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The peals of Naffau's arms thefe eyes unclofe,
Mine he molefts, to give the world repofe.
That cafe I offer with contempt he flies,
His couch a trench, his canopy the skies.
Nor climes nor feafons his refolves control,
Th' equator has no heat, no ice the pole.
With arms refiftlefs o'er the globe he flies,
And leaves to Jove the empire of the fkies.

But, as the flothful God to yawn begun,
He fhook off the dull mift, and thus went on :
'Twas in this reverend dome I fought repose,
These walls were that afylum I had chofe.
Here have I rul'd long undisturb'd with broils,
And laugh'd at heroes, and their glorious toils.
My annals are in mouldy mildews wrought,
With eafy infignificance of thought.

VARIATIONS.

Since he has blefs'd the weary world with peace,
And with a nod has bid Bellona cease;

I fought the covert of fome peaceful cell,
Where filent fhades in harmlefs raptures dwell;
That reft might paft tranquillity restore,
And mortal never interrupt me more.

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Nought underneath this roof but damps are found,
Nought heard but drowsy beetles buzzing round.
Spread cobwebs hide the walls, and duft the floors,
And midnight filence guards the noiseless doors.

*See Boil. Lut.

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But now fome bufy, enterprizing brain
Invents new fancies to renew my pain,

And labours to diffolve my easy reign.

With that, the God his darling Phantom calls,
And from his faltering lips this message falls:
Since mortals will dispute my power, I'll try
Who has the greatest empire, they or I.
Find Envy out, fome prince's court attend,
Most likely there you'll meet the famish'd fiend;
Or where dull critics authors' fate foretell;
Or where stale maids, or meagre eunuchs, dwell;
Tell the bleak fury what new projects reign,
Among the homicides of Warwick-lane;
And what th' event, unless fhe ftrait inclines
To blaft their hopes, and baffle their defigns.
More he had spoke, but fudden vapours rife,
And with their filken cords tie down his eyes.

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Or in cabals, or camps, or at the bar,
Or where ill poets pennylefs confer,
Or in the fenate-house at Weftminster.

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OON as the evening veil'd the mountains heads,
And winds lay hush'd in fubterranean beds;

Whilft fickening flowers drink up the filver dew,
And beaux for fome affembly drefs anew;
The city faints to prayers and play-house hafte;.
The rich to dinner, and the poor to reft:
Th' officious phantom then prepar'd with care
To flide on tender pinions through the air.
Oft' he attempts the fummit of a rock,
And oft' the hollow of fome blasted oak;
At length approaching where bleak Envy lay;
The hiffing of her fnakes proclaim'd the way.

Beneath the gloomy covert of an yew,
That taints the grafs with fickly fweats of dew
No verdant beauty entertains the fight,
But baneful hemlock, and cold aconite;
In a dark grot the baleful haggard lay,
Breathing black vengeance, and infecting day.

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But how deform'd, and worn with fpiteful woes,
When Accius has applause, Dorfennus shews.
The cheerful blood her meagre cheeks forfook,
And basilifks fate brooding in her look ;
A bald and bloated toad-ftool rais'd her head;
The plumes of boding ravens were her bed :
From her chapp'd noftrils fcalding torrents fall,
And her funk eyes boil o'er in floods of gall.
Volcanos labour thus with inward pains,
Whilft feas of melted ore lay wafte the plains.
Around the fiend in hideous order fate
Foul bawling Infamy, and bold Debate ;
Gruff Discontent, through ignorance mif-led,
And clamorous Faction at her party's head;
Reftlefs Sedition ftill diffembling fear,
And fly Hypocrify with pious leer.

Glouting with fullen fpite the fury shook
Her clotted locks, and blafted with each look;
Then tore with canker'd teeth the pregnant fcrolls,

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Where Fame the acts of demi-gods enrolls;

And, as the rent-records in pieces fell,

Each scrap did some immortal action tell.

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This fhow'd, how fix'd as fate Torquatus ftood,

That, the fam'd paffage of the Granic flood;

The Julian eagles, here, their wings display,
And there, like setting stars, the Decii lay;
This does Camillus as a God extol,

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That points at Manlius in the capitol;

How Cocles did the Tiber's furges brave,

How Curtius plung'd into the gaping grave.

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Great Cyrus, here, the Medes and Perfians join,
And, there, th' immortal battle of the Boyne.

As the light meffenger the fury spy'd,
Awhile his curdling blood forgot to glide:
Confufion on his fainting vitals hung,
And faltering accents flutter'd on his tongue :
At length, affuming courage, he convey'd
His errand, then he fhrunk into a fhade.

The Hag lay long revolving what might be
The bleft event of fuch an embassy :

Then blazons in dread fmiles her hideous form;
So lightning gilds the unrelenting storm.

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Ver. 60.

Then the alas! how long in vain have I
Aim'd at these noble ills the fates deny?
Within this ifle for ever muft I find
Difafters to diftract my restlefs mind?
Good Tenifon's celeftial piety

At laft has rais'd him to the facred fee.
Somers does fickening equity reftore,

And helplefs orphans are opprefs'd no more.

Pembroke to Britain endlefs bleffings brings;

He fpoke; and Peace clapp'd her triumphant wings. Great Ormond fhines illuftriously bright

With blazes of hereditary right.

The noble ardour of a royal fire

Infpires the generous breast of Devonshire.
And Macclesfield is active to defend

His country with the zeal he loves his friend.
Like Leda's radiant fons divinely clear,
Portland and Jerfey deck'd in rays appear,
To gild by turns the Gallic hemifphere.

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