INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONOURABLE COLONEL GEORGE VILLIERS, DROWNED IN THE RIVER PIAVA, 1703. IN IMITATION OF HORACE, I OD. XXVIII "Te maris & terræ numeroque carentis arenæ SAY, deareft Villiers, poor departed friend Ere To fpread a doubtful down, and promise man? In vigour To wake, more confirm'd, and riper years, ere morning dawn, to loud alarms, And march till clofe of night in heavy arms; To fcorn the fummer's funs and winter's Inows, dance. Alike muft every state and every age Sustain the universal tyrant's rage : Holben's For neither William's power, nor Mary's charms, Young Churchill fell, as life began to bloom; The ancient Sage, who did fo long maintain And |