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The uncertain crescent gleams a sickly light.
Through subterraneous passages they went,
Earth's inmost cells, and caves of deep descent; 50
Of many a flood they view'd the secret source,
The birth of rivers rising to their course,
Whate'er with copious train its channel fills,
Floats into lakes, and bubbles into rills;
The Po was there to see, Danubius' bed,
Euphrates' fount, and Nile's mysterious head.
Further they pass, where ripening minerals flow,
And embryon metals undigested glow,
Sulphureous veins and living silver shine,
Which soon the parent sun's warm powers refine,
In one rich mass unite the precious store,
The parts combine and harden into ore :

Here gems break through the night with glittering
beam,

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And paint the margin of the costly stream,
All stones of lustre shoot their vivid ray,
And mix attemper'd in a various day ;
Here the soft emerald smiles of verdant hue,
And rubies flame, with sapphire's heavenly blue,
The diamond there attracts the wondrous sight,
Proud of its thousand dies and luxury of light.

1738. Et. 22.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

im mentes, et inertia corda,
gum, et sortem miseramur iniquam,
xit, vetuitque calescere flammâ
no divům, gratissima serpit
ollesque animis lene implicat æstus;
ensus, Veneris nec præmia nôrunt,
culi, aut facunda silentia linguæ:
orant lacrymas, sævosque dolores,
ta, et violentæ exordia flammæ ;

the Cambridge Collection, 1736, fol. In s also a Latin Copy of Hendecasyllables, pole; a short Copy by Thomas Ashton, the le, &c.; and there are some Greek Verses ves, the author of Miscellanea Critica.' vatum ignaræ mentes !" Virg. Æn. iv. 65. ntur inertia corda," Æn. ix. 55.

mque animo miseratus iniquam," En. vi.

divûm gratissima serpit," En. ii. 269. dulces natos, Veneris nec præmia noris?"!

Hor. Od. iv. i. 35. And Pope. Homer, b,

that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." asso, iv. 85:

quence, persuading more than speech."

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Immemor artificis c

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Scilicet ignorant, quæ flumine tinxit amaro
Tela Venus, cæcique armamentaria Divi,
Irasque, insidiasque, et tacitum sub pectore vulnus ;
Namque sub ingressu, primoque in limine Amoris
Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curæ ;
Intus habent dulces Risus, et Gratia sedem,
Et roseis resupina toris, roseo ore Voluptas:
Regibus huc faciles aditus; communia spernunt
Ostia, jamque expers duris custodibus istis
Panditur accessus, penetraliaque intima Templi.

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Tuque Oh! Angliacis, Princeps, spes optima
regnis,

Ne tantum, ne finge metum : quid imagine captus
Hæres, et mentem pictura pascis inani?
Umbram miraris: nec longum tempus, et ipsa
Ibit in amplexus, thalamosque ornabit ovantes.
Ille tamen tabulis inhians longum haurit amorem, 25
Affatu fruitur tacito, auscultatque tacentem

V. 10. "Bis flumine corpora tinguat," Ovid. Met. xii. 413.

V. 11. "
Quidquid habent telorum armamentaria cœli,"
Juv. Sat. xiii. 83.

Aspicit in fucis, pi Tanta Venus potuit

V. 12. This line, which is unmetrical, is so printed in the Cambridge Collection; and in Park's edition, without remark. The fault is probably in the author, and not in the printer; as the line is composed of two hemistichs of Virgil; Æn. xii. 336, "Iræque, Insidiæque, Dei comitatus, aguntur; " and Æn. iv. 67, 86 Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus." Or perhaps a line is omitted, which should in

tervene.

V. 14. This line is from Virgil, Æn. vi. 274 :

"Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curæ.”

Nascere, magna

Committat Pelago,

Cujus in adventum

Attolli in plausus, Incipiunt agitare Ipse animo sedeni Explorat ventos, Atque auras, atq

V. 18. "Quos dura premit custodia matrum," Hor. Ep. i. i. 22.

Intentum exultat

Incusat spes æg Latior effundi po

s calami, risumque, ruboremque pictæque in virginis ore: uit; tantus tenet error amantes.

a Dies,qua sese AUGUSTA Britanno o, patriamque relinquat amoenam ; m jam nunc tria regna secundos s, dulcique accensa furore = modos, et carmina dicunt: nim juvenis comitatur euntem atque auribus aëra captat, que astra vocat crudelia; pectus t, surgitque arrecta cupido; ra fretum, solitoque videtur lem! ontus, fluctusque morantes.

major, qua sese AUGUSTA Britanno ni totam, propriamque dicabit ;

animum picturà pascit inani," En. i. ongum tempus et ingens," &c. Virg. s ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo,"

isit pelago ratem," Hor. Od. i. iii. 11. que accensa furore," Æn. iv. 697. à qui sic comitatur euntem ?"En. vi. 863. e is from Virgil, Æn. iii. 514: ventos, atque auribus aëra captat." irg. Georg. iv. 495: "Crudelia retro Fata .138: "Laudumque arrecta cupido." ere, præque diem veniens age, Lucifer, cl. viii. 118.

mubio jungam stabili, propriamque dicabo,"

MARRIAGE OF

At citius (precor) Oh! cedas melioribus astris ;
Nox finem pompæ, finemque imponere curis
Possit, et in thalamos furtim deducere nuptam ; 45
Sufficiat requiemque viris, et amantibus umbras:
Adsit Hymen, et subridens cum matre Cupido
Accedant, sternantque toros, ignemque ministrent;
Ilicet haud pictæ incandescit imagine formæ
Ulterius juvenis, verumque agnoscit amorem.

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Sculptile sicut ebur, faciemque arsisse venustam Pygmaliona canunt: ante hanc suspiria ducit, Alloquiturque amens, flammamque et vulnera nar

rat;

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Huc mihi, Musa

Astra vides, nec

Implorata Venus jussit cum vivere signum,
Fœmineam inspirans animam; quæ gaudia surgunt,
Audiit ut primæ nascentia murmura linguæ,
Luctari in vitam, et paulatim volvere ocellos

V. 44. So in Gray's Epistle from Sophonisba :

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Pompæ finis erat. Totâ vix nocte quievi."
V. 46. On the position of the 'que,' see Burman. Virgil,
En. vi. 395.

V. 47. "Prô Venus, et tenerà volucer cum matre Cupido," Ov. Met. ix. 481.

V. 50. "Veros exponit amores," Ovid. Met. x. 439. "Veros parce profitemur amores," Ovid. Art. Am. ii. 639. V. 51. is from Ovid. Met. x. 247:

"Interea niveum mira feliciter arte

Sculpit ebur; formamque dedit, qua fœmina nasci
Nulla potest: operisque sui concepit amorem :
Virginis est veræ facies, quam vivere credas;
Et, si non obstet reverentia, velle moveri :
Ars adeo latet arte suâ. Miratur, et haurit
Pectore Pygmalion simulati corporis ignes."

V. 56. Sed parvæ murmura linguæ," Ov. Met. xii. 49.
V. 59. "Excipis amplexu, feliciaque oscula jungis,” Ov

Huc mihi, Diva Vere frui liquid