 233:16,054[A ]| Sordid his joys and of delight so$5#1$ nice 233:16,055[A ]| That$3$ female coyness only gives them price. 233:16,056[A ]| Short-lived the warmest amorist's desires, 233:16,057[A ]| At kindling Hymen's oft love's torch expires. 233:16,058[A ]| There are that$6#1$ from large dowers derive their flame 233:16,059[A ]| And these in$4$ full career pursue their game: 233:16,060[A ]| They wreck their wits the golden prize to$9$ gain, 233:16,061[A ]| But dream not how that$6#2$ gold is wrought into a chain. 233:16,062[A ]| When late loves false suggestions I obeyed, 233:16,063[A ]| It was in$4$ pursuit of happiness I strayed. 233:16,064[A ]| My credulous youth had seen no$2$ brighter flame 233:16,065[A ]| And straight concluded that$3$ from heaven it came. 233:16,066[A ]| In$4$ error's night, love's fire shone bright and gay, 233:16,067[A ]| But at the approach of reason's conquering ray 233:16,068[A ]| The meteor's lost in$4$ the full blaze of day. 233:16,069[A ]| Mistake not swain, I would not quench your flame. 233:16,070[A ]| But slip your passion at a nobler game. 233:16,071[A ]| Waive sensual joys, and with a flame refined 233:16,072[A ]| Court those diviner pleasures of the mind. 233:16,073[A ]| To$4$ sacred virtue next make your address, 233:16,074[A ]| Confess you have no$2$ regard of happiness, 233:16,075[A ]| Or live henceforth of virtue's service proud, 233:16,076[A ]| The brightest beauty and the best endowed. 233:16,077[A ]| She will$1$ guard your youth from passion's baneful rage, 233:16,078[A ]| With peaceful thoughts divert the pains of age. 233:16,079[A ]| But then in$4$ largest streams her blessings flow, 233:16,080[A ]| When love grown bankrupt can no$2$ more bestow. 233:16,081[A ]| When rigorous death shall check your circling blood 233:16,082[A ]| And life die stifled in$4$ the frozen flood, 233:16,083[A ]| Your pensive nymph at large may tell her grief, 233:16,084[A ]| But to$4$ your ravished soul give no$2$ relief. 233:16,085[A ]| It will$1$ lurk a pensive ghost in$4$ caves all day, 233:16,086[A ]| And to$4$ its relics mid-night visits pay. 233:16,087[A ]| But pious souls, by$4$ death are gainers made, 233:16,088[A ]| By$4$ virtue to$4$ the Elysian fields conveyed. 233:16,089[A ]| There mirth and peace and softest transports reign: 233:16,090[A ]| Delights refined from all allays of pain; 233:16,091[A ]| The grateful soil untilled her harvest yields, 233:16,092[A ]| Unclouded skies and ever-verdant fields. 233:16,093[A ]| There emulation no$2$ dissension gives, 233:16,094[A ]| For$3$ happy each in$4$ other's blisses lives. 233:16,095[A ]| No$2$ cares of the future their free thoughts employ, 233:16,096[A ]| The business of the place is to$9$ enjoy, 233:16,097[A ]| That$6#2$ swain is most industrious held that$6#1$ best 233:16,098[A ]| Improves his bliss, exceeds in$4$ joys the rest. 233:16,099[A ]| If love can bless beyond these heights, return 233:16,100[A ]| To$9$ drag his chain and in$4$ his fever burn. 233:16,101[A ]| Take leave of blissful immortality, 233:16,102[A ]| Chide my impertinent zeal, to$9$ set you free, 233:16,103[A ]| And court the frowns of some imperious she. 233:16,104[A ]| Destroy not thus your generous courtesies 233:16,105[A ]| By$4$ an unfriendly and unjust surmise. 233:16,106[A ]| Heaven sends me freedom, and to$9$ sell the pledge 233:16,107[A ]| Must brand me with the foulest sacrilege. 233:16,108[A ]| Against love and beauty I will$1$ maintain the fort 233:16,109[A ]| And fix a guard of virtues in$4$ my heart. 233:16,110[A ]| If beauty's force too rashly you despise, 233:16,111[A ]| It is odds but you are ruined by$4$ surprise. 233:16,112[A ]| Would you live free from female tyranny? 233:16,113[A ]| Never parley with the tempting sex, but fly. 233:16,114[A ]| Their very tears are fuel to$4$ desire, 233:16,115[A ]| And with their sighs they will$1$ fan the expiring fire. 233:16,116[A ]| Their mirth and grief, their kindness and disdain, 233:16,117[A ]| Are fatal all, and work poor shepherds pain! 233:16,118[A ]| Nature and art conspire to$9$ arm the fair, 233:16,119[A ]| For$3$ in$4$ the charming, all things charming are, 233:16,120[A ]| Their glances dart, and every curl a snare. 233:17,000@@@@@| 233:17,000[' ]| 233:17,001[' ]| Whilst by$4$ his grazing flock a gentle swain, 233:17,002[' ]| His vacant hours to$9$ entertain, 233:17,003[' ]| Perused a volume whose each tragic page 233:17,004[' ]| Discoursed of some intrigue of state, 233:17,005[' ]| Of rebel-insolence and rage, 233:17,006[' ]| And some unhappy monarch's fate: 233:17,007[' ]| The youth into these passionate sounds brake forth: 233:17,008[B ]| What virtue of my ancestors 233:17,009[B ]| So$5#1$ much obliged you ye indulgent powers, 233:17,010[B ]| That$3$ in$4$ these silent shades you gave me birth? 233:17,011[B ]| You might have made me fortune's sport, 233:17,012[B ]| Doomed me to$4$ some corrupted court 233:17,013[B ]| Where I this rural bliss had never known! 233:17,014[B ]| My cottage might have been a throne, 233:17,015[B ]| My crook a sceptre, and my wreath a crown: 233:17,016[B ]| Some tyrant-prince I might have been 233:17,017[B ]| (By$4$ your indulgence now a peaceful swain) 233:17,018[B ]| My Chloris some proud, cruel queen, 233:17,019[B ]| The tenderest nymph of the Arcadian plain. 233:17,020[B ]| When for$4$ these blessings I forget to$9$ invoke 233:17,021[B ]| Your powers, neglect to$9$ make your altars smoke, 233:17,022[B ]| Then ravished let me be 233:17,023[B ]| From this secure retreat, 233:17,024[B ]| And placed aloft on$4$ grandeur's seat 233:17,025[B ]| An open mark to$4$ the sure darts of envious destiny. 233:18,000@@@@@| 233:18,000[' ]| 233:18,001[B ]| What cheer my mates? Luff ho! We toil in$4$ vain! 233:18,002[B ]| That$6#2$ northern mist forebodes a hurricane. 233:18,003[B ]| See how the expecting ocean raves, 233:18,004[B ]| The billows roar before the fray, 233:18,005[B ]| Untimely night devours the day; 233:18,006[B ]| In$4$ the dead eclipse we nought descry 233:18,007[B ]| But lightning's wild caprices in$4$ the sky, 233:18,008[B ]| And scaly monsters sparkling through the waves. 233:18,009[B ]| Ply each a hand and furl your sails. 233:18,010[B ]| Port, hard a port ~~ the tackle fails. 233:18,011[B ]| Sound ho! ~~ Five fathom and the most. 233:18,012[B ]| A dangerous shelf! she has struck, and we are lost. 233:18,013[B ]| Speak in$4$ the hold ~~ she leaks amain ~~ give over. 233:18,014[B ]| The crazy boat can work no$2$ more: 233:18,015[B ]| She draws apace and we approach no$2$ shore. 233:18,016[B ]| A ring, my mates: let us join a ring and so$3$ 233:18,017[B ]| Beneath the deep embracing go. 233:18,018[B ]| Now to$4$ new worlds we steer, and quickly shall arrive: 233:18,019[B ]| Our spirits mount as fast as our dull corpses dive. 233:19,000@@@@@| 233:19,000[' ]| 233:19,001[A ]| Ye sages that$6#1$ pretend 233:19,002[A ]| In$4$ science to$9$ transcend 233:19,003[A ]| The dull illiterate crowd; 233:19,004[A ]| You that$6#1$ of ignorance impeach 233:19,005[A ]| (Before your pretences be allowed) 233:19,006[A ]| Define that$6#2$ prudence which$6#1$ you teach: 233:19,007[A ]| I fear it is much above your learning's reach. 233:19,008[A ]| Prudence has no$2$ fixed being, but depends 233:19,009[A ]| On$4$ person, time and chance, 233:19,010[A ]| And every petty circumstance: 233:19,011[A ]| Actions directed to$4$ the self-same ends, 233:19,012[A ]| May prudent the one, the other peccant be; 233:19,013[A ]| For$3$ what would prove discreet in$4$ thee 233:19,014[A ]| Perhaps were wild extravagance in$4$ me. 233:19,015[A ]| The ants are wise that$6#1$ from their summer hoard 233:19,016[A ]| Supply their winter board; 233:19,017[A ]| And doubtless full as wise as they 233:19,018[A ]| The grasshoppers that$6#1$ play 233:19,019[A ]| And revel all their harvest days away; 233:19,020[A ]| For$3$ it were in$4$ them a senseless drudgery 233:19,021[A ]| To$9$ toil for$4$ supply 233:19,022[A ]| In$4$ winter's dearth that$6#1$ must before winter die. 233:20,000@@@@@| 233:20,000[' ]| 233:20,001[A ]| When the late tyrannous malady 233:20,002[A ]| With intermitted rage 233:20,003[A ]| Seemed to$9$ presage 233:20,004[A ]| Or sudden health or dissolution nigh, 233:20,005@a | False world 233:20,005[A ]| (said I) 233:20,005@a | that$6#1$ stealest my real joys, 233:20,006@a | Shuffling instead thy changeling toys, 233:20,007@a | Begone, I will$1$ not be bribed at any rate 233:20,008@a | To$9$ sell my approaching fate 233:20,009@a | And reassume that$6#2$ toilsome task to$9$ live: 233:20,010@a | I prize not grandeur, and I know 233:20,011@a | (Were I thy favourite as I am thy foe) 233:20,012@a | What I affect thou never canst bestow: 233:20,013@a | I would have content; but that$6#2$ was never thine to$9$ give. 233:20,014@a | Remove that$6#2$ taper from my sight: 233:20,015@a | The impertinent light 233:20,016@a | Presents no$2$ grateful object to$4$ my view. 233:20,017@a | Even those fair eyes that$6#1$ planets once appeared 233:20,018@a | (The only planets I revered) 233:20,019@a | To$4$ my dim sight seem now to$9$ have lost their lustre too. 233:20,020[A ]| Thus musing as I lay, to$4$ my bed side, 233:20,021[A ]| Attired in$4$ all his mourning pride, 233:20,022[A ]| The king of terrors came. 233:20,023[A ]| Awful his looks but not deformed and grim: 233:20,024[A ]| He is no$2$ such bug-bear as we feign of him; 233:20,025[A ]| Scarce we ourselves so$5#1$ civilized and tame! 233:20,026[A ]| Unknown the doom assigned me in$4$ this change 233:20,027[A ]| For$4$ full crimes and imperfect penitence 233:20,028[A ]| (Though justly I might dread the strict revenge 233:20,029[A ]| Of an enraged omnipotence), 233:20,030[A ]| Yet with my present griefs distressed, 233:20,031[A ]| With curious thoughts of unknown worlds possessed, 233:20,032[A ]| Inflamed with thirst of liberty, 233:20,033[A ]| Long loved, but never enjoyed by$4$ me, 233:20,034[A ]| I sued for$4$ leave that$6#2$ fatal gulf to$9$ pass: 233:20,035@a | My vital sand is almost run, 233:20,036@a | And Death 233:20,036[A ]| (said I) 233:20,036@a | will$1$ strike anon, 233:20,037@a | Then to$4$ dull life I bid a long farewell. 233:20,038[A ]| But as the last grains fell, 233:20,039[A ]| Death failed my credulous hopes and turned the glass. 233:21,000@@@@@| 233:21,000[' ]| 233:21,001[A ]| In$4$ life's unactive wane your shades forsake 233:21,002[A ]| And into the world a sally make! 233:21,003[A ]| Deluded friend, what surfeit have you taken 233:21,004[A ]| Of bliss that$3$ now you long for$4$ pain? 233:21,005[A ]| The favourites of the austere world are few, 233:21,006[A ]| Yet they have their disasters too. 233:21,007[A ]| What therefore must your entertainment be 233:21,008[A ]| That$6#1$ have professed hostility? 233:21,009[A ]| You have not known to$9$ flatter and caress 233:21,010[A ]| The great for$4$ faithless promises; 233:21,011[A ]| When disappointed, thankful to$9$ appear 233:21,012[A ]| And say how much obliged you are! 233:21,013[A ]| For$4$ lucre you must practise every wile, 233:21,014[A ]| Defraud, and do it with a smile. 233:21,015[A ]| Worldlings with many vices must be fraught 233:21,016[A ]| Which$6#1$ you, my friend, were never taught. 233:21,017[A ]| Well you may roam but soon return distressed, 233:21,018[A ]| Wounded and maimed to$4$ your old nest. 233:22,000@@@@@| 233:22,000[' ]| 233:22,001[A ]| Vile infidel, that$6#1$ darest for$4$ vice declaim 233:22,002[A ]| And take vain pride to$9$ publish thy own shame! 233:22,003[A ]| What can thy patron vice enough confer 233:22,004[A ]| On$4$ his officious zealous orator? 233:22,005[A ]| He will$1$ doubtless give his wonted recompense 233:22,006[A ]| And rot the tongue that$6#1$ pleads in$4$ his defence. 233:22,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:23,000@@@@@| 233:23,000[' ]| 233:23,001[A ]| In$4$ various ways designing mortals move; 233:23,002[A ]| But still the event is in$4$ the hands of Jove. 233:23,003[A ]| Men by$4$ the poor retail of minutes live, 233:23,004[A ]| And fate but lends the life it seems to$9$ give: 233:23,005[A ]| Tenants at will$0$ we are to$4$ heavenly powers, 233:23,006[A ]| And debtors for$4$ the breath we think is ours. 233:23,007[A ]| On$4$ life's wide ocean diversely launched out, 233:23,008[A ]| Our minds alike are tossed on$4$ waves of doubt; 233:23,009[A ]| Holding no$2$ steady course or constant sail, 233:23,010[A ]| But shift and tack with every veering gale. 233:23,011[A ]| Bewitched by$4$ fairy hopes, we tug in$4$ vain, 233:23,012[A ]| Some flying and enchanted isle to$9$ gain; 233:23,013[A ]| Till pitying chance a kind disaster sends, 233:23,014[A ]| And by$4$ a lucky wreck the fruitless labour ends. 233:23,015[A ]| Though night by$4$ night we find, to$4$ our dear cost, 233:23,016[A ]| Our last-spent day, like$4$ all the former, lost; 233:23,017[A ]| On$4$ the next day's uncertain stock to$9$ borrow, 233:23,018[A ]| Till broke with debts on$4$ each insolvent morrow. 233:23,019[A ]| Some run on$4$ score for$4$ weeks or months, and some 233:23,020[A ]| Anticipate for$4$ bliss next year to$9$ come; 233:23,021[A ]| When darling-favourites, they at ease shall sit 233:23,022[A ]| In$4$ fortune's lap, and see their wishes hit, 233:23,023[A ]| Revel in$4$ plenty, pleasure, peace and mirth ~~ 233:23,024[A ]| When lo! before the promised season's birth 233:23,025[A ]| The weening mortal dies ~~ or has his breath 233:23,026[A ]| Prolonged by$4$ sickness to$4$ a living death, 233:23,027[A ]| Or (forced through camps or distant seas to$9$ roam) 233:23,028[A ]| Seeks fate abroad, or found by$4$ fate at home. 233:23,029[A ]| For$3$ human life by$4$ nature's law assigned 233:23,030[A ]| One entrance does a thousand outlets find. 233:23,031[A ]| But still the path to$4$ each with care beset, 233:23,032[A ]| Molesting griefs in$4$ every passage met, 233:23,033[A ]| Whose straggling troops since none can always shun, 233:23,034[A ]| Not to$4$ an alarm or on$4$ the foe to$9$ run 233:23,035[A ]| Is all that$6#1$ by$4$ the wisest can be done; 233:23,036[A ]| And dexterously our skill shall be employed, 233:23,037[A ]| Adding no$2$ griefs to$4$ those we can not avoid. 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:00,000[A ]| 233:24,000@@@@@| 233:24,000[' ]| 233:24,000[' ]| 233:24,001[' ]| See where the royal shrine erected high, 233:24,002[' ]| Threatening the temple's roof as that$6#2$ the sky; 233:24,003[' ]| With starry lamps and banners blazing round, 233:24,004[' ]| And all the pageantry of death is crowned. 233:24,005[' ]| For$3$ ah! with flattering pride and triumph vain 233:24,006[' ]| Those pyramids the dazzling pomp sustain: 233:24,007[' ]| While high in$4$ state their glittering trophies rise, 233:24,008[' ]| Low at their basis, Britain's glory lies. 233:24,009[' ]| Nor sleep those blessed remains in$4$ dead of night 233:24,010[' ]| Watched only by$4$ unactive tapers' light, 233:24,011[' ]| For$3$ thronging seraphs, from celestial bowers, 233:24,012[' ]| Descend to$9$ strew the royal hearse with flowers; 233:24,013[' ]| What sovereign odour from that$6#2$ mixture springs, 233:24,014[' ]| Fanned and sublimed by$4$ hovering angels' wings! 233:24,015[' ]| These rites performed, the ethereal troops resign 233:24,016[' ]| To$4$ forms divine as theirs the royal shrine. 233:24,017[' ]| For$3$, lo! four matrons, deep in$4$ sables clad, 233:24,018[' ]| Of solemn mien and aspect charming sad, 233:24,019[' ]| Advance; with each her ensigns waving high, 233:24,020[' ]| The emblems of her power, or piety. 233:24,021[' ]| August Britannia, the procession leads; 233:24,022[' ]| In$4$ state the Belgian matron her succeeds. 233:24,023[' ]| Britannia's train in$4$ grandeur of a court, 233:24,024[' ]| Her globe, her sceptre, and her crown support; 233:24,025[' ]| Batavia, with her own escutcheon graced, 233:24,026[' ]| Where lions rampant grasp her arrows fast. 233:24,027[' ]| Eusebia next appears in$4$ pomp divine, 233:24,028[' ]| See how her mitre, and her crosier, shine! 233:24,029[' ]| Irene brings the rear; but she, forlorn, 233:24,030[' ]| No$2$ badge but of distress before her borne; 233:24,031[' ]| A wreath of lilies her sad herald wore, 233:24,032[' ]| But lilies crimsoned in$4$ her offspring's gore. 233:24,033[' ]| Now to$4$ their sundry stations they disperse, 233:24,034[' ]| The high-arched inlets to$4$ the sovereign hearse, 233:24,035[' ]| Where solemnly each matron takes her stand, 233:24,036[' ]| With each a fuming censer in$4$ her hand. 233:24,037[' ]| All mute a while, with awful sorrow struck, 233:24,038[' ]| Till Belgia thus in$4$ troubled accents spoke. 233:24,039[B ]| Ah, how transformed from what I was of late! 233:24,040[B ]| How blessed, ye powers, how prosperous was my state! 233:24,041[B ]| My flourishing towns with pleasure I surveyed, 233:24,042[B ]| The word's great mart and seat of commerce made; 233:24,043[B ]| Covering with floating colonies the main, 233:24,044[B ]| While Gallic rage at home I could sustain; 233:24,045[B ]| Visit both poles, to$4$ spicy climates run, 233:24,046[B ]| And spread my naval wings before the rising sun. 233:24,047[B ]| No$2$ more can populous towns, or swelling seas, 233:24,048[B ]| The stronger deluge of my grief appease, 233:24,049[B ]| My spicy Eastern groves no$2$ longer please. 233:24,050[B ]| Matrons sad vigils through my cities keep; 233:24,051[B ]| With streaming tears my sailors swell the deep; 233:24,052[B ]| There tritons, started from their coral cells, 233:24,053[B ]| Ranged on$4$ the rocks to$4$ dirges tune their shells: 233:24,054[B ]| On$4$ separate cliffs their pensive nereids sit, 233:24,055[B ]| No$2$ cheerful song or amorous glance admit; 233:24,056[B ]| No$2$ more with pearl and amber deck their head, 233:24,057[B ]| But mourn, forlorn, their Amphitrite dead, 233:24,058[B ]| From dawn to$4$ dusk, and weep the stars to$4$ bed. 233:24,059[B ]| Ye winds that$6#1$ waft my freighted fleets away, 233:24,060[B ]| Neglect your charge; let useless traffic stay 233:24,061[B ]| Till you to$4$ Java's isle my sighs convey. 233:24,062[B ]| Fate's triumph over nature there proclaim, 233:24,063[B ]| And say Maria is nothing but a name! 233:24,064[B ]| A hearse, an urn, as vulgar mortals are; 233:24,065[B ]| To$4$ earth no$2$ more ~~ but to$4$ the skies a star. 233:24,066[' ]| She said ~~ Irene next her plaints addressed, 233:24,067[' ]| Plaints which$6#1$ her looks too sensibly expressed: 233:24,068[' ]| (An exile from her native shore she fled, 233:24,069[' ]| By$4$ innocence and mourning angels led). 233:24,070[' ]| A pearly shower her fairer face bedews, 233:24,071[' ]| While thus what passion dictates, she pursues. 233:24,072[C ]| Instruct me, grief, unable to$9$ sustain 233:24,073[C ]| Thy pressing weight; to$4$ whom shall I complain? 233:24,074[C ]| To$4$ earth or skies? ~~ It is they that$6#1$ have engrossed. 233:24,075[C ]| It is they that$6#1$ share the treasure I have lost. 233:24,076[C ]| To$4$ seas? ~~ There Thetis comfortless appears, 233:24,077[C ]| And for$4$ herself reserves the ocean's tears. 233:24,078[C ]| To$4$ gentle winds and air if I complain, 233:24,079[C ]| They can but sigh, and sigh like$4$ me in$4$ vain! 233:24,080[C ]| Nature replies, when her relief I try, 233:24,081[C ]| That$3$ she has lost, and grieves as much as I. 233:24,082[C ]| Or would I to$4$ Maria's self address 233:24,083[C ]| (The royal refuge of my past distress), 233:24,084[C ]| The queen of pity I no$2$ longer find 233:24,085[C ]| Enthroned, But here (ah fatal change!) enshrined. 233:24,086[C ]| High rapt in$4$ heavenly bowers her soul remains, 233:24,087[C ]| Her breathless relics a deaf tomb contains. 233:24,088[C ]| Ye happier rivals in$4$ our common grief! 233:24,089[C ]| You mourn, but not like$4$ me, without relief. 233:24,090[C ]| Britain and Belgia through the main can roam, 233:24,091[C ]| Enriched with treasures of both Indies come, 233:24,092[C ]| And, like$4$ an altar, deck Maria's tomb. 233:24,093[C ]| Her hierarchy does fair Eusebia bless: 233:24,094[C ]| Secure she does her sacred rights possess, 233:24,095[C ]| And stores of grateful incense can address. 233:24,096[C ]| What tribute to$4$ her ashes can I give, 233:24,097[C ]| Who$6#1$ only did by$4$ her indulgence live? 233:24,098[C ]| A wretch's last reserve I will$1$ bestow, 233:24,099[C ]| My tears ~~ but see ~~ they uncommanded flow! 233:24,100[C ]| Like$4$ weeping Niobe's their streams renew: 233:24,101[C ]| Oh that$3$ like$4$ her I could turn marble too! 233:24,102[' ]| She ceased! ~~ Eusebia then her starry head 233:24,103[' ]| With mournful grace unveiled, and sighing said: 233:24,104[D ]| If strangers can such deep concern express, 233:24,105[D ]| What accents will$1$ suffice for$4$ my distress! 233:24,106[D ]| Of these remains can I sustain the sight, 233:24,107[D ]| Who$6#1$ claim a subject's and a daughter's right; 233:24,108[D ]| Nursed with her warmest beams, whose lustre filled 233:24,109[D ]| My front with stars and did my mitre gild. 233:24,110[D ]| Eve, new created, no$2$ such pleasure took 233:24,111[D ]| Her own bright form discovering in$4$ the brook; 233:24,112[D ]| And, wheresoever her ravished eyes she threw, 233:24,113[D ]| Still to$9$ have blooming paradise in$4$ view. 233:24,114[D ]| So$3$ I at my own happiness admired ~~ 233:24,115[D ]| Ah where are now those golden dreams retired? 233:24,116[D ]| Their faint idea my sick thought employs, 233:24,117[D ]| A cold remembrance of departed joys. 233:24,118[D ]| As ship-wrecked mariners on$4$ some bleak shore, 233:24,119[D ]| The riches of their perished freight deplore, 233:24,120[D ]| Let me, the treasure I have lost declare, 233:24,121[D ]| Too vast for$4$ time and nature to$9$ repair. 233:24,122[D ]| Be hushed ye winds, ye skies serene and clear, 233:24,123[D ]| No$2$ lowering cloud or angry wave appear, 233:24,124[D ]| While my Maria's virtues I recite! 233:24,125[D ]| Oh were my language like$4$ her virtues bright 233:24,126[D ]| The charming sounds would guests from heaven invite: 233:24,127[D ]| Heaven would be here, and with immortal lays, 233:24,128[D ]| Myself a seraph, while I sung her praise. 233:24,129[D ]| What ancient poets did, inspired, aver 233:24,130[D ]| Of female worth was prophecy of her; 233:24,131[D ]| And what their age by$4$ revelation saw, 233:24,132[D ]| Posterity must from her story draw. 233:24,133[D ]| Her breast each centring excellence could boast, 233:24,134[D ]| The scattered virtues of her sex engrossed; 233:24,135[D ]| Nor did those beams on$4$ her refracted fall, 233:24,136[D ]| She all possessed, and in$4$ perfection all; 233:24,137[D ]| Could majesty and mildness reconcile, 233:24,138[D ]| Hold sovereign awe, yet on$4$ her subjects smile. 233:24,139[D ]| Not only calm, but constant was her mind, 233:24,140[D ]| Fixed as the centre to$4$ earth's globe assigned: 233:24,141[D ]| A fortress, which$6#1$ the fates in$4$ vain assailed, 233:24,142[D ]| And where the baffled king of terrors failed; 233:24,143[D ]| Cheerful as angels or the springing day 233:24,144[D ]| That$6#1$ tunes the groves and makes the meadows gay. 233:24,145[D ]| For$3$ blameless mirth heaven's offspring is confessed, 233:24,146[D ]| And heaven was ever in$4$ Maria's breast. 233:24,147[D ]| Her words and actions, all exactly weighed 233:24,148[D ]| In$4$ reason's scale, and by$4$ discretion swayed, 233:24,149[D ]| Alike from prejudice and passion free, 233:24,150[D ]| Henceforth of prudence shall the standard be. 233:24,151[D ]| Let heaven (with heaven she correspondence held) 233:24,152[D ]| Say how my saint in$4$ piety excelled. 233:24,153[D ]| Its sinking empire how she did support 233:24,154[D ]| And to$4$ a sanctuary reformed a court. 233:24,155[D ]| Say, how her bright example could disarm 233:24,156[D ]| Established vice and make religion charm. 233:24,157[D ]| What frequent visits to$4$ my temple pay, 233:24,158[D ]| And there instruct devotion how to$9$ pray; 233:24,159[D ]| Where thronging cherubs did her zeal attend, 233:24,160[D ]| Ambitious who$6#1$ should with her vows ascend. 233:24,161[D ]| But charity, her soul's essential grace, 233:24,162[D ]| In$4$ tenderest strokes was pictured in$4$ her face, 233:24,163[D ]| Who$6#1$ like$4$ an angel could at sufferings melt, 233:24,164[D ]| Condole the misery she had never felt. 233:24,165[D ]| Relieved, till royal bounty she had drained, 233:24,166[D ]| Then with her tears the exhausted store maintained; 233:24,167[D ]| Kind as the pelican in$4$ times of need, 233:24,168[D ]| When for$4$ her craving offspring she does bleed. 233:24,169[D ]| Such was my sovereign! such and yet expired! 233:24,170[D ]| To$4$ earth so$5#1$ needful, yet from earth retired. 233:24,171[D ]| Yet see! No$2$ wreck of elements is found! 233:24,172[D ]| Time journeys on$5$, and nature keeps her round: 233:24,173[D ]| Our vales may bloom again, our groves be green, 233:24,174[D ]| No$2$ more the goddess of the spring be seen! 233:24,175[D ]| She is fled! Divine Maria's vanished hence, 233:24,176[D ]| And sleeps with queens of common providence. 233:24,177[D ]| Like$4$ them, she has to$4$ fate resigned her breath; 233:24,178[D ]| O triumph of the grave! O pomp of death! 233:24,179[D ]| With her entombed ~~ 233:24,180[D ]| Youth, beauty, virtue, their interment have. 233:24,181[D ]| O pomp of death! O triumph of the grave! 233:24,182[D ]| Yet tyrants live, ah! What can reason say? 233:24,183[D ]| They keep their thrones who$6#1$ iron sceptres sway. 233:24,184[D ]| Support me faith; if faith too feeble be, 233:24,185[D ]| Support my faith Maria's piety! 233:24,186[' ]| She paused and wept. 233:24,187[' ]| Britannia, though with equal grief oppressed; 233:24,188[' ]| Majestic thus her orisons addressed. 233:24,189[E ]| Hail saint and queen, ~~ too weak alas that$6#2$ style! 233:24,190[E ]| Hail heroine and goddess on$4$ our isle! 233:24,191[E ]| My Pallas, who$6#1$ could absent Mars supply; 233:24,192[E ]| And, Jove withdrawn, like$4$ Juno rule the sky. 233:24,193[E ]| Empire she prized not, though to$4$ empire born, 233:24,194[E ]| Nor sought the power she could so$5#1$ well adorn: 233:24,195[E ]| Yet held her British throne securely calm, 233:24,196[E ]| As Deborah within her grove of palm; 233:24,197[E ]| From whose oraculous shade she did prescribe, 233:24,198[E ]| And audience gave to$4$ each consulting tribe, 233:24,199[E ]| My regent, with such grandeur, such address, 233:24,200[E ]| In$4$ council swayed; and pressed with last distress, 233:24,201[E ]| Like$4$ her, spoke victory and looked success. 233:24,202[E ]| In$4$ public storms she heard the billows rave, 233:24,203[E ]| And cheerfully the needful orders gave. 233:24,204[E ]| With pious hope adjusted her commands, 233:24,205[E ]| And left the event in$4$ providence's hands. 233:24,206[E ]| She knew what mien the sceptre, crown and globe, 233:24,207[E ]| What majesty became the imperial robe; 233:24,208[E ]| But from the encumbrance freed of sovereign awe, 233:24,209[E ]| What artist can her milder beauties draw? 233:24,210[E ]| What colours shall express? What pencil trace 233:24,211[E ]| The charms that$6#1$ did her conversation grace? 233:24,212[E ]| How beaming joys her aspect did adorn, 233:24,213[E ]| And how she moved the goddess of the morn. 233:24,214[E ]| What harmony did in$4$ her language dwell; 233:24,215[E ]| How sullen griefs her accents could dispel, 233:24,216[E ]| While softer they than shedding roses fell. 233:24,217[E ]| Methinks I hear lamenting April say, 233:24,218[E ]| Unwelcome now returns my latest day, 233:24,219[E ]| That$6#1$ once eclipsed the blooming pride of May. 233:24,220[E ]| The day that$6#1$ with auspicious hours did smile, 233:24,221[E ]| And gave a Jubilee to$4$ Britain's isle. 233:24,222[E ]| No$2$ more that$6#2$ festival shall entertain 233:24,223[E ]| The court with revel or harmonious strain: 233:24,224[E ]| For$3$ cheerful songs my bards must now retreat 233:24,225[E ]| And dirges breathe to$4$ some forsaken seat. 233:24,226[E ]| Seek gloomy vales, where blasted nature pines, 233:24,227[E ]| And grief with night in$4$ cold embraces joins. 233:24,228[E ]| Let there, what never must in$4$ crowds be told, 233:24,229[E ]| Your mourning muse that$6#2$ dismal scene unfold. 233:24,230[E ]| Let fancy there rehearse in$4$ wild complaint, 233:24,231[E ]| The sickening sovereign, the expiring saint. 233:24,232[E ]| When sacrilegious maladies combined, 233:24,233[E ]| Beauty's imperial temple undermined. 233:24,234[E ]| How ravaging through her rich veins they flew, 233:24,235[E ]| Till all in$4$ one assault ~~ 233:24,236[E ]| Against her generous heart their forces drew. 233:24,237[E ]| While nature could no$2$ more the fort supply, 233:24,238[E ]| And vanquished art itself stood sighing by$5$. 233:24,239[E ]| Well may his sons despair when Phoebus shrouds 233:24,240[E ]| His baffled head, and skulks in$4$ conscious clouds 233:24,241[E ]| Drives wide his wain, shuns his meridian way 233:24,242[E ]| And through continued darkness steals the day. 233:24,243[E ]| Immortal powers, can you behold ungrieved 233:24,244[E ]| Her agonies, who$6#1$ nations had relieved? 233:24,245[E ]| Amidst her pangs, see how she lies resigned 233:24,246[E ]| To$4$ your disposal, while you seem unkind! 233:24,247[E ]| Undaunted, yet to$4$ your allegiance true, 233:24,248[E ]| Bids death defiance, but submits to$4$ you. 233:24,249[E ]| She sees distraction through her palace spread, 233:24,250[E ]| She sees the graces weeping round her bed, 233:24,251[E ]| Yet still composed; till her expiring sight 233:24,252[E ]| Her swooning hero ~~ Here let deepest night 233:24,253[E ]| Her mantle spread, and nature's face disguise, 233:24,254[E ]| While Caesar sinks and while Maria's eyes 233:24,255[E ]| Closing transfer their glories to$4$ the skies. 233:24,256[E ]| Oh what convulsions now shook Britain's breast! 233:24,257[E ]| Her sun and moon in$4$ one eclipse oppressed. 233:24,258[E ]| Yet, O Alcides of our age, sustain 233:24,259[E ]| Thy last and greatest task to$9$ live and reign! 233:24,260[E ]| This conquest must distinguish your bright name, 233:24,261[E ]| And write you foremost in$4$ the list of fame. 233:24,262[E ]| Death never is distant when perfection is near; 233:24,263[E ]| Virtue sublimed will$1$ quickly disappear. 233:24,264[E ]| Maria is fallen! Worthy to$9$ have survived 233:24,265[E ]| Till Caesar's promised triumphs were arrived; 233:24,266[E ]| Till harassed Europe's freedom she surveyed, 233:24,267[E ]| And crowned the halcyon days for$4$ which$6#1$ she prayed. 233:24,268[E ]| Speak you, who$6#1$ commerce with immortals hold, 233:24,269[E ]| These labyrinths of providence unfold! 233:24,270[E ]| Eusebia speak! 233:24,271[' ]| Eusebia's sacred breast 233:24,272[' ]| With rapture filled, inspiring zeal confessed. 233:24,273[' ]| Divinely bright, her frontlet stars appeared, 233:24,274[' ]| While up$5$ towards heaven her ravished eyes she reared. 233:24,275[' ]| The temple shakes, the yielding roof gives way, 233:24,276[' ]| And opes a prospect to$4$ eternal day. 233:24,277[' ]| Through all the dome ambrosial fragrance spread, 233:24,278[' ]| While thus, in$4$ ecstasy, the matron said: 233:24,279[D ]| With robes invested of celestial dye 233:24,280[D ]| She towers and treads the empyrean sky! 233:24,281[D ]| Angelic choirs, skilled in$4$ triumphant song, 233:24,282[D ]| Heaven's battlements and crystal turrets throng. 233:24,283[D ]| The signal is given, the eternal gates unfold, 233:24,284[D ]| Blazing with jasper, wreathed in$4$ burnished gold. 233:24,285[D ]| From bowers of amaranth and nectar streams 233:24,286[D ]| (Mansions of rapture and inspiring dreams) 233:24,287[D ]| The host of saints Maria's triumph meet, 233:24,288[D ]| Maria, all, their own Maria greet. 233:24,289[D ]| Behold a reverend shade steps forth, his head 233:24,290[D ]| Mitred in$4$ glory, deep his vestments spread. 233:24,291[D ]| O patriarch mild! Thy aspect still I know, 233:24,292[D ]| That$6#1$ even on$4$ earth so$5#1$ much of heaven did show. 233:24,293[D ]| Heaven's messenger to$4$ us, thou first didst prove, 233:24,294[D ]| And now Maria is to$4$ the blessed above. 233:24,295[D ]| Now, pointing up$5$, he shows, prepared on$4$ high, 233:24,296[D ]| Her chair of state and starry canopy: 233:24,297[D ]| She takes her throne, but there installed, so$5#1$ bright 233:24,298[D ]| Her form, I lose her in$4$ excess of light. 233:25,000@@@@@| 233:25,000[' ]| 233:25,001[A ]| Go shepherds, to$4$ your cottages retire. 233:25,002[A ]| Your Dorset mourns ~~ no$2$ more the pipe inspire! 233:25,003[A ]| Your mirth is done, your care is vain ~~ what need 233:25,004[A ]| To$9$ tend those flocks that$6#1$ will$1$ no$2$ longer feed? 233:25,005[A ]| Nature herself with troubled face appears, 233:25,006[A ]| And sable robes for$4$ her lost darling wears; 233:25,007[A ]| She sighs in$4$ storms, and weeps in$4$ showers of tears. 233:25,008[A ]| Her vital powers in$4$ discontent retreat; 233:25,009[A ]| Her elemental fire withdraws its heat. 233:25,010[A ]| The sullen air admits no$2$ cheerful beam, 233:25,011[A ]| And grief has silenced every vocal stream. 233:25,012[A ]| Even earth that$6#1$ does the precious relics shroud, 233:25,013[A ]| Laments the treasure that$6#1$ should make her proud: 233:25,014[A ]| Alone exempted from the general care, 233:25,015[A ]| The skies rejoice to$9$ have regained a star: 233:25,016[A ]| With fresh recruits of light they shine and glow, 233:25,017[A ]| Regardless of our sufferings here below; 233:25,018[A ]| With cruel joy they triumph at our cost, 233:25,019[A ]| And revel with the prize that$6#1$ we have lost. 233:25,020[A ]| Profane disease! thy crime had been too great 233:25,021[A ]| In$4$ only battering so$5#1$ fair a seat; 233:25,022[A ]| Which$6#1$ spitefully thou quite hast undermined, 233:25,023[A ]| Because the bright remains would still have shined. 233:25,024[A ]| So$3$ envious Rome no$2$ method could employ 233:25,025[A ]| Fair Carthage to$9$ subdue but to$9$ destroy. 233:25,026[A ]| Mute are the groves where happy shepherds sung, 233:25,027[A ]| And Philomel once more has lost her tongue. 233:25,028[A ]| The palm and myrtle groves no$2$ longer please; 233:25,029[A ]| Cyprus and yew are now the only trees. 233:25,030[A ]| The mournfullest objects most endearments have, 233:25,031[A ]| The lonesome vale delights; the gloomy cave 233:25,032[A ]| Can please because it represents the grave. 233:25,033[A ]| Tears our refreshment are, our sole relief 233:25,034[A ]| No$2$ more to$9$ wish or hope, 233:25,035[A ]| But give despair free scope, 233:25,036[A ]| And roll the impetuous tide of grief! 233:25,037[A ]| If then so$5#1$ just and vast the sorrow be. 233:25,038[A ]| Of all who$6#1$ did the living wonder see, 233:25,039[A ]| Or only her famed character have heard, 233:25,040[A ]| To$9$ think such worth and beauty are interred; 233:25,041[A ]| How then shall be conceived, or how expressed, 233:25,042[A ]| The pangs that$6#1$ rent a tender mothers breast? 233:25,043[A ]| What language that$6#1$ can still the raging seas, 233:25,044[A ]| Charm discontent, and to$4$ despair give ease, 233:25,045[A ]| The conflict of maternal sighs appease? 233:25,046[A ]| Should wit pretend (what wit can never effect) 233:25,047[A ]| To$9$ treat the fair deceased with due respect; 233:25,048[A ]| In$4$ proper colours her resemblance paint, 233:25,049[A ]| In$4$ form an angel as in$4$ life a saint: 233:25,050[A ]| To$9$ say she was, when we can only say 233:25,051[A ]| That$3$ (oh!) she was ~~ all mild as springing day, 233:25,052[A ]| Cheerful and beauteous as the bloom of May; 233:25,053[A ]| That$3$, goddess-like, her presence did impart, 233:25,054[A ]| Reviving joys to$4$ every drooping heart; 233:25,055[A ]| That$3$ she spake music ~~ that$3$ for$4$ mien and air 233:25,056[A ]| She was all charms ~~ and yet as good as fair! 233:25,057[A ]| To$9$ show the meek, the generous patroness 233:25,058[A ]| And comforter of others in$4$ distress, 233:25,059[A ]| Herself laid languishing without redress, 233:25,060[A ]| Will$1$ this relieve a mourning parent's grief? 233:25,061[A ]| Ah! miserable art 233:25,062[A ]| That$6#1$ only canst impart 233:25,063[A ]| The food of sorrow, an unkind relief. 233:25,064[A ]| One only sovereign balm sick nature bears, 233:25,065[A ]| A royal mourner's sympathising tears. 233:25,066[A ]| Though gods nor goddesses may fate reverse, 233:25,067[A ]| A goddess, weeping, consecrates the hearse. 233:25,068[A ]| Behold the graces waiting on$4$ her urn, 233:25,069[A ]| Transformed as much as she for$4$ whom they mourn! 233:25,070[A ]| While Virtue's fairer train stand sighing by$5$, 233:25,071[A ]| Concerned such heavenly excellence could die. 233:25,072[A ]| Youth, Beauty, Innocence, assembled there, 233:25,073[A ]| With withered looks ~~ Zeal, Piety and Prayer, 233:25,074[A ]| Belief and Hope transfigured to$4$ despair. 233:25,075[A ]| There Charity, cold as her statue, stands, 233:25,076[A ]| And there Compassion wrings her helpless hands! 233:25,077[A ]| These were the tenderest darlings of her breast, 233:25,078[A ]| And like$4$ the turtle-brood, when dispossessed, 233:25,079[A ]| Hover and moan about their ruined nest! 233:25,080[A ]| While Death alone, with an insulting smile, 233:25,081[A ]| In$4$ triumph sits before the mournful pile. 233:25,082[A ]| Mistaken tyrant! thy designs are crossed, 233:25,083[A ]| It is thou and we who$6#1$ by$4$ this change have lost: 233:25,084[A ]| Of more than life thou only hast deprived 233:25,085[A ]| Those wretched mortals who$6#1$ her fate survived. 233:25,086[A ]| Look up$5$ and see, what will$1$ thy pride confound, 233:25,087[A ]| Thy rescued captive there with glory crowned! 233:25,088[A ]| Behold her seated in$4$ a bower of state 233:25,089[A ]| (Above the reach of any second fate) 233:25,090[A ]| While saints and seraphs on$4$ her triumph grow 233:25,091[A ]| With flowers that$6#1$ in$4$ celestial Eden grow, 233:25,092[A ]| They weave eternal chaplets for$4$ her brow, 233:25,093[A ]| While heavenly harmony her art employs 233:25,094[A ]| Echoed with songs of never-ceasing joys, 233:25,095[A ]| O sacred hierarchy! O realms of light! 233:25,096[A ]| Transporting vision ~~ but for$4$ mortal sight 233:25,097[A ]| Too dazzling, too insufferably bright! 233:25,098[A ]| Aspiring muse descend, the dusky plains 233:25,099[A ]| And vale of death best suit thy pensive strains. 233:25,100[A ]| Oh, since hard fate allows no$2$ more, return 233:25,101[A ]| To$9$ crown with bays and verse the sacred urn, 233:25,102[A ]| Such verse as may the gloomy desert charm. 233:25,103[A ]| Watch, guard the lovely saint's remains from harm; 233:25,104[A ]| With vital tears overcome 233:25,105[A ]| The coldness of her tomb, 233:25,106[A ]| And keep with glooming sighs her ashes ever warm. 233:25,107[A ]| Oh whither will$1$ the dismal scene extend! 233:25,108[A ]| Successive woe, where will$1$ thy current end? 233:25,109[A ]| Behold, forlorn, the muse's patron laid 233:25,110[A ]| With mourning Cupids in$4$ a cypress shade! 233:25,111[A ]| Of fate nor cruel skies he once complains 233:25,112[A ]| But inwardly the conflict he sustains, 233:25,113[A ]| The struggling tumult of his breast restrains. 233:25,114[A ]| O, Dorset, could our worthless lives pretend 233:25,115[A ]| (Whose comforts only on$4$ thy smiles depend) 233:25,116[A ]| To$9$ bribe thy griefs, how pleased could we resign 233:25,117[A ]| Our breaths, compounding for$4$ one pang of thine. 233:25,118[A ]| Our useless breaths are tendered now in$4$ vain, 233:25,119[A ]| Since tuneful notes no$2$ more must cheer the plain: 233:25,120[A ]| Let numbers cease ~~ for$3$ whom should they relieve 233:25,121[A ]| That$6#1$ can no$2$ comfort to$4$ their patron give? 233:25,122[A ]| Yet, Dorset, live ~~ in$4$ pity to$4$ the age, 233:25,123[A ]| That$6#1$, to$9$ condole thy loss, forgets its rage. 233:25,124[A ]| The impious age from that$6#2$ one crime is free, 233:25,125[A ]| Mad with intestine strife we all agree 233:25,126[A ]| Both in$4$ admiring and lamenting thee. 233:25,127[A ]| Let those dear pledges intercede at least, 233:25,128[A ]| The living relics of the fair deceased, 233:25,129[A ]| Till, infant beauty to$4$ full bloom arrived, 233:25,130[A ]| The mother's charms and virtues has revived; 233:25,131[A ]| Adorned with all that$6#1$ nature's self can crave 233:25,132[A ]| To$9$ make a full reprisal on$4$ the grave; 233:25,133[A ]| Till dawning Buckhurst to$4$ his zenith rise, 233:25,134[A ]| And warm (like$4$ you) and gild our northern skies; 233:25,135[A ]| Till a new series of unclouded years 233:25,136[A ]| (Reserved for$4$ him) in$4$ shining rank appears; 233:25,137[A ]| When his ripe fame shall every muse employ, 233:25,138[A ]| Next age's Dorset, Britain's second joy. 233:00,000[A ]|