. With each bright Virtue that adorns the mind! O bid the Mufes, thine harmonious train, Who by thy aid erst humaniz'd mankind, And THOU, whofe pious and maternal care, To the smooth walks of Truth and Innocence; Where Happiness heart-felt, Contentment sweet, Philofophy divine aye hold their bleft retreat. THOU, most belov'd, most honour'd, moft rever'd! Of nature, gratitude, and friendship true, The whiles this moral thefis I pursue, a And trace the plan of goodly Nurture o'er, I bring thy modest virtues into view; And proudly boast that from thy precious store, Which erft enrich'd my heart, I drew this facred lore. Nurture, Education. And And thus, I ween, thus fhall I best repay I labour to diffuse th' important good, "That all the pious duties which we owe, "Our parents, friends, our country and our God; "The feeds of every virtue here below, "From Difcipline alone, and early Culture grow." CANTO I. ARGUMENT. b The Knight, as to PÆDIA's boufe He his young Son conveys, Is ftaid by CUSTOM; with him fights, A Gentle KNIGHT there was, whofe noble deeds O'er Fairy Land by Fame were blazon'd round: C For warlike enterprize, and sage areeds Emong the chief alike was he renown'd; • Pædia is a Greek word, fignifying Education. Areeds, counfels. VOL. IV. B Whence 裏 Whence with the marks of highest honours crown'd That port, to which the wife are ever bound, There in domestic virtue rich and great The lord, the judge, the father of the plain, From this fair union, not of fordid gain, But merit fimilar and mutual love, True fource of lineal virtue, sprung a train Of youths and virgins; like the beauteous grove, Begirt with youthful bloom the parent tree, Her Parent tree, the facred olive.] This tree grew in the Altis, or facred grove of Olympic Jupiter at Olympia, having, as the Eleans pretended, Her verdant crowns of peaceful victory, The guerdons of bold ftrength, and swift activity. So round their noble parents goodly rofe They by af Palmer fage inftructed were, Who from deep thought and studious fearch erewhile Had learnt to mend the heart, and till the human foil. V... For by cœleftial Wisdom whilom led Through all th' apartments of th' immortal mind, He view'd the secret stores, and mark'd the sted To judgment, wit, and memory affign'd; And how sensation and reflection join'd ་ To fill with images her darkfome grotte, Where variously disjointed or combin'd, pretended, been originally planted there by Hercules. It was efteemed facred, and from that were taken the Olympic crowns. See Paufanias. Eliac. and the Differtation on the Olympic games. Guerdons, rewards. e f Palmer, pilgrim. The perfon here fignified is Mr. Locke, characteriz'd by his works. Sted, place, ftation. B 2 As As reason, fancy, or opinion wrought, [thought. Their various masks they play'd, and fed her penfive VI. Alfe through the fields of Science had he stray'd With eager fearch, and fent his piercing eye Through each learn'd fchool, each philofophic fhade, Where Truth and Virtue erft were deem'd to lie; If haply the fair vagrants he mote spy, Or hear the mufic of their charming lore: His curious foul, he turn'd him to explore The facred writ of Faith; to learn, believe, adore. VII. Thence foe profefs'd of Falfhood and Deceit, Thofe fly artificers of tyranny, Aye holding up before uncertain feet 'Ne with these glorious gifts elate and vain k Alfe, alfo, further. i Mote, might. Aye, ever. 1 Ne, nor. |