PRESENTED TO THE KING, AT HIS ARRIVAL IN HOLLAND, AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONSPIRACY,1 MDCXCVI. Serus in cœlum redeas; diuque Tollat Ocyor aura HOR. ad Augustum. YE careful angels, whom eternal Fate Ordains, on earth and human acts to wait; 1 This conspiracy is generally called the Assassination Plot. Sir John Fenwick was executed for being concerned in it. Britain her safety to your guidance owns, That she can sep'rate parricides from sons; That, impious rage disarm'd, she lives and reigns, Of guardian spirits, be thou for ever blest; We angels' forms in pious monarchs view; Indulgent Fate our potent prayer receives; And still Britannia smiles, and William lives. The hero dear to earth, by heav'n belov❜d, By troubles must be vex'd, by dangers prov'd: His foes must aid to make his fame complete, And fix his throne secure on their defeat. So, though with sudden rage the tempest comes: Though the winds roar, and though the water foams, Imperial Britain on the sea looks down, For William still new wonders shall be shown: By sounding trumpets, hear, and rattling drums, When William to the open vengeance comes: And see the soldier plead the monarch's right, Heading his troops, and foremost in the fight. Hence then, close Ambush and perfidious War, Down to your native seats of Night repair. And thou, Bellona, weep thy cruel pride Restrain❜d, behind the victor's chariot tied TO CLOE WEEPING. SEE, whilst thou weep'st, fair Cloe, see Each droops his head, and hangs his wing. Strange tears! whose power can soften all, TO MR. HOWARD.1 AN ODE. DEAR Howard, from the soft assaults of Love, Can I untouch'd the fair one's passions move? Or thou draw beauty, and not feel its power? 1"Hugh Howard, better known by these beautiful verses to him, than by his own works, was son of Ralph Howard, doctor of physic, and was born in Dublin, February 7, 1675. His father being driven from Ireland by the troubles that followed the Revolution, brought the lad to England, who discovering a disposition to the arts and Belles Lettres, was sent to travel in 1697; and, in his way to Italy, passed through Holland in the train of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, one of the plenipotentiaries at the treaty of Ryswick. Mr. Howard proceeded as he had intended, and having visited France and Italy, returned home in October, 1700. "Some years he passed in Dublin: the greatest and latter part of his life he spent entirely in England, practising painting, at least with applause; but having ingratiated himself by his fame and knowledge of lands with men of the first rank, particularly the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Pembroke, and by a parsimonious management of his good fortune, and of what he received with his wife, he was enabled to quit the practical part of his profession for the last twenty years of his life; the former peer having obtained for him the posts of Keeper of the State Papers, and Paymaster of his Majesty's Palaces. In this pleasing situation he amused himself with forming a large collection of prints, |