Those piles, which serve them to repel the Main,
They think too weak his fury to restrain.
"What wonders may not English valour work,.
"Led by th' example of victorious York?
"Or, what defence against him can they make,
"Who, at such distance, does their country shake?
"His fatal hand their bulwarks will o'erthrow;
"And let in both the ocean and the foe."

Thus cry the people :-and, their land to keep,
Allow our title to command the Deep:

Blaming their States' ill conduct, to provoke
Those arms, which freed them from the Spanish yoke.

Painter! excufe me, if I have a-while

Forgot thy art, and us'd another style:

For, though you draw arm'd Heroes as they fit;
The task in battle does the Mufes fit:

They, in the dark confufion of a fight,
Difcover all; inftruct us how to write;
And light and honour to brave actions yield;
Hid in the fmoke and tumult of the field.
Ages to come fhall know that Leader's toil,
And his great name, on whom the Muses fmile:
Their dictates here let thy fam'd pencil trace;
And this relation with thy colours grace.

Then draw the Parliament, the Nobles met;

And our * Great Monarch high above them fet :
Like young Augustus let his image be,

Triumphing for that victory at fea;

*King Charles II.

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Where

Where* Egypt's Queen, and Eastern Kings, o'erthrown,
Made the poffeffion of the world his own.
Laft draw the Commons at his royal feet,
Pouring out treasure to supply his fleet:
They vow with lives and fortunes to maintain
Their King's eternal title to the Main :
And, with a present to the Duke, approve
His valour, conduct, and his country's love.

G

TO THE KING.

REAT Sir! difdain not in this piece to stand,

Supreme commander both of sea and land:
Those which inhabit the celestial bower,
Painters express with emblems of their power;
His club Alcides, Phœbus has his bow,
Jove has his thunder, and your navy You.
But your great providence no colours here
Can reprefent; nor pencil draw that care,
Which keeps you waking, to secure our peace,
The nation's glory, and our trade's increase:
You, for these ends, whole days in council fit;
And the diverfions of your youth forget.

Small were the worth of valour and of force,
If your high wisdom govern'd not their course :
You as the foul, as the First Mover you
Vigour and life on every part bestow:

How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast,
Inftru&t the artifts; and reward their hafte.

* Cleopatra.

King Charles II.

So,

So, Jove himself, when Typhon heaven does brave, Defcends to vifit Vulcan's smoky cave:

Teaching the brawny Cyclops how to frame
His thunder, mix'd with terror, wrath, and flame.
Had the old Greeks discover'd your abode,
Crete had not been the cradle of their God:

On that small island they had look'd with scorn ;
And in Great Britain thought the Thunderer born.

A Prefage of the RUIN of the TURKISH EMPIRE: Prefented to his Majefty King JAMES II. on his Birth-Day.

SINCE James the Second grac'd the British throne,

Truce, well-obferv'd, has been infring'd by none: Christians to him their prefent union owe, And late fuccefs against the common foe: While neighbouring princes, loth to urge their fate, Court his affiftance, and suspend their hate. So angry bulls the combat do forbear, When from the wood a lion does appear. This happy day peace to our Island fent ; As now he gives it to the Continent. A Prince more fit for fuch a glorious task, Than England's King, from Heaven we cannot ask : He (great and good !) proportion'd to the work, Their ill-drawn fwords fhall turn against the Turk.

Such Kings, like stars with influence unconfin'd, Shine with aspect propitious to mankind;

Favour the innocent, repress the bold;

And, while they flourish, make an age of gold.
Bred in the camp, fam'd for his valour young;
At sea successful, vigorous, and strong ;
His fleet, his army, and his mighty mind,
Efteem and reverence through the world do find.
A Prince, with such advantages as these,
Where he perfuades not, may command a peace,
Britain declaring for the jufter fide,

The most ambitious will forget their pride :
They that complain will their endeavours cease,
Advis'd by him, inclin'd to present peace;
Join to the Turk's destruction; and then bring
All their pretences to so just a King.

If the fuccessful troublers of mankind,
With laurel crown'd, fo great applause do find
Shall the vex'd world less honour yield to those
That ftop their progrefs, and their rage oppofe?
Next to that power which does the ocean awe,
Is, to fet bounds, and give ambition law.

The British Monarch fhall the glory have, That famous Greece remains no longer slave: That source of art, and cultivated thought! Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought. The banish'd Mufes fhall no longer mourn ; But may with Liberty to Greece return : Though flaves (like birds that sing not in a cage) They loft their genius and poetic rage;

Homers again, and Pindars, may be found;

And his great actions with their numbers crown'd.

The

`The Turk's vaft empire does united stand:
Chriftians, divided under the command
Of jarring princes, would be foon undone,
Did not this Hero make their intereft one:
Peace to embrace, ruin the common foe,
Exalt the Cross, and lay the Crefcent low.

Thus may the Gospel to the rifing fun
Be fpread, and flourish where it first begun :
And this great day (so justly honour'd here!)
Known to the east, and celebrated there.

"Hæc ego longævus cecini tibi, maxime regum! "Aufus & ipfe manu juvenum tentare laborem."

VIRG.

ΤΟ THE

DUCHESS,

When he prefented this Book to her ROYAL

HIGHNESS.

MADAM! I here prefent you with the rage,

And with the Beauties, of a former age:

Wishing you may with as great pleasure view
This, as we take in gazing upon you.
Thus we writ then: your brighter eyes inspire
A nobler flame, and raise our genius higher.
While we your wit and early knowledge fear,
To our productions we become severe :
Your matchlefs beauty gives our fancy wing;
Your judgment makes us careful how we fing.