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Appearing and beginning noble deeds,

Mightft thou expel this Monster from his Throne
Now made a ftye, and in his place ascending
A victor, people free from fervile yoke?
And with my help thou may'ft; to me the pow'r
Is giv'n, and by that right I give it thee.
Aim therefore at no less than all the world,
Aim at the highest, without the highest attain'd
Will be for thee no fitting, or not long
On David's Throne, he prophefy'd what will.
To whom the Son of God unmov'd reply'd.
Nor doth this grandeur and majestick show
Of luxury, though call'd magnificence,
More than of Arms before, allure mine eye,

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Much less my mind; though thou shouldft add to tell Their fumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts

On Citron tables or Atlantic ftone,

(For I have also heard, perhaps have read)
Their wines of Setia, Cales and Falerene,
Chios and Creet, and how they quaff in Gold,
Chrystal and Myrrhine cups imbos'd with Gems
And ftuds of Pearl, to me fhou'dft tell who thirst
And hunger ftill: then Embaffies thou fhew'ft
From Nations far and nigh; what honour that,
But tedious wafte of time to fit and hear
So many hollow compliments and lies,
Outlandish flatteries? then proceed'ft to talk
Of th' Emperor, how easily subdu❜d,
How gloriously; I fhall, thou fay'ft, expel,
A brutish monfter: what if I withal
Expel a Devil who first made him fuch?

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Let his tormenter Confcience find him out,
For him I was not fent, nor yet to free

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That People victor once, now vile and base,
Deservedly made vaffal, who once juft,

Frugal, and mild, and temp'rate, conquer'd well,
But govern ill the Nations under yoke,

Peeling their Provinces, exaufted all

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But

But luft and rapine; first ambitious grown
Of triumph, that infulting vanity;

Then cruel, by their sports to blood enur'd

Of fighting beafts, and men to beasts expos'd,
Luxurious by their wealth, and greedier ftill,
And from the daily Scene effeminate.
What wife and valiant Man would feek to free
Thefe thus degen'rate, by themselves enflav'd,
Or could of inward flaves make outward free?
Know therefore when my feafon comes to fit
On David's Throne, it fhall be like a tree,
Spreading and overshad'wing all the Earth,
Or as a ftone that shall to pieces dash

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All Monarchies befides throughout the World,
And of my Kingdom there shall be no end:

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Means there fhall be to this, but what the means,
Is not for thee to know, nor me to tell.
To whom theTempter impudent reply'd :
I fee all offers made by me how flight
Thou valu'ft, because offer'd, and reject'st:
Nothing will please the difficult and nice,
Or nothing more than still to contradict:
On th' other fide know also thou, that I
On what I offer fet as high esteem,

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Nor what I part with mean to give for naught;
All these which in a moment thou behold'st,
The Kingdoms of the World to thee I give ;
For giv'n to me, I give to whom I please,
No trifle; yet with this referve, not elfe,
On this condition, if thou wilt fall down,
And worship me as thy fuperior Lord,
Eafily done, and hold them all of me;
For what can lefs fo great a gift deserve?

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Whom thus our Saviour anfwer'd with difdain:

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I never lik'd thy talk, thy offers lefs,

Now both abhor, fince thou haft dar'd to utter

Th' abominable terms, impious condition;

But I endure the time, till which expir'd,

Thou

Thou haft permiffion on me. It is written

The first of all Commandments, Thou shalt worship
The Lord thy God, and only him shalt serve;
And dar'ft thou to the Son of God propound
To worship thee accurft, now more accurft
For this attempt, bolder than that on Eve,
And more blafphemous which expect to rue.
The Kingdoms of the World to thee were giv3n,
Permitted rather, and by thee ufurp'd,
Other donation none thou canst produce:

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If giv'n, by whom but by the King of Kings,

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God over all Supreme? if giv'n to thee,

By thee how fairly is the Giver now

Repay'd? But gratitude in thee is loft

Long fince. Wert thou fo void of fear or fhame,
As offer them to me the Son of God,

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To me my own, on such abhorred pa&t,
That I fall down and worship thee as God?

Get thee behind me; plain thou now appear'st
That Evil one, Satan for ever damn'd.

To whom the Fiend with fear abasht reply'd.

Be not fo fore offended, Son of God;
Though Sons of God both Angels are and Men,
If I to try whether in higher fort

Than these thou bear'st that title, have propos❜d
What both from men and Angels I receive,
Tetrarchs of fire, air, flood and on the earth
Nations befides from all the quarter'd winds,
God of this world invok'd and world beneath;
Who then thou art whose coming is foretold
To me fo fatal, me it moft concerns.
The tryal hath endamag'd thee no way,
Rather more honour left and more efteem;
Me naught advantag'd, miffing what I aim'd.
Therefore let pass, as they are transitory,
The Kingdoms of this world; I shall no more
Advise thee, gain them as thou canft, or not.
And thou thy self seçm'st otherwise inclin'd

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Than

Than to a worldly Crown, addicted more

To contemplation and profound difpute,
Asby that early action may be judg'd,

When flipping from thy Mother's eye thou went’st
Alone into the Temple; there was found
Among the graveft Rabbies difputant

On points and questions fitting Mofes Chair,

Teaching not taught; the childhood fhews the man,

As morning fhews the day. Be famous then
By wisdom; as thy Empire must extend,
So let extend thy mind o'er all the world,
In knowledge, all things in it comprehend:
All knowledge, is not couch'd in Moses' Law,
The Pentateuch, or what the Prophets wrote,
The Gentiles alfo know, and write, and teach
To admiration, led by Nature's light;
And with the Gentiles much thou must converse,
Ruling them by perfwafion as thou mean'ft,
Without their learning how wilt thou with them,
Or they with thee hold converfation meet?
How wilt thou reason with them, how refute

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Their Idolisms, Traditions, Paradoxes?

Error by his own arms is beft evinc'd.

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Look once more cre we leave this specular Mount
Weftward, much nearer by South-weft, behold
Where on th' Agyan fhore a City stands

Built nobly, pure the air, and light the foil,

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Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the fummer long,

There flow'ry hill Hymettus with the found

Of Bees induftrious murmur oft invites

To ftudious mufing; there Iliffus rolls

His whip' ring ftream; within the walls then view 250.

The

The Schools of ancient Sages; his who bred
Great Alexander to fubdue the World,

Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next :
There thoufhalt hear and learn the secret pow'r
Of harmony in tones and numbers hit

By voice or hand, and various measur'd verle,
Aoilan charms and Dorian Lyric Odes,

And his who gave them breath, but higher fung,
Blind Melefigenes thence Homer call'd,

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Whose Poem Phabus challeng'd for his own.

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Thence what the lofty grave Tragoedians taught
In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best

Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd,

In brief fententious precepts while they treat

Of fate and chance, and change in human life;

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High actions, and high paffions best describing:
Thence to the famous Orators repair,

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Mellifluous ftreams that water'd all the Schools
Of Academics old and new, with those

Sirnam'd Peripateticks, and the Sect

Epicurean, and the Stoic fevere;

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These here revolve, or, as thou lik'ft, at home,
Till time mature thee to a Kingdom's weight;
These rules will render thee a King compleat
Within thy felf, much more with Empire join'd.
To whom our Saviour fagely thus reply'd.
Think not, but that I know these things, or think
I know them not; not therefore am I short

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Of knowing what I aught; he who receives

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