285 So well in paint and ftone they judg'd of merit: "No Lord's anointed, but a Ruffian Bear." d 390 Not with fuch 4 majefty, fuch bold relief, The Forms auguft, of King, or conqu'ring Chief, E'er fwell'd on marble; as in verfe have fhin'd (In polish'd verfe) the Manners and the Mind. Oh! could I mount on the Mæonian wing, Your Arms, your Actions, your Repose to fing! What f feas you travers'd, and what fields you fought! Your Country's Peace, how oft, how dearly bought! How barb'rous rage fubfided at your word, 394 And Nations wonder'd while they drop'd the sword! How, when you noded, o'er the land and deep, 4c0 h Peace stole her wing, and wrapt the world in sleep; Ad libros et ad haec Mufarum dona vocares; < Boeotum in craffo jurares aere natum. [At neque dedecorant tua de fe judicia, atque Munera, quae multa dantis cum laude tulerunt, Dilecti tibi Virgilius Variufque poetae ;] d Nec magis expreffi & vultus per ahenea figna, Quam per vatis opus mores animique virorum Clarorum apparent. nec fermones ego mallem Repentes per humum, quam res componere geftas, Terrarumque f fitus et flumina dicere, et arces Montibus impofitas, et & barbara regna, tuifque Aufpiciis totum confecta duella per orbem, Clauftraque cuftodem pacis cohibentia Janum, 'Till earth's extremes your mediation own, And i Asia's Tyrants tremble at your Throne But k Verse, alas! your Majefty disdains; 405 410 475 Et i formidatam Parthis, te principe, Romam: * Carmen majeftas recipit tua; nec meus audet in Nec prave factis decorari verfibus opto: 1 Cloath fpice, line trunks, or flutt'ring in a row, Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho. Deferar in vicum vendentem thus et odores, THE Second Epistle of the Second Book OF HORA CE. D Ludentis fpeciem dabit, et torquebitur. HoR. EAR Col'nel, COBHAM's and your country's You love a Verfe, take fuch as I can fend. b A Frenchman comes, prefents you with his Boy, Bows and begins-"This Lad, Sir, is of Blois: "Obferve his shape how clean! his locks how curl'd! "My only fon, I'd have him fee the world: Flore, bono claroque fidelis amice Neroni. b Si quis forte velit puerum tibi vendere natum Tibure vel Gabiis, et tecum fic agat: "Hic et "Candidus, et talos a vertice pulcher ad imos, "Fiet eritque tuus nummorum millibus octo; "Verna minifteriis ad nutus aptus heriles; VER. 4. This Lad, Sir, is of Blois :] A Town in Beauce, where the French tongue is spoken in great purity. "His French is pure; his Voice too-you shall hear. "To fay too much, might do my honour wrong. 66 But, Sir, to you, with what would I not part? 15 "Tho 'faith, I fear, 'twill break his Mother's heart. "Once (and but once) I caught him in a lye, "And then unwhipp'd, he had the grace to cry: "The fault he has I fairly fhall reveal, "(Could you o'erlook but that) it is to steal. If, after this, you took the graceless lad, Could you complain, my Friend, he prov'd fo bad? Faith, in fuch cafe, if you fhould profecute, I think Sir Godfrey fhould decide the fuit; "Litterulis Græcis imbutus, indoneus arti Res urget me nulla meo fum pauper in aere. "Nemo hoc mangonum faceret tibi: non temere a me "Quivis ferret idem : femel hic ceffavit, et (ut fit) 20 VER. 24. I think Sir Godfrey] An eminent Juftice of Peace, who decided much in the manner of Sancho Pancha.---Sir lodfrey Kneller. |