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With an unequal ray, or that his deed
With paler glory fhould recede,

Eclips'd by theirs, or leffen'd by the fame
E'en of his own maternal Naffau's name.

XXX.

Thou fmiling feeft great Dorfet's worth confeft,
The ray diftinguishing the patriot's breast ;
Born to protect and love, to help and please,
Sovereign of wit, and ornament of peace.
O! long as breath informs this fleeting frame,
Ne'er let me pafs in filence Dorfet's name;
Ne'er ceafe to mention the continu'd debt
Which the great patron only would forget,
And duty, long as life, muft study to acquit.

XXXI.

Renown'd in thy records fhall Ca'ndish ftand,
Afferting regal pow'r and just command.
To the great houfe thy favour fhall be fhown.
The father's ftar tranfmiffive to the fon.
For thee the Talbots and the Seymours race
Inform'd, their fires' immortal feps fhall trace:
Happy may their fons receive

The bright reward which thou alone canft give.
XXXII.

And if a god thefe lucky numbers guide,
If fure Apollo o'er the verse prefide,
Jerfey, belov'd by all, (for all must feel

The influence of a form and mind

Where comely grace and conftant virtue dwell,

Like mingled ftreams, more forcible when join'd)

Jerfey fhall at thy altars ftand,

Shall there receive the azure band,

That faireft mark of favour and of fame,

Familiar to the Villiers' name.

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XXXIII.

Be our great mafter's future charge;

Science to raife, and knowledge to enlarge,

To write his own memoirs, and leave his heirs
High fchemes of government and plans of wars;

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By fair rewards our noble youth to raise
To emulous merit and to thirst of praise;
To lead them out from eafe ere op'ning dawn
Thro' the thick foreft and the distant lawn,
Where the fleet ftag employs their ardent care,
And chafes give them images of war:
To teach them vigilance by falfe alarms
Inure them in feign'd camps to real arms;
Practife them now to curb the turning fteed,
Mocking the foe, now to his rapid speed
To give the rein, and in the full career

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To draw the certain fword, or fend the pointed fpear.

XXXIV.

Let him unite his fubjects hearts,

Planting focieties for peaceful arts;

Some that in nature fhall true knowledge found,

And by experiment make precept found;

Some that to morals fhall recall the age,

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And purge from vicious drofs the finking ftage; 445
Some that with care true eloquence fhall teach,
And to juft idioms fix our doubtful fpeech,

That from our writers diftant realms may know
The thanks we to our monarch owe,

And schools profefs our tongue thro' ev'ry land 450
That has invok'd his aid or bleft his hand.

XXXV.

Let his high pow'r the drooping Mufes rear,
The Mufes only can reward his care;
'Tis they that guard the great Atrides' fpoils;

'Tis they that still renew Ulyffes toils :

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To them by fmiling Jove 'twas giv'n to fave
Diftinguifh'd patriots from the common grave;
To them great William's glory to recall,
When itatues moulder and when arches fall.

Nor let the Mufes with ungrateful pride

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The fources of their treafure hide;
The hero's virtue does the ftring infpire,
When with big joy they ftrike the living lyre:
On William's fame their fate depends:

With him the fong begins, with him it ends,

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From the bright effluence of his deed.
They borrow that reflected light

With which the lafting lamp they feed,

Whofe beams difpel the damps of envious night.

XXXVI.

Thro' various climes, and to each distant pole,
In happy tides let active Coinmerce roll;
Let Britain's fhips export an annual fleece,
Richer than Argos brought to ancient Greece,
Returning loaden with the fhining stores
Which lie profuse on either India's fhores.
As our high veffels pafs their wat`ry way
Let all the naval world due homage pay ;
With hafty rev'rence their top-honours lower,
Confeffing the afferted pow'r

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To whom by Fate 'twas giv'n, with happy fway 480 To calm the earth and vindicate the fea.

XXXVII.

Our pray'rs are heard; our master's fleets fhall go
As far as winds can bear or waters flow,

New lands to make, new Indias to explore,

In worlds unknown to plant Britannia's pow'r; 485

Nations yet wild by precept to reclaim,

And teach 'em arms and arts in William's name.

XXXVIII.

With humble joy and with refpectful fear
The lift'ning people fhall his ftory hear;
The wounds he bore, the dangers he fuftain'd,
How far he conquer'd, and how well he reign'd;

Shall own his mercy equal to his fame,

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And form their children's accents to his name,
Inquiring how and when from heav'n he came.
Their regal tyrants fhall with blushes hide
Their little lufts of arbitrary pride,

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Nor bear to fee their vaffals ty'd:

When William's virtues raife their op'ning thought,

His forty years for public freedom fought,

Europe by his hand fuftain'd,

His conqueft by his piety reftrain'd,

And o'er himself the last great triumph gain'd.

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XXXIX.

No longer fhall their wretched zeal adore
Ideas of deftructive pow'r,
Spirits that hurt, and godheads that devour:
New incenfe they fhall bring, new altars raife,
And fill their temples with a stranger's praife;
When the great father's character they find
Vifibly ftampt upon the hero's mind,
And own a prefent Deity confeft,

In valour that preserv'd, and pow'r that bleft.
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Thro' the large convex of the azure sky
(For thither Nature cafts our common eye)
Fierce meteors fhoot their arbitrary light,
And comets march, with lawless horror bright.

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Thefe hear no rule, no righteous order own,
Their influence dreaded as their ways unknown;
Thro' threaten'd lands they wild destruction throw,
Till ardent pray'r averts the public woe:
But the bright orb that bleffes all above,

The facred fire, the real fon of Jove,
Rules not his actions by capricious will,
Nor by ungovern'd pow'r declines to ill :
Fixt by juft laws he goes for ever right;

Man knows his courfe, and thence adores his light.
XLI.

0 Janus! would entreated Fate confpire

To grant what Britain's wishes could require,
Above, that fun fhould ceafe his way to go,
Ere William ceafe to rule and blefs below:
But a relentless destiny

Urges all that e'er was born

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Snatch'd from her arms, Britannia once must mourn

The demi-god; the earthly half muft die.
Yet if our incenfe can your wrath remove,
If human pray'rs avail on minds above,
Exert, great God, thy int'reft in the sky,
Gain each kind pow'r, each guardian deity,
That conquer'd by the public vow,
They bear the difmal mitchief far away:

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O! long as utmost Nature may allow,
Let them retard the threaten'd day :
Still be our master's life thy happy care;

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Still let his bleffings with his years increase;

To his laborious youth, confum'd in war,

Add lafting age, adorn'd and crown'd with peace:
Let twifted olives bind thofe laurels faft,
Whofe verdure muft for ever last.

XLII.

Long let this growing era blefs his fway,
And let our fons his prefent rule obey;
On his fure virtue long let earth rely,
And late let the imperial Eagle fly,
To bear the hero thro' his father's sky
To Leda's twins, or he whofe glorious speed
On foot prevail'd, or he who tam'd the steed :
To Hercules at length, abfolv'd by Fate
From earthly toil, and above envy great :
To Virgil's theme, bright Cytherea's fon,
Sire of the Latian and the British throne;
To all the radiant names above,
Rever'd by men and dear to Jove;
Late, Janus, let the Naffau-ftar
New-born, in rifing majefty appear,
To triumph over vanquish'd night,
And guide the profp'rous mariner
With everlasting beams of friendly light.

CELIA TO DAMON.

Atque in amore mala hæc proprio, fummeque fecundo
Inveniuntur.-----

Lucret. Lib. IV.

HAT can I fay, what arguments can prove

WHAT

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My truth, what colours can defcribe my love,

If its excefs and fury be not known

In what thy Celia has already done?

Thy infant flames, whilft yet they were conceal'd 5 In tim'rous doubts, with pity I beheld?

With eafy fimiles difpell'd the filent fear

That durft not tell me what I dy'd to hear.

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