Atheist, and rebel too, fhe does oppofe (God and the king have always the fame foes). A conquering champion for the Deity And what the hot-brain'd Arian first began, Who ftill affociates to keep God a man. But 'tis the prince of poets' task alone T'affert the rights of God's and Charles's throne. By chaunting Chloris' or fair Phyllis' name; Whose reputation shall last as long, As fops and ladies fing the amorous fong. A nobler fubject wifely they refuse, The mighty weight would crush their feeble Muse. Could draw a minor-god with wondrous art: To Mr. DRYDEN, upon his Tranflation of the Third Book of VIRGIL'S GEORGICKS. A PINDARIC ODE. By Mr. JOHN DENNIS. WHILE mounting with expanded wings The Mantuan fwan unbounded heaven explores, While with feraphic founds he towering fings, Mankind ftands wondering at his flight, Thou, Dryden, canft his notes recite II. Sometimes of humble rural things, Thy Mufe, which keeps great Maro ftill in fight, But first takes time with majesty to rife, Com Commands, which judgment gives, the still obeys, Thus Mercury from heaven defcends, When Jove his dread commands has given : III. But when thy Goddess takes her flight, With fo much majefty, to fuch a height, As can alone fuffice to prove, That the defcends from mighty Jove : Gods! how thy thoughts then rise, and soar, and shine! Immortal spirit animates each line; Each with bright flame that fires our fouls is crown'd, Each has magnificence of found, And harmony divine. Thus the first orbs, in their high rounds, With fhining pomp advance; And to their own coeleftial founds Majestically dance. On, with eternal fymphony, they roll, Each turn'd in its harmonious course, And each inform'd by the prodigious force CON CONTENTS OF THЕ THE SECOND VOLUME. HE Hind and the Panther, in three Parts. Part I. Part II. Part III. Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Prince, born on the 10th of June 1688 Page 27 52 Mac-Flecnoe 97 109 EPISTLE S. Epifle I. To Sir Robert Howard II. To Dr. Charleton III. To the Lady Castlemain IV. To Mr. Lee 117 121 123 125 Xill. To John Dryden, Efq; of Chesterton 144 XIV. To XIV. Prologue to his Royal Highness, 1682 XV. Prologue to the Earl of Effex XVI. An Epilogue for the King's Houfe XVII. Prologue to the Loyal Brother XVIII. Epilogue to the fame XIX. Prologue to the University of Oxford, fpoken 244 246 247 249 251 by Mr. Hart, at the acting of the Silent Woman 252 XX. Epilogue, fpoken by the fame 254 XXI. Epilogue, spoken at Oxford by Mrs. Marshall 255 XXII. Prologue to the University of Oxford XXIII. Another XXIV. Epilogue to Conftantine the Great 257 258 259 XXV. Prologue to the Difappointment XXVI. Prologue to the King and Queen, upon the Union of the two Companies, 1666 261 264 XXXI. Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia, revived 271 |