The British general dooms the fight; his sword head Confefs'd fhe fits; the hoftile troops recede : human eyes. But we must change the ftyle-juft now I faid, Or the fmall genius which my youth could boaft, That, from Marseilles to Calais, France may know, And either laurel does in Britain grow; 2 That, That, though among ourselves, with too much heat, UPON THIS PASSAGE IN THE SCALIGERIANA. "Les Allemans ne ce foucient pas quel Vin ils boivent pourveu que ce foit Vin, ni quel Latin ils parlent 66 pourveu que ce foit Latin." WHEN you with High-Dutch Heeren dine, Expect falfe Latin, and stumm'd wine: They never taste, who always drink; то LORDS, knights, and 'fquires, the numerous band, That wear the fair Mifs Mary's fetters, Were fummon'd by her high command, II. My pen amongst the reft I took, Left those bright eyes that cannot read Nor quality, nor reputation, Forbid me yet my flame to tell; For, while fhe makes her filk-worms beds With all the tender things I fwear; Whilft all the house my paffion reads, In papers round her baby's hair; She V. may receive and own my flame, For, though the ftricteft prudes fhould know it, She'll pafs for a most virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet. VOL. XXXIII. C VI. Then VI. Then too, alas! when fhe fhall tear She'll give me leave to write, I fear, For, as our différent ages move, 'Tis fo ordain'd, (would Fate but mend it!) That I shall be past making love, When the begins to comprehend it. PARTIAL I. FAME. THE fturdy Man, if he in love obtains, The fubtile Woman, if fhe fhould fucceed, II. Though He, for all his boaft, is forc'd to yield, He vaunts his conquests, she conceals her shame; FOR FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN, ON WHICH ARE The Effigies of the QUEEN on a Triumphal Arch; The Figure of the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH beneath; AND The chief Rivers of the World round the whole Work. YE E active ftreams, where'er your waters flow, What ye from Thames and Danube have been taught, How Anne commanded, and how Marlborough fought. Quocunque æterno properatis, flumina, lapfu, Dicite, nam vobis Tamefis narravit & Ifter, THE CAMEL E O N. S the Cameleon, who is known To have no colours of his own; But borrows from his neighbour's hue His white or black, his green or blue; |