Pleas'd in the mufe's nook, with decent pride, 71 To throw the scepter'd pall of state aside : Nor from the shade fhall GEORGE be long away, That claims CHARLOTTA's love, and courts her stay. These are Britannia's praises. Deign to trace With rapt reflection Freedom's favorite race! 76 But though the generous ifle, in arts and arms, Thus ftand fupreme, in nature's choicest charms; Though GEORGE and Conqueft guard her feagirt throne, One happier bleffing ftill fhe calls her own; 80 And, proud to cull the fairest wreath of Fame, Crowns her chief honours with a CHARLOTTE's name. His nymph-like face ne'er felt the nimble fheers. i. 2. And in Drayton's 3d Idea: Bright flar of beauty, on whose eyelids fit A thousand nymph-like and enamour'd graces. Vol. iv. p. 1260. V. 71. —with decent pride,]" Decent," in its claffical fenfe of becoming, graceful. Quo fugit Venus? heu! quove color? decens Quo motus? Hor. Od. IV. xiii. 17. Milton had given authority to use it so: -And held Before his decent steps a filver wand. Par. Loft, iii. 643. It is connected in Young's Love of Fame with the same substantive as in the text: With what a decent pride he throws his eyes. Sat. i. ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. (Written after the Installation at Windfor, in the fame Year, 1762.) IMPERIAL Dome of Edward, wife and brave! Where warlike Honour's brightest banners wave; At whofe proud Tilts, unmatch'd for hardy deeds, Heroic kings have frown'd on barbed steeds: Though now no more thy crefted chiefs advance In arm'd array, nor grafp the glittering lance; Though Knighthood boafts the martial pomp no more, That grac'd its gorgeous feftivals of yore; Say, conscious Dome, if e'er thy marshall'd knights So nobly deck'd their old majeftic rites, 10 As when, high thron'd amid thy trophied shrine, GEORGE fhone the leader of the garter'd line? Yet future triumphs, Windfor, ftill remain; Still may thy bowers receive as brave a train: V. I, Imperial dome of Edward, wife and brave!] Windfor Castle built by Edward the Third. See Ode for New Year, 1788. ver 33. note. This poem feems to have fuggefted a hint for the opening of a prize-poem on the Love of Country by Dr. Butfon, Dean of Waterford, at that time (1772) Fellow of New College. 15 For lo! to Britain and her favour'd Pair, Heaven's high command has fent a facred Heir! Him the bold pattern of his patriot fire 21 Shall fill with early fame's immortal fire: Meantime, thy royal piles that rise elate With many an antique tower, in maffy state, V. 19. In life's fresh fpring, ere buds the promis'd prime,] Spenfer's Shepherd's Calendar, December: Whilom in youth, when flow'r'd my youthful spring. "Prime" in the text is perfection: Were they of manly prime or youthful bloom? Comus, 289. On which fee Warton's note; fee alfo note on Ode for New Year, 1786. ver. 3. He uses it fo again, in the Hamlet ; Nor fell Disease before his time Haftes to confume life's golden prime. Ver. 47. V. 28. With many an antique tower, in maffy state,] Il Penferofo: And love the high embowed roof With antic pillars, may proof. Ver. 157. "Antique" is a favourite epithet with our poet. In the young champion's mufing mind shall raise Vaft images of Albion's elder days. While, as around his eager glance explores 30 Thy chambers, rough with war's conftructed ftores, 35 eye; Rude helms, and bruised fhields, barbaric spoils Nor can a fairer kindred title move His emulative age to glory's love 40 Than Edward, laureate prince. In letter'd truth, Oxford, fage mother, school'd his ftudious youth: V. 30. Vaft images of Albion's elder days.] A fine and expreffive line. In Verfes on Sir J. Reynolds's Painted Window ; That deck'd heroic Albion's elder day. Ver. 12. Sonnet iii. ver. II. The pomp of elder days." Ode for New Year, 1787. ver. 21. "The Bard of elder days." On death of George II. ver. 8o. "In elder times fhe woo'd munificence." V. 36. Young Edward's fable mail] "Sable" is the epithet by which our poet uniformly characterises the Black Prince. In Triumpb of Ifis, ver. 205. "The fable-fuited Prince." In Ode on Approach of Summer, ver. 322. "Edward, ftern in fable mail.” In Ode for King's Birth-day, 1787. ver. 15. " The prince in fable steel." Her fimple institutes, and rigid lore, 45 Nor fhunn'd, at penfive eve, with lonesome pace The cloister's moonlight-chequer'd floor to trace; V. 45. Her fimple inftitutes, and rigid lore, The royal nurfling unreluctant bore ;] A manifeft imitation of Gray: Stern rugged nurfe! thy rigid lore With patience many a year the bore. Ode to Adv. V. 46. The royal nurfling] Probably from Tickell, who fays of the Black Prince and Henry V. both educated at Queen's College, Thy nurfelings, ancient dome! On ber Majefty's rebuilding part of Queen's College, Oxford. The words "nourfling" and "nourfle" occur frequently in Spenfer: the latter is thus connected in one passage with a subject similar to that before us : Whether ye lift him traine in Chevalry, Or nourfle up in lore of learn'd Philofophy. F. 2. VI. iv. 35. And the poet thus addreffes the English Univerfities, IV. xi. 26. Joy to you both, ye double Nourfery Of Arts! In a paffage quoted from Spenfer, note on Grave of Artbur, ver. 168, Arthur is called the nourfling of Merlin. The word is used by Milton, Samf. Agon. ver. 633. I was his nourfling once and dear delight. V. 47. Nor fhunn'd, at penfive eve, with lonesome pace The cloifter's moonlight-chequer'd floor to trace; Nor fcorn'd to mark the fun, at mattins due, Stream through the ftoried window's holy hue.] A very beautiful paffage, and much more poetical than Tickell's, on the fame fubject: To couch at curfew-time they thought no scorn, And froze at matins every winter morn. On ber Majefty's rebuilding part of Queen's College, Oxford. V. 48. The cloifter's moonlight chequer'd floor] In L'Allegro |