To fee her eyes with vary'd pleasure move,
And all the nymph confefs the power of love.
Nature's not thus indulgent to the young,
Thefe joys alone to riper years belong :
Who youth enjoys, drinks crude unready wine,
Let age your girl and fprightly juice refine,
Mellow their fweets, and make the tafte divine.
To Helen who'd Hermione prefer,
Or Gorgé think beyond her mother fair:
But he that covets the experienc'd dame,
Shall crown his joys, and triumph in his flame.
One confcious bed receives the happy pair:
Retire, my Mufe; the door demands thy care.
What charming words, what tender things are faid!
What language flows without thy ufelefs aid!
There fhall the roving hand employment find,
Infpire new flames, and make ev'n virgins kind.
Thus Hector did Andromache delight,
Hector in love victorious, as in fight.'
When weary from the field Achilles came,
Thus with delays he rais'd Brifeïs' flame.
Ah, could thofe arms, those fatal hands delight,
Infpire kind thoughts, and raife thy appetite!
Could'ft thou, fond maid, be charm'd with his embrace,
Stain'd with the blood of half thy royal race?
Nor yet with speed the fleeting pleasures wafte,
Still moderate your love's impetuous hafte :
The bafhful virgin, though appearing coy,
Detains your hand, and hugs the proffer'd joy.
Then view her eyes with humid luftre bright,
Sparkling with rage, and trembling with delight:
Her kind complaints, her melting accents hear,
The eye fhe charms, and wounds the liftening ear.
Defert not then the clafping nymph's embrace,
But with her love maintain an equal pace :
Raife to her heights the tranfports of your foul,
And fly united to the happy goal.
Obferve these precepts when with leisure blest,
No threatening fears your private hours moleft;
When danger's near, your active force employ,
And urge with eager fpeed the hasty joy :
Then ply your oars, then practise this advice,
And ftrain with whip and fpur, to gain the prize.
The work's complete: triumphant palms prepare,
With flowery wreaths adorn my flowing hair.
As to the Greeks was Podalirius' art,
To heal with medicines the afflicted part:
Neftor's advice, Achilles' arms in field,
Automedon for chariot-driving skill'd;
As Chalchas could explain the mystic bird,
And Telemon could wield the brandish'd sword :
Such to the town my fam'd inftructions prove,
So much am I renown'd for arts of love:
Me every youth fhall praise, extol my name,
And o'er the globe diffuse my lasting fame.
Iarms provide against the scornful fair;
Thus Vulcan arm'd Achilles for the war.
Whatever youth shall with my aid o'ercome,
And lead his Amazon in triumph home;
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Let him that conquers, and enjoys the dame,
In gratitude for his inftructed flame,
Infcribe the fpoils with my aufpicious name.
The tender girls my precepts next demand:
Them I commit to a more skilful hand.
S when the eagle, with a parent's love,
Prepares her young to vifit realms above:
With heaven's full luftre fhe allures him on,
Firft to admire, and then approach the fun
Unweary'd he furveys the orb of light,
Charm'd by the object to maintain his flight.
To you th' afpiring Mufe her labour brings,
Thus tries its fate, and thus expands her wings:
Tempted to gaze on your aufpicious light,
This hafty birth to you directs its flight;
The beauties of your mind transported views, d
Admiring fings, and pleas'd her flight purfues.
Permit thefe loofe, unfinish'd lines to claim bab,
The kind protection of your parent's name :
Though void of ornaments, and every grace,
Accept the piece, as facred to your race.
Where you behold your great forefathers fame,
And trace the fprings from whence your virtues came:
Survey the triumphs, and the honours view,
That by a long descent devolve on you.
In vain the Muse her vanquish'd pencil tries,
Where unexhausted stores of beauty rise :
Languid and faint her labours must appear,
Whilft you tranfcend her fairest character.
So bright in
you your father's graces shine,
your ancient line;
And all the virtues of
That none with pleasure can the copy view,
Whilst the original furvives in you.
HAT man renown'd what British worthy's praise
Infpires the Mufe! and confecrates her lays!
Record thy Afton's celebrated name,
Difplay his virtues, and tranfmit his fame.
Illuftrious actions to thy care belong,
And form the beauties of heroic fong:
None c'er appear'd with fo immense a store,
Nor ever grac'd harmonious numbers more.
Nor ftain, my Mufe, with thy officious tears,
The bright example for fucceeding years:
Whilft others in dejected notes complain,
Sublime thy fong, attempt a nobler strain.
With verfc affuage his pious off-fpring's care,
And calm the forrows of the weeping fair :
Difpel the fhades that fate untimely fpread,
And cease to mourn for the immortal dead.
Where out-ftretch'd Britain in the ocean's loft,
And Dee and rapid Mercy bound the coaft;
There hills arife with fylvan honours crown'd,
There fruitful vales and fhady ftreams abound,
Not Median groves, not Tempe's boafted plain,
Nor where Pactolus' fands inrich the main,
Can yield a profpect fairer to the fight,
Nor charm with fcenes of more auguft delight.
Here Lupus and his warlike chiefs obtain'd
Imperial fway, and great in honours reign'd:
Deriving titles from their fwords alone,
Their laws preferv'd, and liberties their own.
As when two fwelling floods their waves oppofe, Nor would confound the urns from whence they 1ofe: 30 But by degrees uniting in a ftream,
Forget their fountains, and become the fame.
Thus ftrove the Britains with the Norman race,
Fierce with their wrongs, and confcious of difgrace: 35
But when the fury of their arms was o'er,
Whom thirst of empire had engag'd before,
Now Friendship binds, and Love unites the more.
From whom a long descent of worthies shine,
Juft to the glories of their martial line:
Admiring Fame their matchlefs force records,
Their bounteous minds, and hofpitable boards.
Where Weever haftens to receive the Dane,
Refreshing with united streams the plain;
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