VII. Thus footh'd and reconcil'd, each feeks The faireft British fair; The feat of empire is her cheeks, They reign united there. IDEM LATINE REDDITUM. I. HEU inimicitias quoties parit æmula forma, Sed fines ultrà folitos difcordia tendit, Cum flores ipfos bilis et ira movent. II. Hortus ubi dulces præbet tacitofque receffus; Ira rofam et meritis quæfita fuperbia tangunt, IV. Altior IV. Altior emicat illa, et celfo vertice nutat, V. Nec Dea non fenfit civilis murmura rixæ, VI. Et tibi forma datur procerior omnibus, inquit, VII. His ubi fedatus furor eft, petit utraque nympham Hanc penes imperium eft, nihil optant amplius, hujus Regnant in nitidis, et fine lite, genis. THE THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW WORM. A Nightingale that all day long Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, The ་་ The fongfter heard his fhort oration, And found a fupper fomewhere else. That brother should not war with brother, Till life's poor tranfient night is spent, The gifts of nature and of grace. Thofe chriftians beft deferve the name O matutini rores, auræque falubres, O nemora, et lætæ rivis felicibus herbæ, Quam vellem ignotus, quod mens mea semper avebat, VOL. I. N Ante Ante larem proprium placidam expectare fene&tam, Tum demùm exactis non infeliciter annis, Sortiri tacitum lapidem, aut sub cespite condi! On a GOLDFINCH ftarved to Death in his Cage. I. TIME was when I was free as air, My drink the morning dew; I perch'd at will on ev'ry spray, II. But gawdy plumage, fprightly ftrain, And form genteel were all in vain, And of a tranfient date, For caught and cag'd and starv'd to death, In dying fighs my little breath Soon pafs'd the wiry grate. III. Thanks, gentle fwain, for all my woes, And thanks for this effectual clofe And |